[quote style=”boxed”]Prioritizing and qualifying out stuff not directly related to COTAP’s success and near-term needs. Some entrepreneurs say we live and die by our ability to prioritize, others say be wary of help that you weren’t looking for and others say don’t go chasing shiny objects. It’s all the same…
Meet Tim Whitley – Founder of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty
[quote style=”boxed”]Refine your narrative. Stories are really powerful and being able to tell a good story helps you attract customers, investors and recruits.[/quote] Anthony Goldbloom is the founder and CEO of Kaggle, an innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing. Before founding Kaggle, Anthony worked in the macroeconomic modeling areas of the Reserve Bank…
[quote style=”boxed”]Read. You need to be up-to-date on the news. Things happen in a flash in the tech world and investors and other entrepreneurs expect you to be current. Read for an hour every day and get yourself up to speed on current events.[/quote] Sunil Rajaraman is the CEO and…
The majority of my inspiration comes while in the shower. It’s the one time during the day when I don’t have to think about anything, I don’t have to impress anyone and I don’t have to really do anything but shower. It’s a great time to relax and get to…
Ben Mappen is the founder and CEO of LeanLaunchLab.com, a tool that helps entrepreneurs define and test key business model assumptions using “lean startup” and customer development principles. Before LeanLaunchLab, Ben created Techcofounder.com, a site that matches entrepreneurs with technical co-founders. Ben also opened a Korean bar in Santa Clara,…
Alex Gourley is an entrepreneur and technical generalist. Before founding BitGym, he ran Loopt’s internal metrics and analytics, worked on a source-code search engine at Krugle and led a team that was building an autonomous vehicle at UC Davis. What are you working on right now? We’re trying to make…
[quote style=”boxed”]I was a paperboy, when there was such a thing. I got up at 4 AM every morning, 7 days a week, from ages 13-15 to fold and sling newspapers. Rain, cold, sick…it didn’t matter. It was rough, but it taught me many great lessons that we all need…
[quote style=”boxed”]The hardest part of bringing ideas to life is simply taking the first step. Often times, there is a tendency to keep analyzing or over-thinking an idea, therefore muddying the creative process. Thus, I always try to execute a little bit on any idea just to get something on…
Born and raised in Croatia (which was then part of Yugoslavia), Nick Bicanic’s love of computers started when he was given a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at age 8. Once he maxed out the memory on the 48k rubber keyboarded beast, Nick carried on being a normal kid. Nick represented Wales…
Nick Swinmurn first discovered his entrepreneurial spirit as a teenager when he launched a hometown bicycle club and a tennis club, while simultaneously trying to convince his parents to open a surf shop. Nick graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1996 with a degree in film. During a job at…