Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 20, 2020
Some food banks saw demand 3-4x normal, just as their volunteer base shrunk due to worries about COVID-19 infection. Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry.
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
“Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So Feed a need.
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www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Detroit ›. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Detroit Events ›. New York ›.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Founder CEO Erin Rose answered some questions about her company’s work. Also, far too many lives of my former classmates, friends, and family members have been disrupted, and their educations and careers interrupted, due to sexual violence. I wanted to do something about this. I was harassed daily, no matter what route I took.
Haystack
JULY 20, 2018
I believe this is an important post for both founders and investors in the Bay Area and outside the Bay Area to read carefully. Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. A blog entry for another day.
venturebeat.com
JULY 12, 2012
VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. ” “I think the number one reason I love Microsoft is we have a living founder and chairman who’s dedicated his life to making the world better,” Sood said.
Up and Running
AUGUST 6, 2014
An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.
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