[quote style=”boxed”]Ideas are a dime a dozen. Success in business is rarely about the idea – and mostly about the execution of that idea.[/quote] Isaac Garcia is the CEO & Co-founder of Central Desktop. The company is the provider of the cloud-based collaboration software Central Desktop, which revolutionizes how people connect…
[quote style=”boxed”]I find people who like to do things and do things with them.[/quote] Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced “keep”), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a “moments”-based…
[quote style=”boxed”]A drop-dead simple way to schedule meetings that doesn’t require all the usual back and forth. Let me know if you have a solution, that’s even more simple than what’s out there and maybe I’ll introduce you to some angel investors![/quote] Greg Tseng co-founded Tagged in October 2004 and…
[quote style=”boxed”]Hard work, an understanding that there will be a lot of failures along the way and you can’t let that stop you, and having a great team surrounding us![/quote] Nikhil Arora:A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Nikhil is a May 2009 summa cum laude graduate of the University of California,…
Meet Nikhil Arora + Alejandro Velez: Founders of Back to the Roots
[quote style=”boxed”]Dream it, build an amazing team and culture of people with different skill sets to build the best product and inspire others to believe in the vision. Momentum is key.[/quote] Nathan Lands is the Co-Founder of Gamigy. He began his journey as an entrepreneur at the age of 15…
Larry Chiang believes that engineers should not let engineers graduate without street smarts. He studied engineering and now mentors undergrads at Stanford. He helps Stanford CS majors host parties at SXSW, gets undergrads to sell print advertising to tech bloggers and helped StartX connect up with tech blogs to mentors undergrad…
I’m a big believer in iteration. Sometimes great ideas have intrinsic value, but usually an idea needs execution to give it value. Execution generally is not done in one big burst, but rather in many small, successive strides. Iterating on an idea allows you to collect data and feedback, which…
[quote style=”boxed”]I’ve learned now in retrospect that when you have a good idea and an itch to work on it, it’s important to just do it — and to release early and often.[/quote] Sachin Rekhi is founder of Connected, a professional contact manager that brings your contacts together in one…
Court Crandall, Executive Creative Director at WDCW, talks about how to make a movie that matters at IdeaMensch Los Angeles. Mario SchulzkeMario Schulzke is the Founder of ideamensch, which he started a decade ago to learn from entrepreneurs and give them a platform for their ideas. ideamensch.com/
[quote style=”boxed”]Cultural Capital. I’ve been working to develop a creative strategy approach and form of measurement which places the focus of success for a brand, not on it’s isolated equity, but it’s relevance in culture. The more and more choices that are available to consumers and the more fragmented the…