Ask The Entrepreneurs

A while back, I met Steven Fan, CEO and co-founder of the startup HelloMovies (http://www.hellomovies.com), site that helps you to figure out what to watch, and where to find it.
During our conversation, I was particularly struck by Steven’s personal likeability, openness, and willingness to invite people - even relative strangers like me - into his [...]

Silicon Valley-ites are not the only people in the world who know cutting-edge media entrepreneurship. Why, then, do we have such center-of-the-universe attitude about the Valley that’s rivaled only by NYC and its frighteningly die-hard residents (friends in New York, I love you)?
What do you do if you want to be an entrepreneur on [...]

In college, we learned about social entrepreneurs, the people like crazy Bill Drayton of Ashoka, who are transforming the nonprofit landscape by infusing their projects with a decidedly entrepreneurial flair. Most were nonprofits, very few were primarily businesses that, secondarily, happened to be in the business of ‘helping people.’
Sutanto Widjaja knew he wanted to stay [...]

Talking with Mukund Mohan for thirty minutes was like drinking an entire french press full of Philz Canopy of Heaven.
That is, it left me feeling decidedly buzzed, and wondering how any substance could pack so much energy.
Fitting that his newest venture is called BuzzGain.com. Since hitting the shelves last week, this unique DIY PR service [...]

When a friend first recommend that I talk to Chad Hartvigson for this blog, I was skeptical.
A guy who runs a business selling screenprinted t-shirts for high school sports? Not sexy enough. For someone like me who mingles in the self-absorbed, “[NOUN] 2.0″ buzz of Silicon Valley all day, every day, the idea of debuting [...]