Category Archive for: Startups

Why We Decided To Sell Our Startup

NOTE: This was originally published in FORBES on Feb. 15th 2017. For the last two years, my team and I have been building and commercializing a product that empowers the visually impaired by recognizing what they are looking at. Now, ThirdEye is being acquired by TheBlindGuide. The acquiring company is led by a former Merck…

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Why Competition Is For Losers In The Internship And Job Search

Note: This was originally published in FORBES. See it here under Forbes Entrepreneurs.  One of billionaire investor and venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s major ideas is that “competition is for losers.” For example, he talks about how even though Googleprobably creates less value for humankind than the major airlines, the Silicon Valley company is able to capture significantly more of the…

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How Being A Student Allowed Me To Meet And Learn From Dozens Of Successful CEOs

NOTE: This article was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs. See the original article here.  This is the sixth article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created ThirdEye Technologies, a company commercializing a product that empowers the visually impaired by helping them recognize what they are looking at. Check out the first article here about how we created our first prototype,…

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Keeping Your Team Motivated When There’s No Pay, Little Motivation, And A Commitment To School

Note: This article was originally published on FORBES in FORBES Entrepreneurs.  This is the fifth article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a company commercializing a product that empowers the visually impaired by helping them recognize what they are looking at. Check out the first article here about how we created our first prototype, and the second…

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Why You Should Learn How To Write A Business Plan In College

Note: This post was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs This is the fourth article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a non-profit commercializing a product that empowers the visually impaired by recognizing what’s in front of them via auditory feedback. Check out the first article here.  A lot of student entrepreneurs instantaneously think that…

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Here’s The Secret To Managing A Startup During School

Note: This was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs This is the third article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a non-profit commercializing a product that helps the visually impaired recognize what they are looking at. Check out the first article here about how they first built a product and here for how they then commercialized…

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Here’s How to Launch A Product Without Spending a Dime

Note: This post was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs This is the second article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a non-profit commercializing a product that helps the visually impaired recognize what they are looking at. Check out the first article here. After building the first prototype of ThirdEye (see…

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How We Launched ThirdEye in College To Help Visually Impaired People

Note: This article was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Entrepreneurs. This is the first article in a series about how a group of students at Penn created a non-profit organization commercializing a product that helps the visually impaired recognize what they are looking at. Think about what you did yesterday. Have something in mind?…

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Leveraging Every One of Your Tuition Dollars for Your Startup

Note: This post was originally published in Wharton Entrepreneurship.   For the entirety of my freshman year, I worked on building a startup with a group of three other freshmen. Our big idea was ThirdEye: a product that empowers visually impaired persons by telling them what they are looking at. During our freshmen year, our team of…

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