Jerome Breche is an entrepreneur, innovator, and one of the co-founders of SnapEngage, a customer engagement application that empowers any company or anyone to quickly get a robust chat system embedded onto a website. Here are my 5 questions with Jerome and his answers: 1) In a recent New York Times article The Yin and [...]
Category Archives: Business Interviews
Interview with Erik Allebest About Web Entrepreneurship
Erik Allebest is one of the founders of Exercise.com, a website that helps anybody improve their well-being and health through various innovative online tools. He is also the co-founder of Chess.com, a gaming site with over 4 million registered users. Chess.com enables anyone to play chess for free online. Erik is a graduate of Stanford’s [...]
Interview with Scot Hacker About Website Engineering
Scot Hacker has a long list of accomplishments when it comes to technology and the Web. Over the last decade he has authored MP3: The Definitive Guide for O’Reilly, a book about the Be operating system for end users, and countless articles on technology for Web development publications such as MacWorld, Byte, and PC Magazine. Currently [...]
Interview with Deena Varshavskaya About Social Shopping
Deena Varshavskaya is an alumni of Cornell University and has been a chronic serial entrepreneur since college. She has founder credits that include ReelACT.com and Dynamik Interactive and has helped other companies get started through her efforts with the incubator Lotus Interworks, Inc. She is an expert in user experience design and has helped companies [...]
Interview with Invite Media co-founder Nat Turner
Nat Turner, the co-founder of Invite Media, is a self-made multimillionaire who sold his start-up to Google for $70 million in his early 20s. In an interview with CNN Nat Turner shares some valuable information to inspiring entrepreneurs and gives his opinion about why young entrepreneurs might have a leg up on their more established [...]
Interview with Barbara Lippard About SCORE
Barbara Lippard is a member of the Board of Directors of SCORE. SCORE is an amazing small business resource. They are a nationwide, non-profit organization with 13,000 counselors and approximately 400 chapters in the United States. They offer free mentoring and low cost educational workshops to aspiring and existing small business owners. Before SCORE, Barbara [...]
Interview with Matthew Szymczyk About Augmented Reality
Matthew Szymczyk has been the CEO of Zugara for more than a decade. Zugara is a successful employee owned Augmented Reality (AR) development company located in Los Angeles, California. Matt and his team create custom and proprietary Augmented Reality software along with providing other creative services to a growing list of clients that include Sony, [...]
Interview with Hammad Zaidi About Calculated Business Risks
Hammad Zaidi is a managing executive of several successful endeavors, which includes being the CEO of Lonely Seal Releasing, a film and television distribution company that has represented over 40 projects, including Julian Lennon’s Whaledreamers and Harrison Ford’s Dalai Lama Renaissance. He also owns Lonely Seal Pictures, a production company, as well as his newest [...]
Interview with Edward Baker About the Viral Factor
Ed Baker is the co-founder/CEO of Friend.ly, a site which makes it fun to discover and connect with new people on Facebook. He has been working on viral growth for the past 10 years across multiple mediums, including email, SMS, IM, and Facebook. Since the 2007 launch of the Facebook platform, he has worked on [...]
Interview with Lloyd Nimetz About Social Entrepreneurship
Lloyd Nimetz is a successful serial social entrepreneur. He has worked for Prosper, Ashoka, Endeavor, the UNDP and the IADB. Before obtaining his Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University in 2008 he was one of the founders of HelpArgentina which is an organization that promotes philanthropy by helping individuals, businesses, and foundations identify and [...]
