YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 16, 2016
by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. In early 2013, the team and I opened a media agency to help companies with their digital advertising goals, web development needs, and social media strategies. The Beginning.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 17, 2017
The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! and the founder of eBay and many others. And what of our most revered tech founder — Steve Jobs? Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa.
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Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.
The Next Web
MAY 23, 2015
Its history, however, has been a bumpy ride, which ended for its co-founder Oleg Gutsol last year, with him being ousted from the CEO role and the company itself. Shortly after the news hit the media, Gutsol left Canada where he’s lived since 2000 after moving from Ukraine, and he spent a few months in the Dominican Republic.
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
”, almost exactly 2 years ago to this day at Bloomberg LP’s headquarters in NYC as part of Social Media Week. Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. The TNW Startup Awards participants are nominated and voted for by the public through their preferred social media channels, although we should note there is some jury action involved as well (see below for more).
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 6, 2020
In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Yeah.
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