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1. What’s your story (in 3 sentences or less)
Worked full-time in IT and web for 15 years. Left in September 2016 to freelance and start my own business when my daughter was 1 year old. Now 1 year in to my business journey!
2. Biggest aha moment?
“The files are IN the computer!”
1.What’s your story (in 3 sentences or less)
Born in Queens. Raised in New Jersey. Working to help people not get (more) sick. Also, I’m a huge fan of latte art. Life Goal: have a barista etch Pikachu into a latte for me.
2. Biggest aha moment?
I learned to make efforts to meet people outside my domain. There’s always ways to cross-pollinate ideas and industries to create something meaningful.
3. Share a fun or unique fact about yourself.
Born in Fort Dix, NJ, C.a. Shofed’s parents were in the military, He spent my early years in Germany. In high school, he studied Graphic Arts at Assunpink Vocational School, moving into Advertising Design in college. “It was college that first exposed me to photography.” Before he had a real chance to explore photography as a career he took a summer job as a computer installer and never looked back. “I spent the next 25 years as an IT Professional”.
“Although my professional life had focused on technology, I maintained an interest in photography, always carrying my camera with me,
1.What’s your story (in 3 sentences or less)
Engineer / inventor dabbling in VC for the last 22 years. SOSV specializes in hardware, life sciences, and several other deep verticals. I spend a lot of time on the road, visiting almost all of the 150+ new companies SOSV invests in every year.
2. Biggest aha moment?
When I realized that you must grow happiness under your feet, not off in the distance.
As a recent transplant to NJ, it was also a pretty cool to see that you can flip the NJ transit seats on the Dinky to face either direction in about 1.5 seconds.
The idea for Wattvision first occurred to Singh in 2008. Barack Obama was running for president for the first time, and Savraj Singh ‘03 was at home again, five years after graduating as one of the first Computer Science concentrators from Princeton University. Former President Obama had given his “New Energy for America” speech, calling on all Americans to save energy in their homes and businesses. Taking Obama’s call-to-action to heart, Singh looked for a way to track his own household’s energy usage, but came up blank.
We were all taught that the best way to get from point A to point B is a straight line, but what is the best way to learn?
While contemplating this question, Aggie Sung had a flash of genius. Create a program that teaches children to explore the world by developing and employing skills of a television journalist.
RYAN LILIENTHAL
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Warren Baelen, VP of software engineering, and the other team members at Arable started out like the rest of us who are plenty familiar the inaccuracies of current weather models. For farmers, small errors in weather reports can result in oversights in crop yield predictions and a misunderstanding in the atmospheric conditions that produce the healthiest and highest-quality plants. Arable Labs aims at limiting those oversights and misunderstandings by supplying farmers with accurate data acquired directly onsite which it accomplishes through the use of the Pulsepod.
In 2008, Jon Graham began his career as a freelance graphic and web designer who primarily built websites. He set out to tell a story on each website that he made through the use of text and stock images but soon wanted to take on a new challenge.