Higher or Hire Ed? As I talked about in my Frank article, college tuition is absurdly high. What else is absurd you may ask? The fact that many students are expected to pay that same high price for a fraction of the college experience. As many colleges stay predominantly online for the foreseeable future, and tuition remains pretty much the same, students can’t help but ask themselves, is it really worth it? Zoom University was maybe cute and quirky the first week. However, soon many people realized the strain and drain from sitting at a computer all day, all alone, trying to focus on less than engaging classes. Even before…
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SquareFoot
The Office or THE office? So you’ve got your awesome start-up idea, and you have a great group of people ready to work with you – seems like everything’s falling into place! You’ve been working from home but decide that you’d like to have a centralized space where you can work together – your bedroom just doesn’t suffice anymore. It’s time to step into the real world and get an “office.” Okay, okay, I admit it’s convenient being able to take a quick nap, but sometimes that ends up doing more harm than good. Anyway, now you’re ready to venture into the city. However, as we’ve already seen, real estate…
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Voor
We are fashion or VR Fashion? See that dress she’s wearing – beautiful isn’t it? Getting it there is quite the process – perfecting clothing takes iterations, that makes a lot of sense. What we often overlook, however, is how many resources are used to perfect that dress, or any article of clothing for that matter. Dozens of samples are used and then just tossed away. But what if there was some way for designers to virtualize their designs, still have them in 3D with accurate textures and colors, and virtually (literally) eliminate the waste generated by sampling? That’s exactly what Voor is doing. Voor is a virtual fashion company…
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UGE
Riding the solar coaster and making a h(UGE) impact In 2006, one of the first films about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, was released. Surprise, surprise, ignorance was certainly not bliss when it came to the environment and all of a sudden people were concerned about Earth heating up at an alarming rate. One of these concerned people was Nick Blitterswyk, founder of UGE. UGE is a commercial solar company focused on the mid-scale space, including warehouses, distribution centers, and schools. A platform and execution company, they build, develop, engineer and finance solar technologies. Originally from Canada, UGE founder Nick Blitterswyk came to NYC for his first job. An actuary…
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Battlecard
Ready for Battle(card) Picture this: two debate competitors from rival high schools in Orlando end up having to work on a math project together. Mortal enemies turn friends, they realize they click and work well together. They decide to be co-founders and work on various start-ups together. No, this is not the plot of a new Netflix Original Movie – this is the story of Mathew Pregasen and his start-up Battlecard. Battlecard is a software tool that helps sales teams improve their playbook documentation process and also practice for sales presentations. It allows users to organize the different aspects of a sales playbook in a clear way, and keeps everything…
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Dataminr
And they were suitemates! What if fortune tellers were a thing? What if we could predict outbreaks or wars and figure out what measures need to be taken to stop them? What if with the snap of our fingers we could see the future? Perhaps not with a snap, but with a couple of clicks – what if I told you this is something that already exists? Imagine you’re a big finance guy, doing your finance thing, and you get a call from one of your college suitemates saying, “Hey, if I’m somehow able to scrape information from Twitter would that be useful to you at all?” I mean yeah,…
