Maciej Fita – Founder of Brandignity.com
[quote style=”boxed”]Spending money on dumb things when you first start pursuing an idea is probably the worst mistake I ever made. When you boot strap a business you need to…
Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads
[quote style=”boxed”]By testing them. We embrace MVP, rapid prototyping, A/B testing, and good old fashioned person to person usability testing.[/quote] Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in…
Hasalyn Harris : News Anchor and Co-Founder of Aloneinforest
[quote style=”boxed”]I’ve learned the key to happiness at work is to doing what I love. Those are often the things I’ve found I’m better at anyway.[/quote] Hasalyn Harris is a…
Meet Hasalyn Harris : News Anchor and Co-Founder of Aloneinforest
Johan Carlsson – Founder of Boomslang Instruments
[quote]”Just do it”! My philosophy is to try many ideas and then chose the best one, if there is a best one, of course.[/quote] Johan Carlsson is the Founder and…
Jerry McLaughlin – CEO of Branders.com
[quote style=”boxed”]Humility makes it possible for everyone to get what they need and keeps priorities straight. Mercy enriches the merciful and creates second chances. Discovery excites us and moves the…
Shawn Achor – Author of The Happiness Advantage
[quote style=”boxed”]I’m inspired when I feel like I am doing the things that are most meaningful. So every 90 minutes of work I try to go outside, play guitar, read…
Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com
[quote style=”boxed”]I wake up between 5:00am and 6:00am to run 12 miles, save two kittens on the way, work on restoring an 18th century painting and then eat a macrobiotic…
Daniel Carroll – Founder of Wealthfront.com
[quote style=”boxed”]Stop thinking and start doing. Think. Code. Push. Iterate. Fail. Iterate again. Fail again. Move on. Rinse and repeat. Hire smart people and don’t accept mediocrity.[/quote] When Daniel Carroll…
Jenn Lim – Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness
[quote style=”boxed”]By sketching out a vision, putting together a smart and moderately weird team that will know how to “make it happen” and executing the details (on the line of…
Meet Jenn Lim – Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness
Emily May – Co-founder of Hollaback
[quote style=”boxed”]First, I visualize what the world will look like with this new idea, and how it will create the change I’m looking for. Then, I work my buns off.[/quote]…
Talk: Brittany Laughlin – Turning What You Love Into What You Do
Here is the next video from our IdeaMensch Los Angeles event. Brittany Laughlin, the Co-founder of social media travel site gtrot talks about how she chased her passion to turn what…
Meet Talk: Brittany Laughlin – Turning What You Love Into What You Do
David Swerdloff – Co-founder of Mojingo
[quote style=”boxed”]In Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell discusses his thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors “spread just like viruses do.” He follows the growth of “word-of-mouth epidemics” triggered with the help…