Cybersecurity is one of the greatest issues of our generation. With so much of our lives online, we are only as safe as our data: our Instagram accounts, Lyft profiles, and Google searches. And at the end of the day, our passwords are the only barrier between us and the cyber criminals who…
The fanfare for 3D printers has ebbed and flowed over the years, but never quite breaking into the mainstream. A lot of this has to do with no true, flexible 3D printer product. Ethan Baehrend, an 18-year-old entrepreneur and CEO of Creative 3D Technologies, points to a stagnant 3D printing market that doesn’t have…
Nick Hamburger is a good egg. At just 21, he’s whip smart ready to scale his healthy-snack startup into the next big food brand. Quevos is a snack chip made from egg whites. “It’s a combination of the words quick and huevo,” Nick says. “Spanglish for ‘quick huevos.’ Eggs on the go. They’re…
A lot of wellness apps out there seem to be missing one very important ingredient: doctors. When you’re dealing with something as critical as health, it’s not enough to create an app that offers a temporary fix, or leaves users browsing aimlessly for medical answers. There needs to be a clinical professional to…
Colum Donahue’s IT management company Genuity is built on a simple concept: the less you understand, the more you par. The market is designed that way, says Colum, Genuity’s co-founder. Telecom service providers and SaaS companies, for example, often profit from keeping customers in the dark. Labyrinthine contracts with incomprehensible pricing structures, surcharges,…
Death: it’s a universal part of life. But grieving is complicated. For the deceased’s immediate family, it often means making difficult, expensive decisions during their darkest days. For the rest of us, it’s hard to know what to do, what to say, how to help. Funeral traditions and customs vary widely between…
Most founders don’t realize that startup success takes a lot of work –– and a whole lot of crazy. You’ve got to find your path to revenue: provide what customers want, make it convenient, keep them coming back. To grow, you sell your business to investors, but you have to prove you’re making money for…
Tech startups are increasingly cloud-native. Companies of every kind are migrating their data and ops to maximize efficiency, security and agility with cloud-based services. But what about businesses that have been around for 50, or even 150, years? There are banks, insurers and government agencies whose legacy technology is older than most of…
One of the main takeaways from the book I’m listening to right now, Jim Collins’ Good to Great, is that the vast majority of innovative companies –– the ones that are exponentially outperforming the market –– have leadership born from within the company. They haven’t brought in a hired gun, a superhero solver of problems,…
When BenchPrep co-founders Ashish Rangnekar and Ujjwal Gupta uploaded their first app, a GMAT test-prep product, to the then-new App Store in 2009, they never imagined it would become a multi-million-dollar business. In fact, they didn’t think of it as a business at all, evidenced by what they filled in under “Company Name” on…