For the vast majority of athletes, the rode to stardom started at a very young age.
We scoured the web looking for images from these early days of some of the world's most famous athletes.
We found some gems.
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Facebook just announced its latest mobile product, Facebook Home.
Don't think of it as a smartphone operating system. Instead, a replacement for your regular Android home screen.
Facebook Home launches April 12 on five Android smartphones plus a new phone from HTC called the First.
Want to see how Facebook Home works? Take our tour in the gallery below.
One thing's for sure — no one knows where all the world's money is.
It can be tucked away in investment vehicles, funneled through holdings companies, sheltered in tax havens... we've heard the stories. It's a huge problem for governments.
To better understand the gravity of this situation, journalists from The Guardian, Huffington Post, The BBC joined the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in sifting through thousands of documents about tax shelters, who owns them, and how they work. You can see the full result over at Huffington Post.
The investigators found staggering names and numbers. There are politicians, wanted fraudsters, royals, and heads of dynasties on the list.
They use companies like Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and BVI-based Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL) to help them set up offshore investment vehicles.
What it all drives home is that this is something that is done. James R. Mellon (of the Mellon banking dynasty) put it this way:
“I just heard of a presidential candidate who had a lot of money in the Cayman Islands,” Mellon, now a British national, said alluding to former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “Not everyone who owns off shores is a crook.”
There's a thought.
Imee Marcos is the daughter of late dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, and is a provincial governor in the country.
According to the ICIJ she's the beneficiary of a $5 billion British Virgin Islands (BVI) trust amassed while her father was in power.
The ICIJ reports that Shuvalov's wife, Olga has BVI accounts in her name as do two executives at Russian state energy company, Gazprom.
That's significant because Shuvalov has come under fire for his dealings with Gazprom (and putting the cash from those dealings in Olga's name) before.
Here's what Bloomberg reported about Shuvalov a year ago:
....when the international media last week reported such dealings by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, one might have expected a public outcry.
In Russia, however, things are much more complicated. Plenty of commentators, including President-elect Vladimir Putin's spokesman, have defended Shuvalov, and it appears that he truly has not broken any Russian laws, such as they are.
The facts, denied by no one, are as follows. In 2004, a Bahamas company called Sevenkey Ltd. entered into two stock market trades. It invested $17.7 million in the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom with the help of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, and another $49.5 million in European steelmaker Corus via another billionaire, Alisher Usmanov. In 2007 and 2008, Sevenkey exited the trades with a profit of almost $200 million. Shuvalov's wife, Olga, is listed as Sevenkey's beneficiary. Both deals were consummated when Shuvalov was an economic aide to Putin.
The Baroness is an art dealer and socialite from Spain. She became a royal when she married Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1985.
ICIJ found that she used a company on Cook Island to purchase art from Sotheby's and Christie's, including Van Gogh’s Water Mill at Gennep.
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Tiger Woods is the most recognizable name in golf today.
Everyone knows Woods; partly because of his scandal, partly because he's one of the best golfers to ever take the course, and mostly because his presence cannot be ignored.
Photographers at golf tournaments can't seem to ignore him either. They find ways to photograph Woods that are beautiful and artistic, and end up not just being about golf.
The 2013 Masters kicks off April 11, get excited with these awesome photos of Tiger.
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Seoul is getting harassed by the North Koreans again, this time over a jointly controlled manufacturing facility.
It's a reminder that the two countries never officially ended their conflict, which began in 1950 (only an armistice was signed).
Despite the North's history of empty bluster, South Korea is taking all necessary precautions — they're now reportedly shopping for bunker-busting bombs from Europe.
That may seem natural — the South is one of the world's most important marketplaces, and needs to protect their standing.
But until around the '90s, they didn't have quite so much to lose from an economic standpoint.
With the kind cooperation of flickr user Stephen Dreher, we've compiled a series of striking images of Seoul from the mid-1960s, only a little more than a decade after hostilities had ceased. His descriptions appear beneath each photo.
As you'll see, there are plenty of scars still apparent.
"Sunny day, with a dusting of snow still around, looking north toward City Hall on Taepyong no 2Ga, about halfway from Namdaemun. Duksoo Palace gate on right." Seoul, Dec 1965
"On the way to see Hello Dolly, on its Asian tour, starring Mary Martin." Seoul at night, Nov 1965
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A key mission in a fight against North Korea would be neutralizing their nuclear stockpile.
This could be done by nuking the nukes — which as you might guess is pretty politically unlikely — or through subtler measures.
