May 22, 2014
Deena Varshavskaya is the Founder and CEO of Wanelo (a contraction of Want, Need, Love), a social shopping platform used by millions of people to find and buy products they love.
Deena hails from Siberia, and she launched Wanelo in 2010 after realizing how frustrated she was with the traditional shopping experience in...
May 21, 2014
David Cohen is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Techstars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment firm. In this discussion from the Startup Grind 2014 global conference, David discusses the role and responsibilities of mentors, the importance of building and maintaining strong relationships, and what he looks...
May 21, 2014
Charles Huang founded Red Octane in 1999 along with his brother, Kai. Humble but incredibly tenacious, constantly bootstrapping and never taking VC funding, Charles guided Red Octane through many pivots to become the company responsible for Guitar Hero, one of the top video game franchises of all time. Guitar Hero...
May 21, 2014
Alex Ljung launched SoundCloud in 2008, and today an average of 12 hours of audio is uploaded to their site every minute. In this discussion from Startup Grind's 2013 global conference, Alex discusses the democratization of creativity, how to be a good manager, and his theories on maintaining a healthy co-founder...
May 20, 2014
Matt Rogers is the co-founder of Nest Labs, a home automation company headquartered in Palo Alto, California that designs and manufactures sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning, programmable thermostats and smoke detectors. Nest was recently acquired by Google for $3.2 billion. In this 2013 talk, Rogers discusses...