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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. And we’re sure Zuckerberg, who still looks and dresses like a college sophomore, is only just getting started. Insomnia Cookies.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. Erika Reinhardt who is on the core team but has also mobilized and worked with multiple other projects. Tiffany Ho who is leading that effort on the dashboard that Jen's mentioning for Pennsylvania. A lot of it is similar.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Content Consumption Competitive Analysis. + #OMG Mobile, Where's Mobile Data! How does any tool have access to your website or mobile app data? OMG Mobile, Where's Mobile Data! This past thanksgiving 52% of all online traffic was mobile per IBM. You can segment that data by desktop or mobile.

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