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Today's Entrepreneur: Esther Dyson

by Kristin Karaoglu, December 19, 2018

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It's amazing to be part of a team that works together and does so much more than any individual does

Today's entrepreneur is Esther Dyson. In 2013 Esther co-founded Wellville - a national nonprofit project to demonstrate the value of investing in health - to generate real-world evidence by supporting multi-sector teams in five U.S. communities over 10 years. After this ambitious and lofty endeavor, she hopes to inspire other communities and promote national change. Wellville supports its communities the way a business ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Joe Du Bey

by Kristin Karaoglu, November 29, 2018

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The early team defines the later team; be selective and consistent across values and talent

Today's entrepreneur is Joe Du Bey. Joe is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eden. Eden is a platform for office management, with a mission to create a better place to work, for everyone. Eden's services include office cleaning, administrative help, IT support, handyman services, and snacks. Joe has experience in company building, startup investing, growth stage investing, and M&A ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Matthew Kropp

by Kristin Karaoglu, November 21, 2018

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Making progress requires relentless pushing while also realizing that progress takes time

Today's entrepreneur is Matthew Kropp, co-founder and CEO of FR8Star. FR8Star.com is a booking and dispatch platform for carriers and shippers moving heavy haul and open deck loads.We have streamlined the entire booking and dispatch process from end-to-end. Matthew is passionate about digital innovation and building high-performing teams. He spent the first 10 years of career as entrepreneur building digital businesses in ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Emi Gal

by Steven Loeb, November 15, 2018

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The quality of the startup is directly proportional with the quality of the team

Today's Entrepreneur is Emi Gal, co-founder and CEO of Ezra, a company that uses AI to screen for cancer. Emi started his first company, Brainient, when was was 19 and spent the following 10 years building it into one of the leading ad-tech companies in Europe. Brainient was acquired by Teads in September 2016 and he then spent two years ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Richard Hamilton

by Kristin Karaoglu, November 7, 2018

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Don't underestimate the amount of time, money, energy that will be required to fulfill your vision

Today's entrepreneur Richard Hamilton, president and CEO at Prosper eDNA. Experienced Richard is an entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building teams, companies and products. Richard is experienced in biotechnology entrepreneur with a passion for science-based solutions to longevity, nutrition, fitness, and mindfulness. He loves bridging research and business innovation to develop and deploy products that change lives. Richard combines a background in ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Rephael Sweary

by Steven Loeb, November 2, 2018

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It is my belief that entrepreneurship is not a job, it’s your being

Today's entrepreneur is Rephael Sweary, co-founder and president of digital adoption platform WalkMe. WalkMe enables all online publishers and ISVs to create interactive on-screen 'Walk-Thrus' that assist end-users to quickly and easily complete even the most complex tasks. Previously, Rephael was the co-founder, CEO and then president of Jetro Platforms, which was acquired in 2007. Since then, he has funded and ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Peter Colis

by Steven Loeb, October 31, 2018

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The most rewarding thing about entrepreneurship is building an A+ team

Today's entrepreneur is Peter Colis, the CEO and co-founder of Ethos. Ethos, just raised $35 million in Series B funding, is a new kind of life insurance built for people who don't have time for fine print, extra doctors appointments or hidden fees. Ethos uses the power of technology and predictive analytics to modernize the life insurance process and align products with what ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Heath Silverman

by Kristin Karaoglu, October 30, 2018

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Set regular, clear and measurable goals; Trust your instincts

Today's entrepreneur is Heath Silverman, Co-founder and the CEO of Stessa. Stessa is a SaaS platform to track, manage, and communicate the performance of real estate assets. After nearly 20 years as a part-time real estate investor with a full-time job in the technology industry, Heath was inspired to build a scalable technology solution to streamline the entire real estate ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Pouria Mojabi

by Kristin Karaoglu, October 24, 2018

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Personal growth is the only constant, everything else changes

Today's entrepreneur is Pouria Mojabi. Pouria is Co-Founder of Supportiv. Supportiv is an NLP-driven support network that matches concurrent users based on their free-text answer to "What's your struggle?" for real-time group peer support with a human moderator (psych students). NLP also used to surface content/service referrals within group chat. The company recently presented at SplashX Invent Health: Mental and Behaviral ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Francis Pedraza

by Steven Loeb, October 18, 2018

	The first lesson is to take care of myself Today's entrepreneur is Francis Pedraza, CEO of Invisible. Invisible is a company pioneering the global digital assembly line by creating a single bot that enables people to outsource their work and add more time into their day. Pedraza founded Invisible in 2015 with an idea to give people a way to spend more time focusing on the work that matters so ...
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Today's Entrepreneur: Helena Plater-Zyberk

by Kristin Karaoglu, October 15, 2018

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Nothing will ever being given to you; Everything is earned

Today's entrepreneur is Helena Plater-Zyberk. Helena is Co-Founder of Supportiv, a jaw-droppingly affordable mental wellness solution featuring hyper-targeted digital peer support with live moderation, and real-time recommendations and referrals to the wider digital health ecosystem. The company recently presented at SplashX Invent Health: Mental and Behaviral Health event in June 2018. See Helena's presentation here. We also featured Supportiv in our new ...

Today's entrepreneur: Allie Sutton

by Steven Loeb, October 11, 2018

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I want to change the world

Today's entrepreneur is Allie Sutton, co-founder and CEO of June.ai, a communication hub for your digital world. Allie Sutton is currently CEO and co founder at June.ai, the company behind June, the artificial intelligence assistant that replaces email. He is a husband and father of two. He was previously co founder and Managing Partner at Conscious Equity Ventures, and founder and CEO ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Allen Tsai

by Kristin Karaoglu, October 5, 2018

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Hire people who are smarter than you and empower them to do their best work

Today's entrepreneur is Allen Tsai. Allen is the founder of Pani, a smart-home company building products that help consumers and utilities measure, monitor, and recycle water. He started Pani with the inspiration of his experience building water wells in Nepal. With a background in IoT, Allen took lessons from a lifetime of water conservation to usher in the convergence of tech & water sustainability. ...

Today's Entrepreneur: David Wenger

by Steven Loeb, October 3, 2018

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The doubts of others will be just another obstacle that can stand in the way if you let it

Today's entrepreneur is David Wenger, the Founder & CEO of Bridge Connector, an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that delivers streamlined integration solutions for healthcare organizations which he founded in 2017. Based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, he started the company so that healthcare organizations could automatically transfer data between disparate systems, via a seamless solution. Previously, David served ...

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