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Today's Entrepreneur: Cameron Leids

by Mitos Suson, April 15, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Not being willing to compromise

Today's Entrepreneur is Cameron Leids, President and Co-founder at Buckets. Buckets is a mobile marketplace exclusive to a college students. Their vision is to provide a safe, easy to use online service for college students to buy and sell things to each other such as tickets/ textbooks/ couches/ TV's/ etc. Each University will have their own feed that you need a ...

Today's Entrepreneur: David Jacoby

by Mitos Suson, April 14, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Don't let "perfect" be the enemy of "good"

Today's Entrepreneur is David Jacoby, Founder of Hostfully. Hostfully is a platform that helps hosts in the alternative lodging industry (e.g. Airbnb, HomeAway) create guidebooks that contain essential hospitality information for their guests - a "virtual concierge". Hosts share key home-sharing information, as well as local recommendations for food, shopping, entertainment and more - on mobile, web, and in print. Jacoby is ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Amanda Brief

by Mitos Suson, April 13, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Thinking that just because you have a good idea, you're all set

Today's Entrepreneur is Amanda Karen Brief, Co-founder and CEO of my.flow. my.Flow Inc. is a women's health analytics company, working on a first-of-its-kind tampon monitor. Their product alerts its user as to the saturation level of her tampon via a notification on her phone. It takes the physical form of a small clip that the user can discreetly attach to her ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Dave Scott

by Mitos Suson, April 12, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Not treating their employees with respect

Today's Entrepreneur is Dave Scott, Founder and CEO of Laugh Radio. Laugh Radio is launching the first streaming app dedicated to stand-up comedy. The app not only allows listeners to stream comedy from professional comedians (such as Chris Rock and George Carlin), it allows emerging comedians to upload and publish comedy albums of their own. With over 15 years of marketing ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Jarie Bolander

by Mitos Suson, February 22, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Giving up to soon

Today's Entrepreneur is Jarie Bolander, Co-founder and COO at Lab Sensor Solutions, a company that specializes in IoT Sensors for the Healthcare industry. They increases patient safety while helping customers meet regulatory requirements, reduce costs and save lives. Their initial product, T-Tracks™, is a real-time ‘Sensor as a Service’ solution that monitors perishable materials, like lab samples, blood and pharmaceuticals, in transit, and alerts ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Ariel McNichol

by Mitos Suson, February 18, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Answering a market need is not enough

Today's Entrepreneur is Ariel McNichol, Founder and CEO of SmartSpark. SmartSpark is a software platform that uses personalized and adaptive visual cues to make it easier for people to learn and practice healthy habits. Our mobile app combines proven behavioral science with great design, entertainment, and peer-support to deliver dynamic, high-impact, high-production value personalized videos delivered where and when people need them most. McNichol is a ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Sachin Jain

by Mitos Suson, February 11, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Believing they need to have all the answers all the time

Today's Entrepreneur is Sachin Jain, Founder and CEO of Carrum Health. Carrum Health is transforming the way healthcare is purchased, consumed and delivered with an innovative marketplace solution. Their platform directly connects self-insured employers to high-quality, cost-efficient care providers, dramatically reducing the cost of healthcare procedures while delivering higher care quality and superior choices for employees. Jain is a successful entrepreneur and passionate ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Eric Dy

by Mitos Suson, February 8, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Underestimating the time something is going to take and trying to take on too much

Today's Entrepreneur is Eric Dy, Co-founder and CEO of Bloom Technologies. Bloom is designing the future of prenatal care with technology designed to improve the health of moms and babies. They combine wearable devices with data analytics to reassure moms and provide doctors with better information to improve birth outcomes. Dy is passionate about building mission driven companies with profit and purpose. Currently ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Tomio Daumit

by Mitos Suson, February 5, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Giving up and not believing in oneself

Today's Entrepreneur is Tomio Daumit, Co-founder of Digital Medical. Hospitals and ambulatory centers lose an average of $330 million per month in revenue, due to lost surgical equipment. There is also an average of 9 million surgical procedures cancelled each year due to scheduling errors, costing $225 billlion in revenue, that's where Digital Medical comes in. Digital Medical developed a platform that streamlines ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Saurabh Radhakrishnan

by Mitos Suson, February 3, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Building something that nobody wants

Today's Entrepreneur is Saurabh Radhakrishnan, Co-founder of GraphWear Technologies, Inc.. GraphWear has developed a real-time dehydration, glucose, and lactic acid monitor without the need for blood or urine. Our patch analyzes your sweat in a wearable form factor which pairs with your smartphone and gives actionable metrics. This is possible because of the high sensitivity of graphene, a cutting edge nanoscale material. Radhakrishnan, ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Jacqueline Morck

by Mitos Suson, February 1, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Not paying enough attention to what is actually working

Today's Entrepreneur is Jacqueline Morck, Co-founder and CEO of KeyIn, Inc.. KeyIn is a platform penetrating specialized manufacturing markets who have not had disruption from traditional sales cycles for decades. KeyIn is not a database, but an interactive community powered by verified & credible user generated content. KeyIn is the only place for all of the info people need to make smart big-ticket purchasing ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Drew Schiller

by Mitos Suson, January 29, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Ignoring market feedback

Today's Entrepreneur is Drew Schiller, Co-founder and CTO at Validic. Validic provides the industry's leading digital health platform connecting providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers, wellness companies and healthcare IT vendors to health data gathered from hundreds of in-home clinical devices, wearables and consumer healthcare applications. Reaching more than 223 million lives in 47 countries, its scalable, cloud-based solution offers one connection ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Paul Lee

by Mitos Suson, January 27, 2016

No.1 Mistake: Not listening to your end users

Today's Entrepreneur is Paul Lee, Co-founder and CEO of Curely. Curely is a constant care mobile messaging marketplace that connects doctors and consumers around the world. Based on an instant messenger technology, Curely empowers doctors to create their independent online practices, set their own session price, and provide consumers with answers synchronously and asynchronously. It also allows consumers to choose doctors by ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Pablo Abad-Manterola

by Mitos Suson, January 25, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Doing too many of the wrong things

Today's Entrepreneur is Pablo Abad-Monterola, Founder and CEO of Müvr Labs. Müvr is developing a digital platform to improve healthcare for patients undergoing knee replacements. Müvr's breakthrough wearable tracker measures key recovery metrics while a companion mobile app coaches and motivates the patient. Using a web-based dashboard, care providers can remotely monitor patients and customize therapy while simultaneously reducing healthcare costs. With ...

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