The fastest and quietest way to get special operators in position to recover or "disqualify" a nuclear threat would be by dropping them out of an airplane. During or after an initial bombardment, military parachuters could be tactically air-dropped high above the earth over specified targets.
A recent war game emphasized the need for "counter-weapons of mass destruction" units to complement "general purpose" ground units.
The U.S. meets this demand with nuclear-qualified and high-altitude covert operations-qualified SEALs and Special Forces troops.
Paratroopers have played an important role in gaining strategic assets from World War II to Afghanistan.
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Goldman Sachs macro analysts Noah Weisberger and Aleksandar Timcenko are out with a new presentation on the state of the global economy.
The title: "Slipping into slowdown."
According to the data, it looks like the global recovery story may be on hold for now, and markets around the world are not sending encouraging signals.
And some of the most important positive themes are being called into question.
Note: Thanks to Goldman for allowing us to run slides from this presentation.
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The cold-blooded assassinations of two Texas prosecutors— and a suspected link to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas— have placed American prison gangs in the spotlight.
The drug war has caused the U.S. prison population to explode. Ironically, these groups fuel the drug trade from the inside.
We gathered information from the Department of Justice and gang expert and teacher Robert Walker to get an idea of who the baddest of the bad are.
One of America's most violent prison gangs, Barrio Azteca is most active in Texas prisons as well as communities in southwestern Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
Members are often linked to Mexican drug cartels, and the gang's main source of income is the smuggling of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana from Mexico into the U.S. for distribution both inside and outside the prison systems.
The gang has been tied to immigration smuggling, arson, assault, auto theft, burglary, extortion, intimidation, kidnapping, robbery, and weapons violations.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
The Black Guerrilla Family was founded in 1966 in the California prison system by Black Panther George Jackson.
Highly organized with a supreme leader and a central committee, the group operates primarily in the states of California and Maryland promoting an anti-government philosophy.
The gang gets income from distributing cocaine and marijuana obtained from local Mexican drug traffickers, and it's also involved in auto theft, burglary, drive-by shootings, and homicide.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice and Robert Walker
Three prison inmates created the Dead Man Incorporated in the 1980s in the Maryland Division of Corrections.
One of the three founders, Perry Roark, tried to join the Black Guerrilla Family but was rejected and started his own gang.
In 2006 leadership told a member to begin recruiting in Virginia, so he assaulted a cop to get into the system. Dead Man has started swallowing up smaller gangs and is now one of the largest prison gangs in Maryland.
The gang is involved in murder-for-hire, acts of intimidation, violence, and drug distribution.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Baltimore Sun, and Robert Walker
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With all the talk about Dell going private so it can revamp itself without Wall Street on its back, we got curious.
Who are the biggest private enterprise companies? Better yet, who are the biggest private companies under the radar?
So we looked around. We examined at our own Digital 100 list of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. We scanned through the Forbes list of America's Largest Private Companies. We looked at the Inc. 500 and the Silicon Valley Business Journal's lists, too. (All used estimated revenue for 2011, the latest full-year data available.)
World Wide Technology: $4.1 billion in estimated revenue
Headquarters: St Louis, MO
CEO: James Kavanaugh
WWT is a "systems integrator" which means tech consultant that helps companies roll out big enterprise projects like VMware software, secure networks, Bring Your Own Device software.
It's home to about 1,800 employees and was named one of the 100 best companies to work for thanks to generous profit sharing.
SHI International: $4.5 billion in estimated revenue
Headquarters: Somerset, N.J.
CEO: Thai Lee
SHI International (formerly known as Software House International) is an online marketplace where enterprises can buy tech like computers, printers, servers and so on. It also sells consulting services and cloud computing.
At $4.5 billion in revenue (according to a company's spokesperson) and with over 2,000 employees, SHI is the one of the largest minority and woman-run tech businesses in the nation.
Infor: about $2.8 billion in estimated revenue
Headquarters: New York
CEO: Charles Philips
Infor is has quietly become a huge enterprise app company, with around $3 billion in sales and an estimated valuation of $16.1 billion.
It's CEO knows software. He is ex-Oracle president Charles Philips. One of the reasons Infor stays under the radar is that it has grown by acquisitions, so it's like a collection of smaller software companies. Each of them serve very specific business niches, like dairies or footwear companies.
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You've probably noticed people talking and tweeting endlessly about "Bitcoin" lately.
The Economist finds it intriguing while GigaOM's Matthew Ingram points out several problems with it.
It's even gotten the attention of economic heavyweight Paul Krugman, who has said it's like a reimplementation of the gold standard.
