Category: Entrepreneur Interviews
Lucas Mendieta and Cutting Edge Elite – The Story Behind the Glamour
Lucas Mendieta’s story is unique among the array of young entrepreneur chronicles I’ve rolled out on these pages. About five and a half years ago, in his mid-20’s and without the benefit of a college degree, Mendieta launched Cutting Edge Elite, a New York City event staffing agency. He and co-founder Nathan Perry have since [...]
Interview: Rising Star Monica Berrondo from Macromoltek
Meet rising star, Monica Berrondo, with Macromoltek. She’s an inspiration and role model for blazing new trails as a scientist in biotechnology and on top of that having a computer science background that empowered her to lead the development of the software herself! You can follow Monica on the Macromoltek website and on LinkedIn. Want to [...]
Nick Taranto: Redefining the Way America Eats, with Plated
Sometimes great companies are formed in a very straightforward manner. Identify a problem, come up with a solution and then implement it. Oh wait. That’s how it works in our dreams… In real life, we all know it involves many more steps, and a bunch of unexpected twists and turns. However, once in a while, [...]
Robin Wilson Interview: The Under30CEO Entrepreneur Mashup Champion
Under30CEO is excited to present the winner of the 2013 Entrepreneur Mashup! Let’s run through some of the stats on the competition and the extraordinary involvement of readers and voters throughout the process. Competition Stats 16 entrepreneurs out of more than 100 applicants made the tournament. There were a total of over 21,000 votes in [...]
Interview: Liz King Events Takes a Risk for Success
In keeping with the theme of my last interview with In Good Company’s Adelaide Lancaster, as well as one I did a little while back with Killstress Design’s Minglie Chen, I’m profiling another small business founder – friend and colleague, Liz King. Liz’s NYC based event planning company, Liz King Events, focuses on technology integrated [...]
“Be The Change That You Want To See” – Yael Cohen of F*ck Cancer
Yael Cohen makes her mission clear: to educate and engage the youth about cancer, and how to prevent it. Just like the name of the organization, Cohen doesn’t hold anything back when it comes to executing her mission. She travels across the country speaking to people of all ages about how most forms of cancer [...]
Interview: Adelaide Lancaster Supports Women Entrepreneurs with In Good Company
I recently had an opportunity to chat with Adelaide Lancaster, co-founder of In Good Company, “a first of its kind community, business learning center, and coworking space for women entrepreneurs located in Manhattan.” When we think about entrepreneurship, we often imagine tech startups, hitting the ground running with angel funding or VC investment, then scaling [...]
118 Must See Interviews With Amazing Entrepreneurs and People
A few years ago we published a huge roundup of interviews with awesome people. Since then many of the links were broken as videos and articles had been moved and of course many new interviews have been produced. Below, we have updated all of the links, added in more recent interviews where needed and added [...]
Interview: Noa Santos and HomePolish are Making Interior Design Affordable
Every so often, I interview someone from a company that’s still in the early stages of development, but has created a truly unique business with enormous potential. Such is the case with Noa Santos, the co-founder and CEO of HomePolish. Together with company president Will Nathan, Santos has created a full service interior design firm [...]
