Meet ParqEx Founder, Vivek Mehra Don’t have time to scour the city for some decent parking? Vivek Mehra, founder and CEO of ParqEx, wants to bring parking straight to your smartphone, and allow you to find the right spot in the right neighborhood for the right price. ParqEx is based in Chicago, and the woes […]

Bryan Davis never would’ve predicted he’d be selling shirts for a living. After moving from the Midwest to New York for college, Davis worked as a managing partner in the nightclub and restaurant scene, but decided that he wasn’t fond of the lifestyle or the hours. During a trip to Thailand in 2007, he observed […]

Jambo App Last year, Laura Stembridge left a lucrative consulting job to become a world traveler, trekking through Southeast Asia mostly on her own. The London-based WeWork Moorgate member recalls feeling lonely at times, wishing that she had a way to meet new people along the way. Find People To Travel With It was during […]

Karen Moon’s career trajectory sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie script. Moon embarked on a career in fashion design before she realized she wanted to “try something different” during her time at Otis College of Art and Design. She enrolled at UCLA and pursued her interested in technology and investment banking. From there, […]

Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, it’s no surprise that Lindsey Cummins is full of great ideas. But it wasn’t until a doomed trip to Fire Island—and a partnership with a Kardashian—that she struck gold. Shortly before graduating from Cornell, Cummins tried to plan a celebratory outing to Fire Island with her college girlfriends. […]

From an early age, Moné McLucas knew that she had good people skills. “My mom calls me a social butterfly,” she says with a smile. “We knew when I was pretty young that I wouldn’t have a problem interacting and engaging with people—that’s one of my gifts.” For her current job, that personality type comes […]

Geraldo Ramos, Assis Silva, and Forest Good knew it was coming. An executive from Pluralsight confirmed what they had suspected for months: that company wanted to acquire their startup Hackhands. It “was pretty clear they wanted to buy us from our first conversation,” Good remembers. When they mulled over the offer, Ramos and Good agreed that […]

Many entrepreneurs dream of their moment in the spotlight, but for 23-year-old Sharon Winter, that dream became a reality when she was tapped to star in Startup U. “When I got there, I didn’t really know what to expect,” Winter says about her stint on the ABC Family reality series, which premieres August 11. “I […]