So what the heck is it?
Bitcoin is a decentralized, anonymous, digital-only currency that's lately gotten a lot of public attention.
But this isn't some brand new invention — Bitcoin was originally developed in 2008.
In 2008, someone using the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" published a paper describing how Bitcoins could work. Just one year later, they started being traded and mined (more on that in the next slide).
Sure, you can buy Bitcoins with money. But you can also play prospector and "mine" them as well.
You do this by using your computer to hunt for 64-digit numbers. By having your computer repeatedly solve puzzles, you're competing with other miners to generate the number that the Bitcoin network is looking for. If your computer generates it, you receive 25 Bitcoins.
The Bitcoin system is decentralized and programmed to generate a fixed number of Bitcoins per unit of computing time. Currently, it's set at 25 Bitcoins for every 10-minute block. In 2140, the total number of Bitcoins in circulation will be capped at 21 million. In other words, the Bitcoin system is self-sustaining, coded to prevent inflation, and encrypted to prevent anyone from disrupting its code.
Here's a full explanation on how you can get started mining Bitcoins.
This weekend, Steven Spielberg's classic 1993 film "Jurassic Park" will return to theaters in 3D.
It's been two decades since the dinosaur epic came to the big screen.
We know Samuel L. Jackson went on to become a huge box-office success, but where did the rest of the cast land?
See what happened to Dr. Grant, leading lady Dr. Sattler, and the two children running around the dinosaur-infested park.
This is not a bad place to grow up people.
The 5 acre estate that was home to financial thriller 'Arbitrage' producer Kevin Turen is on sale for $39 million, the WSJ reports. He was also married on the grounds.
The home is known as the 'Gloria Crest Estate' and was built for Polish Count Stefan Ponyatovsky. Turen's parents are selling the property because they want to buy a townhouse in NYC.
It's hard to imagine why. This gorgeous 8 bedroom house is unbelievably ornate, and comes with an in-home movie theater, pool, library, fountain... we could go on.
Dennis McCormack of Sotheby's has the listing.
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Wall Street firms have a habit of hiring lacrosse players.
Bloomberg Businessweek published a piece last year about the "lacrosse mafia" linking several Wall Street execs to the sport.
We decided to comb through Major League Lacrosse rosters and find the best players at Wall Street firms.
Since MLL has only been around since 1998, we have included some players who were standouts that never had the chance to join a pro team.
Many of the guys on our list play professionally while working full-time finance jobs. Some have retired from the sport and others have left the Street.
If we're missing any big names, feel free to send us an email at jlaroche@businessinsider.com to add to the list.
Wall Street Career: He's a managing director of the credit businesses at Blackstone. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock. Before that, he was a trader at First New York Securities.
Pro Team: Rochester Rattlers (retired)
Position: Defense
School: Princeton (c/o 2001)
Highlights: He co-captained the team that won the 2001 NCAA men's Division I championships. He won the Men's Ivy League Player of the Year and was named a USILA All-American (first team).
Source: USILA,Source: FINRA, Source: Go Tigers
Wall Street Career: DeBlois spent six years working on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital Markets before leaving in 2009. He's currently an 8th grade math teacher.
Pro Team: Rochester Rattlers (retired)
School: Cornell
Position: Defense
Highlights: He was a starter all four years at Princeton. He was co-captain of the team his senior year. He was also named a USILA All-American (third team).
Source: USILA, Source: FINRA, Source: LinkedIn
Wall Street Career: He works in equity and fixed income sales at CapRok Capital. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch.
Pro Team: New Jersey Pride (2001-2003)
Position: Attack
School: Princeton (c/o 1998)
Highlights: He's a three-time All-American (first time twice). He was named the Ivy League Player of the Year as a junior.
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Romance isn't cheap. But in some places, a night out on the town is a lot more expensive than in others.
Deutsche Bank recently came out with its second "The Random Walk" report, which looks at the changing prices of goods and services around the world.
We're taking a closer look at how major cities fared on the report's "cheap date" ranking and highlighting a couple of specific items in the index.
Delivery of a dozen roses: $139
2 movie tickets: $35.90
Cab ride (3 km): $11.79
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
Delivery of a dozen roses: $139
2 movie tickets: $34.86
Cab ride (3 km): $10.77
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
Delivery of a dozen roses: $113
2 movie tickets: $42.08
Cab ride (3 km): $12.77
A "cheap date" includes sending a standard bouquet of roses, cab rides, soft drink, pizza, two movie tickets, and a couple of beers.
