CEO of KarChing. Teens, parents and car insurers don’t agree on much. But they do agree that dangerous and expensive car accidents are bad. KarChing CEO Ramsey Gouda figured that insurers and parents would be willing to pay some money upfront to reduce the risk of teen car accidents. The KarChing app uses telematics (or…
Toi Valentine and Kayla Carey. Childcare has been an issue for ages — possibly since caveman days, but we’re still getting it wrong. Daycares tend to offer only multi-hour stretches, so parents are out of luck if you only need supervision for Junior for an hour or two here and there. Nannies and babysitters don’t…
Most childcare providers only offer care for relatively long chunks of time — think four hours or more. For parents, it’s hard to find affordable options for an hour or two to take a break or run errands. Nannies and stay-at-home parents who want to earn extra money looking after other people’s children struggle…
Aside from founders telling you that their company is their baby, families don’t often figure into the mythology of the tech startup. One simple reason is that many of the people who are focusing on family life are not in the office: they’re at home with said family. And while some of them are happy…
When you’re building a company, you’ll be given lots of free advice. But your success might actually hinge on knowing which advice to ignore. In the case of Desiree Vargas Wrigley, that would be the old adage about never working with children or animals. While she has yet to turn her focus to the latter,…