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Allison Byers and the meeting before the money
A failed fundraising round sent Allison Byers looking for answers. Now the Scroobious founder is building a place where overlooked entrepreneurs can meet their supporters before anyone asks for a check.
Mitchell Harper and the business of starting again
A PHP chat room brought Mitchell Harper and Eddie Machaalani together. Listening to merchants helped them build BigCommerce; learning when to hand over the controls shaped what Harper did next.
Herty Tammo and the school that pays its students
He began in a family business making metal doors. At Startup Wise Guys, Herty Tammo turned the expensive lessons of entrepreneurship into an education with money attached.
Deepak Menaria and the education of a useful mistake
In Nagpur, the founder of Lemon Ideas has spent years giving aspiring entrepreneurs room to try. His classroom can look suspiciously like a business - complete with customers, consequences and the occasional instructive blunder.
Creel Price and the business of starting again
He helped build a business that sold for $109 million. Then Creel Price turned to a harder question: how do you help other people build something that lasts?
Mike Slaats and the business he wanted to come back to
He built Vindy into a million-dollar business, then sold it to work on a smaller problem. With Upvoty, Mike Slaats found an audience he understood - and a reason to keep listening.
Alex Mojtahedi and the founders outside the velvet rope
After building startups and investing at Plug and Play, Alex Mojtahedi set out to make accelerator support available to more founders. Peachscore’s own brush with running out of money gave that ambition a rather practical education.