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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Kids from eight countries, including Cambodia, Eastern DR Congo, and Afghanistan, have participated in Dot-to-Dot projects.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. My goal was to become an astronaut.

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Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die

Steve Blank

The A-7 had been shot down over Cambodia. I hung back until one of my fellow techs said, “Lets go find out what the party is about.”. We walked over and quickly found out it wasn’t a party – it was more like a funeral. And as we found out later, the pilot wasn’t ever coming home. An empty place on the flight line. It’s Not a Game.

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