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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com. and Half.com.

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Student Startups: How To Launch Your Business While In College

YoungUpstarts

When we look at successful startups we often focus on how the company has been successful with their end products or services but we often ignore what the founders went through and did to be successful. College is one of the best places for a business startup where you can be mentored and meet equally ambitious co-founders.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. He graduated from Stanford University and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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Five College Startups That Help Others

YoungUpstarts

Founder Josh Weingart started WaterDrop Shop while enrolled at Illinois State University. Founder Jaijeet Kakkar is a college student at UC Riverside but co-founded Imprue while still in high school. Founder Ben Lewis started the company while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Represent with Imprue.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. I immediately liked what I saw.

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ConnectYard Integrates Social Media Into School Communications

YoungUpstarts

ConnectYard solutions bridge the gap between students and the institutions that serve them,” says co-founder and CEO Donald Doane, who also founded web systems provider OpenDemand Systems.