Tag: interviews
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: Shama Kabani and the Timely Success of the Marketing Zen Group
When Shama Kabani graduated with a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, Facebook’s popularity was just coming up on that of MySpace, and Twitter was still the new kid on the block. Social media was a nascent field, ripe for someone with her intelligence and drive to [...]
Interview: Brandon Craft Gets Innovative at Clinvue
Brandon Craft is the Head of Research and Design for Clinvue, a medical device innovation company based out of Westminster, MD. Trained at Virginia Tech as an industrial designer, he founded the consultancy firm in 2010 along with his two partners, fellow industrial designer and mechanical engineer, Paul Fearis and surgeon Dr. Jonathan Sackier. Informed [...]
Eight More NYC Young Entrepreneurs to Keep an Eye On!
Continuing on with a review of the awesome young NYC entrepreneurs I’ve interviewed over the past several months, I’m happy to share this second half of my list with you. Once again, I was struck by the diversity in ideas and vision that continue to make New York such a vibrant and exciting city to [...]
Viraj Puri and Gotham Greens – The Great Taste of Urban Agriculture
Did you know that the first commercial scale hydroponic rooftop farm in the country is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn? Gotham Greens is the brainchild of CEO Viraj Puri and Co-Founder Eric Haley along with Greenhouse Director Jennifer Nelkin. With 20 full-time employees, this 15,000 sq foot state-of-the-art, climate controlled greenhouse facility produces over 100 tons [...]
Mikhail Naumov and the GREEN Team – Creating a Global Clean Tech Workforce
The Global Renewal Renewal Energy Education Network (GREEN) is an innovative program that exposes students and young professionals to renewable energy technologies in Costa Rica. It was created in 2009 by three Rutgers University students, Mikhail Naumov, Melissa Lee and Ben Lapidus, together with a visionary sustainable architecture engineer from that country. Concerned with the [...]
Balazs Alexa and DateMySchool.com – Helping Students Find the Right Dates
What do you get when two Columbia Business School grad students apply their tech and business savvy to the age old problem of finding the right girl to date? You get DateMySchool.com. Co-founders Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer got the idea for this innovative online dating service for college students and alumni, when they realized [...]
Alex Torrenegra’s Secret to Success – Surround Yourself with Amazing People
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Alex Torrenegra, the founder of Torrenegra Labs, a suite of online marketplaces and companies. Part development laboratory, part accelerator, Torrenegra Labs has overseen the creation and or development of 16 different companies, in fields ranging from travel and booking to voice-over talent and translation services. Born into [...]
Lily Liu and PublicStuff: Transforming How We Talk to Local Governments
Sometimes a new technology has the power to transform an entire sector. This is what co-founders Lily Liu and Vincent Polidoro are working to do with their company, PublicStuff. Their powerful product uses internet and mobile phone technology to facilitate local and state government’s ability to respond efficiently to citizen issues and concerns ranging from [...]
Under30CEO Welcomes Deborah Pannell: Exploring New York’s Entrepreneurs
I can think of nothing more thrilling than starting your own business. In some ways, it’s as risky and exciting as jumping out of an airplane, having a baby, or getting married. In fact, anyone who has started their own company knows that the experience contains elements of all three! So when Jared and Matt [...]
