David Cohen is the founder of TechStars, one of the largest and most successful startup accelerators in the world. Though he’s now seen as the go-to guy for mentorship, it wasn’t always that way. Before his TechStars days, Cohen started a company called iContact, which he calls a “graceful failure.” He says it was that [...]
For entrepreneurs who don’t have access to investors, bank loans or friends and family money, bootstrapping can be the only way to get an idea off the ground. Back in 1989 Bruce Poon Tip was one of those founders who had to rely on his own resources to start his company. With only an idea [...]
Kevin O’Connor became an entrepreneur because of two people: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The investor and co-founder of DoubleClick and several other companies says he always had an inventive nature, but his dream was to get his PhD and then work for Bell Labs. “I thought the only road to innovation was via a [...]
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