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Why Solving Big Food & Healthcare Problems Will Yield Spectacular Companies

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When we met Shireen (CEO) and Scott (Co-founder & CTO) in late 2014 they had been inspired to create Nima to address their own personal food issues and empower other people to live their healthiest lives. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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Learning is Fun with Two Bit Circus’ STEAM Carnival

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starting in Spring of 2014. We’ve found that high-tech games spark curiosity about engineering and science so we created the STEAM Carnival to inspire the next generation of inventors,” said CTO and Co-founder, Eric Gradman.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). What is Beatshare? That's how Barry came in.

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Carving Pathways for Learning, Vince Leung of MentorMob

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Today, we have Vince Leung, co-founder and operating CTO of MentorMob. We were invited after winning a business competition in Chicago.” ” Look for a mid-year 2014 launch but first, a presentation at this year’s SXSW Interactive Accelerator competition. How we got the invite? ” What’s Next?

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

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Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. we were sold on the concept immediately.

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