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Carrie Stalder: Part of the Solution

Carrie Stalder is the founding manager of Venture Café, a currently prototyping Cambridge-based café seeking to create fresh and useful conversations among Boston’s entrepreneurial and innovation communities. Carrie explained to us the idea …

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Travis Alber: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Travis Alber is the co-founder of BookGlutton, an online startup changing the way people read and interact with books on the web. Travis explained to us what makes BookGlutton different from other online/mobile …

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Rajeev Malik: From Lawyer to Entrepreneur

Rajeev Malik is the co-founder of KikScore, a great venture that allows small businesses to prove to customers that they have a solid track record and are reliable and trustworthy vendors. Raj explained …

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Karine Moulin: Be My Own Boss

Karine Moulin is the founder of Private PAs, a personal assistant business. Karine told us how relocating from France to New York led her venture to flourish:

Three years ago I was a flight …

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Florence Toffa: A Believer in Small Beginnings

Florence Toffa is the founder of Myfashionafrica.com, a web portal where women can find a wide variety of African clothing and African beads, and also read about the designers who produce these items. …

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Mandee Widrick: Bigger Ideas than the Average Person

Mandee Widrick is the founder of Horse Family, an online magazine for equestrians, as well as the newly-launched marketing company ChargedUp. This 21-year-old entrepreneur told us why she chose to take …

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Vanessa Komisar: A Different Outlook

Vanessa Komisar is the founder of Metamorphosis, a great venture that provides unique and affordable clothing by taking older items and completely redesigning them into something new. These one-of-a-kind, hand-sewn pieces have been …

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STORY

Neil Capel: It Comes With Risk

Neil Capel is the founder of Sailthru, an email outsourcing service that operates based on the idea of “You Communicate, We Deliver.” Neil explained to us how he started this venture based on …

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Bob Cavezza: Risks That Aren’t Too Risky

Bob Cavezza is the founder of Smarter Football, an effective online recruiting program for high school football players. Bob told us how switching from a service to a product made all the differece:

It’s …

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Jared O’Toole: No Turning Back

Jared O’Toole is the co-founder of Under30CEO, an online community encouraging young people to think outside of the cubicle. As they claim on their site, they are “leading Gen Y to stop doing …

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Steve Alberts: Drive is the Difference

Steve Alberts is the founder of RaffleDog, an online venture that holds weekly raffles for local and national companies. Steve told us how his childhood helped him in shaping his business idea:

As I …

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Gyula Borbely: Answering the Phone on Sundays

Gyula Borbely is the co-founder of BodyTrace, a weight loss management system for professionals and individuals alike. BodyTrace created the eScale, a regular bathroom scale that connects to the web and transmits your …

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Ashley Bodi: The Customer is Not Always Right

Ashley Bodi is the co-founder of Business Beware, an online forum for small businesses. With Business Beware, the customer is not always right, and businesses finally have an outlet for reporting and sharing …

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STORY

Jordan Gottlieb: Drink Lots of Coffee

Jordan Gottlieb is the founder of Go Green Fundraising, an outlet for alternative fundraising items providing groups with products that are all natural, organic, healthy, and earth friendly, instead of sugary, fattening, and …

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Tarikh Korula: Business School in the Real World

Tarikh Korula is the co-founder of Uncommon Projects, a software and hardware design studio that offers a range of services to help brands find a unique solution to their tough technical problems. Tarikh …

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Marissa Evans: Fashion 2.0

Marissa Evans is the founder of Go Try It On, a social networking website in the fashion 2.0 space that allows you to give and get advice on your outfit. Marissa told us …

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John Murch: Launch, Iterate, Launch, Iterate

John Murch is the co-founder of Ublanket, an online venture that creates custom-made memory blankets from old t-shirts. John explained to us how philanthropy is the principle behind Ublanket:

I co-founded Ublanket with someone …

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Gustavo Hernando: For the Visual Eater

Gustavo Hernando is the founder of DaFoodie.com, a web-based venture based around the idea that people are more likely to visit a restaurant if they see the food, rather than simply read a …

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John Boyd: An Idea Man

John Boyd is the founder and CEO of MeetingWave, a web startup based on the principles of connecting you with the people you need or want to know, all the …

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Angela Kantarellis: Small Spaces, Big Lives

Angela Kantarellis is the founder of AK Organizing, the self-proclaimed office organizing experts. Additionally, she has recently launched The Manhattan Millionaires Group, a forum for business owners and entrepreneurs. Angela, a …

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Tiago Veloso: I Can Do Better!

Tiago Veloso is the founder of Soapy Ridez, a South Africa-based mobile carwash and valet service. This young entrepreneur (Tiago is only 23!) told us about his lifelong passion for cars and …

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Seth Cantor: Running Into a Brick Wall

Seth Cantor is the founder of FanRates, a service that benefits both teams/venues and sports fans by providing discounted tickets to games and events. Aside from making it easier for fans to watch …

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Adam Erlebacher: Bringing Transparency to the Entertainment World

Adam Erlebacher is the co-founder of PlaceVine, a web-based matchmaking and brand integration service that connects content producers with marketers to facilitate sponsorships and product placements across various media channels. Adam told us …

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Jason Meinzer: Why Not?

Jason Meinzer is the COO and co-founder of CityRyde, the self-proclaimed bike sharing experts. He explained to us how he got his big idea while studying abroad:

CityRyde was conceived while I was studying …

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Ray Bernaz: Fulfilling A Personal Need

Ray Bernaz is the founder and CEO of Socialibrium, a simplified and automated relationship management tool. It allows you to manage every point of contact you have, whether an email, phone call, text …

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