K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. The professor would write on something that resembled a whiteboard. You couldn’t read it. That was supposed to be the best way for me to learn?

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. The dearth of trained computer science and engineering is crippling the growth of many Innovation Economy companies.

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