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…
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,…
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…
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…
Millennials are accused of “killing” a lot of stuff –– home ownership, diamonds, cereal. Dressing up for work is another casualty. Most workplace dress codes are some version of casual, if they exist at all. But there are still plenty of people who can’t wear hoodies to work. And lots of guys up…
A home is probably the biggest thing you’ll ever buy –– or sell. Unfortunately, the process of doing either is notoriously stressful, fragmented, and clunky. So we rely on brokers to navigate it –– for a hefty commission. Is this industry ripe for disruption? Kyle Stoner thinks so. With a background in investment…
Tap that. Nick Anastasiades, Jonathan Elron, and Arik Gaisler’s company 2ndKitchen is also the second business they’ve started together. Their previous venture, SF-based “quintessential startup” RedPie, billed itself as the “Uber for pizza,” using a supply optimization model called “spread sourcing” to deliver pies in record time. It was a “quintessential startup,”…
Katy Lynch, the co-founder and CMO of Codeverse, has a straightforward but audacious mission: teach one billion kids to code. “No big deal. And once we get to a billion, maybe two billion,” she laughs. Just two years on from its launch, Codeverse is well on its way. If anyone can do it,…
Gaming is about to get a lot more interesting. Ultra, a blockchain-based gaming platform, is set for its public launch by mid-2019. Through its publishing platform and marketplace, the company is hoping to put “an end to the current distribution monopoly by providing new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers,” according to…