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Growing up in the English countryside, Charles Sampson always had an entrepreneurial spirit. As a child at school, he found ways to make money, once selling safety pins on a school sports day for competitors to pin their bibs on with. Even from a young age, he seized opportunities and found niche markets to capitalize on. His grandfather was a stockbroker, and Charles still vividly remembers him checking share prices on the Teletext, green arrows going up and red for a share that was not quite so lucky. He was always intrigued by what a company had to do to get that green arrow by its price, and as he grew up this fascination turned into a deep passion for business and finance. Now, Charles is an industry leading business adviser who has worked with many successful startups. He holds an ACA accounting certification, which is only held by 150,000 people worldwide. He is known for helping to launch the shipping start-up Ashley Chartering Limited, making it the worldwide success ...

Browserling is a cross-browser testing service started in 2010 and co-founded in 2011 by Peter Krumins (CEO) and James Halliday. Located in Oakland, California. We have conducted an interview with Peter. When did you start Browserling and what inspired you to deal with browsers? I started Browserling in 2010. I teamed up with my friend James Halliday who I met on IRC and we built technology that streams the desktop of a virtual machine to your browser. This technology let anyone connect to any virtual machine and use it from their browser. We weren't sure how to monetize this so we built Browserling that only streams browsers to your browser. We used Amazon EC2 to launch various versions of Windows virtual machines (XP, Vista, 7, etc) and we installed all the possible browser versions on these virtual machines. This allowed users to launch any browser in their own browser and test their websites. Who will benefit most from your services? Web developers will benefit ...

Suresh Parakoti is the Founder and CEO of glasssquid.io , an online contingent staffing firm that leverages artificial intelligence to connect top IT talents with companies and hiring managers. Suresh has over 20 years of experience in technology and staffing, and is currently building out the next generation of procurement models by utilizing AI technology and machine learning. We have conducted an interview with him. Where does your company name derive from? Our company name is derived from cranchiid squids, which comprises of about 60 species with one trait in common: their transparent nature. This is why they are more popularly referred to as glass squids. At glasssquid.io , our philosophy is total transparency in the contingent staffing process - both in the job hunting and talent acquisition perspectives - providing both contingent opportunity seekers and hiring managers as much information as possible about their prospects. Our methodology mirrors the transparent ...

Iyobosa Ero is the Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at a Global PR Firm. He is a member of the ISC2 and ISACA which are international organizations focused on cyber-security and it's implementations and has served as the Organizer of the SIEM MeetUp group in Chicago. He has 12+ years in IT and Cyber Security. Iyobosa's greatest strengths are his solution driven, creativity, drive and leadership. He thrives on challenges, particularly those that expand the company’s Cyber Security reach. Iyobosa holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Finland and an M.Sc from DePaul University and now pursuing his Doctorate in Cyber Security. In his free time, he is a backup singer at his church, Iyobosa loves to travel while spending quality time with his wife. We have conducted an interview with him. What inspires this startup idea 'Preparture'? I must admit, people have different stories of what catapulted/promoted them into starting a new venture. Mine, however, started wit...

MirroCool is a San Francisco startup who is bringing to market a smart mirror that uses Facial Gestures Recognition technology. The mirror functions as a Personal Assistant synced up with your smart device. We have conducted an interview with the founders. What is the most interesting aspect about the 'Smart Mirror'? MirroCool is the only smart mirror that uses Facing Gestures Recognition (FGR) technology to be activated and to perform its various tasks, it does not use voice or touch, freeing your hands for your mirror-facing tasks, henceforth increasing your productivity, an all-in-one hands-free personal assistant. How long have you been in the Facial Gestures Recognition technology? The company started to develop its application of FGR in 2016. What do you aim to achieve for your Kickstarter campaign? What is the most exciting perk to be offered for early adopters and backers? Our team. We are offering exclusive one-on-one time with the CEO of the c...

Roland Siebelink is an accomplished entrepreneur and scale-up executive from San Francisco, California. Before moving to Silicon Valley, he lived in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. He has founded three companies and sold one, Topicmarks, to Tagged. He is a former winner of the Silicon Valley Founder Showcase and a certified Scaling Up coach .  Now he helps founders of growing startups scale up their organization. Did you know that sixty percent of founders lose the CEO position within four years? Investors push them out when they find that founders "do not scale". But the new CEO brought in from the outside rarely helps the startup recover momentum. But what if founders and their teams could learn to scale? What if we could combine the founders' charisma and best scaling practices? Roland acts as the founders' scaling ally. He brings in new knowledge and tools, organize executive team workshops and keep an eye on results. We have conducted an intervi...