Founder Interview: Amanda Szabo, founder and CEO, ResortPass

Building a successful business is hardly as fun as a day at the pool, though for Amanda Szabo, that’s how hers got started. The founder and CEO of Santa Monica’s...

Founder Interview: Guillermo Gette, co-founder and CEO, Workast

Babies have played a pivotal role in the life and career of Workast co-founder and CEO Guillermo Gette. It was his parents’ baby-product store back home in Buenos Aires, Argentina,...

Founder Interview: Daniel Kim & Jay Lee, AuditBoard

If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos,...

Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft

Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...

Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate

  Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...

Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark

If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...

How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data

  By William Hsu The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post...

Encyclopedias are moving to the blockchain. Everipedia, joined by Wikipedia’s co-founder, is leading the charge.

Mucker portfolio company Everipedia, the “encyclopedia of everything,” announced today that it is creating the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, and that Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger has joined...

5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph

by Erik Rannala Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas...

5 Tactics for Improving Startup Culture

Guest post by Gaurav Bhattacharya, CEO and co-founder at Involve. “Culture” is a set of norms and beliefs commonly shared by a group of people that give them a sense...

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