Source: Deutsche Bank
As you might have heard, ArchDaily is celebrating its 5th birthday!
We decided it was time to get a bit nostalgic and look back at the projects of yesteryear, the ones that struck a chord with you, our ArchDaily readers, and helped us get to where we are today.
Architects: MOS—Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Location: Ontario, Canada
Project year: 2005
Architects: Barbosa & Guimarães
Location: Porto, Portugal
Project Year: 2006-2008
Architects: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh
Location: Looz, Limburg, Belgium
Project Year: 2011
Leatrice Eiseman is somewhere in the world right now looking for the next Color of the Year.
The executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, Eiseman has made this important decision for the past 13 years. It is not taken lightly.
"We deliver the news in a sealed envelope, and we have our representatives go out to [partner companies] in their trench coats with their suitcases," Lisa Herbert, Pantone's Vice President of Consumer Licensing, explained over the phone. "They have to sign a confidentiality agreement and the color cannot be revealed until we say so."
This year's announcement of emerald green swept through the marketing world and into celebrity wardrobes.
Pantone's partner Sephora unveiled its Emerald-hued collection, with competitors like Revlon jostling to compete. Magazines such as Us Weekly, InStyle, Lucky, and Elle Decor began to capitalize on the trend with photo spreads and emerald-hued product features, while the color cropped up in advertising campaigns for Banana Republic and the flash shopping website Gilt.
"It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy because people are going into the stores asking for it," Herbert said. "[Retailers] have to have it, even if they have to scramble to do it."
So why does Eiseman get to make this decision?
She's recognized by those in the fashion and marketing communities as an American color specialist, and has authored eight books on the subject of color and consumerism. After graduating from Antioch University and UCLA with degrees in psychology and counseling, Eiseman put her skills as a color consultant to work for major brands like IKEA, Best Buy, and Microsoft.
Eiseman doesn't make the Color of the Year decision alone: Pantone has a committee of color experts searching for the next big thing year-round, and hosts international "colorists" biannually in a pre-planned European city to discuss dominant hues for each season.
Even so, she's the most influential person in the room.
She gave us a little insight into how she helps make the decision.
"It's hard to explain to anyone how you really arrive at the specific color," Eiseman explains. "But it's picking up nuggets of information wherever you travel — and I travel all over the world. If I see that a color is coming into prominence (for instance, if I'm in Asia and I see the same color in Italy and Germany), then I would say that color is on the rise and starts to have a collective impulse."
She and her team also do research on trends in related industries, like high-end jewelry and show business.
"We knew that greens have been big in the last few years, and people are still very much attracted to green and the message that it gives: the whole idea of being connected to the environment, unity, elegance, rejuvenation, and clarity. The color green stands for all of these things, and is universally appealing."
And after Eiseman and her team decided green was trending worldwide, they had to decide the specific shade: "You can't use the same shade that's been out there in the marketplace for three years season after season, because it won't work," she said. "What can you choose that still captures the zeitgeist of the public and yet still offers something new? That's what we ask ourselves."
So the next time you're wondering why emerald green is so prevalent this year, you can thank Leatrice Eiseman.
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If climate models are correct, then Hurricane Sandy, and the flooding it brought, gave us a gentle preview of the not-so-distant future.
A recent NASA study found that between 1992 and 2012, global sea levels rose, on average, a little more than one inch each decade or about 3 millimeters per year. That's much faster than climatologists had expected.
See what could vanish when sea level rises >
The trend is not reversing.
Sea levels rise because of melting glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica as a result of warming temperatures. The ocean also expands as it warms.
Rising sea levels make coastal areas, particularly those with dense populations, much more vulnerable to heavy flooding.
The day when continents are overtaken by seawater may seem long-off, but the threat is very real.
Nickolay Lamm, from StorageFront.com, wants the world to know just how real.
The artist and researcher created sea level rise maps depicting what major U.S. monuments will look like over the next century if we continue on a business-as-usual track.
You may have have seen Lamm's work featured on Business Insider before. He recently illustrated how to make Google Glass look fashionable and what the child of Prince William and Princess Catherine will look like all grown up.
For his sea level project, Lamm collaborated with Remik Ziemlinski, the same person who did research and created sea level maps for "The New York Times."
Real-life scenes
Each hypothetical scene, which ranges from the Statue of Liberty to the Washington Monument, depicts four levels of flooding: 0 feet (today); 5 feet (which is possible in about 100 to 300 years); 12 feet (which is possible by about 2300); and 25 feet (which is possible in the coming centuries).
