Arram Sabeti is the founder of ZeroCater, a startup that makes it easy for companies to feed their employees. Arram became obsessed with tech startups when he was 20 years old and as an experiment, he decided to totally commit to the goal of building a successful technology company. He…
[quote style=”boxed”]Talk to people about your product or service. I’m not talking about the elevator pitch as much as about getting real customer feedback. Figure out what works, what doesn’t work and iterate. It’s easy as an entrepreneur to protect your idea from others, however your idea is merely an idea…
Meet Brenton Gieser – Co-Founder of JoynIn and Be Social Change
[quote style=”boxed”]I try to think about who are the end users, how would they like to use what I build and why will they use it in the first place. It helps me focus before I start to code. Once I write my code, I use a quick prototyping approach…
Meet Anirban Banerjee – Co-Founder and Technical Lead at StopTheHacker
[quote style=”boxed”]With an enormous canvas. I’m a visual thinker, so most of the things we discuss start on a whiteboard, a big table or an enormous sheet of paper.[/quote] Steve Davis is the COO & co-founder of CruiseWise, the web’s most advanced source of cruise knowledge. Cruises are America’s last…
[quote style=”boxed”]I get up early and work until dinner. There is no typical day, and I love that. Some days I code. Others, I balance the bank accounts. Others, I try to track down a pesky bug. It’s different every day.[/quote] Greg Scown is co-founder of Smile. He grew up in…
[quote style=”boxed”]Mostly I try to get through correspondence in the first hour of the workday, so the rest is available to focus on tasks that need a good deal of concentration and minimal interruption.[/quote] Philip Goward founded Smile with Greg Scown in 2003. Smile makes productivity software for the Mac, iPhone and…
[quote]I block off time in the morning and in the evening to do email; typically 1 hour each.I have meeting days and non-meeting days. When possible, I try to cram all of my meetings into particular days to maximize efficiency. There are days in which I have 30 minute Skype…
[quote]Testing ideas we think will work and iterating as many times as we need to until we get it right.[/quote] As co-founder and CEO of GetHired.com, Suki Shah is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded his first company in 2008. Statacor Biosciences, a disease management company specializing in nutritional therapy and…
[quote style=”boxed”]Great ideas deserve time, focus, criticism and iteration.[/quote] Josh Nesbit is the CEO of Medic Mobile, a nonprofit company using low-cost, mobile technology to create health systems that save more lives. Josh also founded Hope Phones, a recycling campaign designed to engage millions of Americans in global health efforts….
[quote style=”boxed”]Wake up early.[/quote] Garrett Gee is a Co-Founder and engineer at Scan.me. Scan.me creates web and mobile experiences and tools that enable both enterprise and individuals to benefit from mobile transaction technologies (QR Codes, NFC, and more). These benefits include mobile web pages, mobile commerce, social media, lead generation,…