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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 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Rachel Fuller

by Mitos Suson, January 22, 2016

No.1 Mistake: Choosing the wrong person to work with

Today's Entrepreneur is Rachel Fuller, Co-founder and CEO of Feather. Feather is an online marketplace that helps families find, hire, and coordinate in-home senior care through a web and mobile app. Feather give families and caregivers the ability to control their relationship, which promotes more consistent care for seniors. We help seniors get great in-home and we offer caregivers more pay ...

Today's Entrepreneur: John Dymond

by Mitos Suson, January 20, 2016

No. 1 Mistake: Without great support

Today's Entrepreneur is John Dymond, Co-founder and CEO of DocDelta. DocDelta is the talent engine for healthcare. By aggregating and analyzing public and internal data, they can help healthcare organizations build and retain better workforces. Dymond is a digital healthcare entrepreneur and start-up vet. He got his degree in Marketing and Management last 2001 in Oxford Brookes University and he graduated last 2013 ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Matthew Nicholson

by Mitos Suson, January 18, 2016

No.1 Mistake: Giving up

Today's Entrepreneur is Matthew Nicholson, 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 the ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Eldar Razroev

by Mitos Suson, October 10, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Overestimation during initial planning

Today's Entrepreneur is Eldar Razroev, Co-founder at Aeroxo. Aeroxo is a new generation long range aerial robotics and data gathering platform. The use of tilt-rotor technology enables Aeroxo unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to combine the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft. Razroev is a serial entrepreneur. He was previously ...

Today's Entrepreneur: David Hini-Szlos

by Mitos Suson, October 9, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Just using their opinion and not thinking outside of the box

Today's Entrepreneur is David Hini-Szlos, Co-founder and CEO at Hinter App. Hinter has created the newest medium for people to create and interact with content. Comedians are masters of content delivery, by separating the joke from the punchline, Hinter transforms this delivery into a digital format to delight people on their phones. Hinter has created a new medium to create and interact with ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Gabriel D. Kruse

by Mitos Suson, October 8, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Never googling to see what the landscape of the market they are entering

Today's Entrepreneur is Gabriel Kruse, Founder and CEO at Duul. DuuL is the first solution that allows video gamers of all skill levels to compete for money and prizes by playing the games they love in a Cheater-free competition platform available on any gaming device and every game. Kruse is a former foster youth turned College wrestler, turned drop-out. He grabbed ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Michael Won

by Mitos Suson, October 7, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Underestimating the impact launching a startup has on one's family

Today's Entrepreneur is Michael Won, Co-founder at 8/omakase. 8/omakase is a made to measure clothing service for men. o·ma·ka·se is a term often used in sushi restaurants where the customer entrusts the chef to serve as he sees best. It's an incredible experience that allows for the customer to explore new tastes, gives the chef creative license to be brilliant, and relieves the burden of ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Patrick Aylward

by Mitos Suson, October 6, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Building a solution to a problem that is perceived and not real

Today's Entrepreneur is Patrick Aylward, Co-founder and COO at RemitRight. RemitRight is a comparison platform for international money transfers, the KAYAK for remittances. They compare online money transfer operators, revealing hidden fees and exchange mark-ups for their predominantly immigrant users. They also provide information on other remittance preferences such as send and receive method and transfer time. Aylward is an engineer and ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Katharine Vanderdrift

by Mitos Suson, October 5, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Not talking to users and having user data loss in the beginning

Today's Entrepreneur is Katharine VanderDrift, Co-founder and Software Developer at Healthiest, Inc. Healthiest, Inc. is a natural medicine cabinet. They are the definitive, natural, integrative and alternative health resource, empowering consumers with information and connecting them to treatments, remedies, products, and health practices. VanderDrift is a developer base in San Francisco with 4 years experience in Search Engine Optimization and Growth. She ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Muris Mulalic

by Mitos Suson, October 1, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: They do not trust their intuition on decision making

Today's Entrepreneur is Muris Mulalic, Founder and CEO at MyGymPals. MyGymPals is the easiest way to find a local workout buddy. Consider this a dating app, meetup app, and social networking app all rolled into one. People will be able to find a workout partner, join pickup games, find a location to meet, and share their unique experiences. Their story began with Mulilac ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Dave Whelan

by Mitos Suson, September 30, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Biting off more than they can chew

Today's Entrepreneur is Dave Whelan, Co-founder at STEMP, Inc. STEMP (Smart Temperature Patch) is the thermometer that never sleeps, so you and your family can. The STEMP sensor, medical-grade adhesives, and smartphone apps work together seamlessly to provide immediate, accurate, continuous body temperature measurement. Think of it as the thermometer meets the band-aid. Whelan is a Strategy Consultant and Advisor, ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Eric Kim

by Mitos Suson, September 29, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Being too reactionary throughout the day

Today's Entrepreneur is Eric Kim, Co-founder and CEO at RushOrder. RushOrder enables users to order the most popular food from the most popular restaurants - initially focusing on previously unaddressed categories of authentic Asian cuisine. By implementing a data-driven methodology to continuously refine and curate both restaurant selection, as well as menu item offerings, their focus is on building a truly food discovery-centered ...

Today's Entrepreneur: Pavan Kumar

by Mitos Suson, September 28, 2015

No. 1 Mistake: Not concentrating on their product market fit

Today's Entrepreneur is Pavan Kumar, Co-founder and CTO at Cocoon Cam. Cocoon Cam is a patent pending non-invasive video monitor and phone application duo that provides parents information about the baby's sleeping position, skin temperature, and respiration patterns. Key benefits parents will receive visual and measured reassurance that their baby is safe and well. Kumar is a graduate of ComSci at ...

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