NOTE: This was originally published in FORBES in Forbes Under 30. Even though it has never been easier start up in the first place, there’s no doubt that most adults don’t take you seriously when you’re building a company and yet can’t even get into a bar. In my own experience building my company ThirdEye, I would oftentimes talk…
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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…
NOTE: Article originally published on Forbes Under 30. See original article on Forbes here. Recently, there has been a massive rise in digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs). The thought is that your company manages the entire vertical supply chain and distributes itself rather than outsourcing to a partner; the brand is born online and is…
NOTE: This article was originally published in FORBES under FORBES Under 30. See the original article here. Press can serve a lot of purposes but one of the main ones is credibility. As 19-year-olds working on a startup during college, credibility mattered a lot for us. But it especially mattered for the product we were…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…