"I want people to look at these images and understand that the places they value most may very well be lost to future generations if climate change isn't a bigger priority on our minds," Lamm told Business Insider. "These illustrations are not based off wild Hollywood scenarios, but sea level rise maps from Climate Central."
An artist at work
Each scene took anywhere from 5 to 15 hours to create, said Lamm. First, Lamm had to find a stock photo which, according to the sea level rise maps generated by Ziemlinski, would be affected by extreme flooding in the future. Then, he used Google Earth to figure out exactly where the photo was taken in order to be able to label the streets, roads, and pathways visible in the photo.
Using the sea level rise maps, Lamm estimated where the flooding would be in the stock photo.
He used topography maps to determine the correct depth of the flooding in each scene. All of this was drawn by hand in Photoshop using a physical pencil that translates the brush strokes to a touch sensitive surface, and then to the computer, Lamm said.
In the following slideshow, each sea level rise map precedes the "real world view." A white triangle in the maps represents where the "camera" is positioned in the illustrations. The blue shading represents the amount of sea level rise. After these maps are shown, we see what this camera is viewing in real life.
For Lamm, these haunting images are more than just a fun project. "We are trying to show that 'Space is Limited,' he said. "Not just for our personal belongings, but for the places in which we live."
Tiger Woods is finally winning again.
Even though a shocking scandal and a horrible professional slump knocked him off the top of the highest-earning athletes, Tiger is still one of the richest sports figures on the planet.
He rakes in more than $55 million per year, and he spends it on some unreal boats and houses.
Even though he's been down, he's still rolling in money.
Source: PGA
Source: Forbes
Source: Fortune
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With great wealth comes great responsibility.
That's how we judge the tycoons of tech. While many of them spend their money on expensive luxuries, like cars, houses, planes — even islands — they are also expected to use their prosperity to do good works.
That's the implicit demand of the tech industry.
Some are astoundingly generous, giving tens of millions —even hundreds of millions — to their favorite causes. How much they give says a lot about them. Which causes they support does, too.
SEE ALSO: MISSING OUT ON BILLIONS: These 10 People Made Some Of The Saddest Choices In Tech History
Larry Ellison is known for his extravagant lifestyle filled with cars, airplanes, mansions, even a Hawaiian Island. But he's a big philanthropist, too, giving to his own Ellison Medical Foundation.
Ellison jokes about it: "We are focused on diseases related to aging—I mean, for obvious reasons." (He's 69.)
But it's no joke. He's trying to cure diseases like Alzheimer's and arthritis. And he's generous. The foundation awarded 70 new grants, giving away $46.5-million last year alone, reports Philanthropy.com
Through a $3.3 billion donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Microsoft cofounder is trying to fix lots of the world's problems. He's eradicating polio, trying to end poverty, improving education.
But some of his causes are more fundamental. For instance he's working on better ways to dispose of poop. The foundation sponsored a "Reinvent the Toilet" fair with the winners picked by him.
He's also offering $100,000 to anyone who can make a condom people actually like to use.
Paul Allen, Microsoft's other billionaire cofounder, is also known for an extravagant lifestyle that includes owning multiple pro sports teams, massive collections, building music museums.
He's invested a half billion dollars into the Allen Institute for Brain Science. It will study how the brain works with a goal of curing diseases like Alzheimer's, an illness his mother suffered from. And ultimately, institute has another goal: to replicate the brain and build machines with human intelligence.
Many of today's largest tech companies began on college campuses.
Google stemmed from a project two Stanford Ph.D students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were working on. Facebook began in Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room. Snapchat, a popular new messaging app, also began on Stanford's campus.
First Round Capital, an early stage venture firm that has backed companies like Fab, Path, One Kings Lane and Uber, is trying to find the next big dorm room company. It has created Dorm Room Fund, which selects a handful of driven students, gives them half-a-million dollars, and asks them to invest in their peers' startups. The students will be investing about $20,000 in each startup over the next two years. When they graduate, they'll find new students to replace them.
The first Dorm Room Fund group began in Pennsylvania, and those students have backed two startups so far.
Now Dorm Room Fund has found 11 students in schools across New York, from Columbia undergrads to NYU MBAs. Their task: To find the next Mark Zuckerberg.
The 11 students come from all sorts of backgrounds. They've built their own Google Glass-like products, interned for Facebook and Square, and started micro-finance firms abroad. Here's who the are, and the college startups they have their eyes on.
Bio: After studying Philosophy at Swarthmore College, Alex spent four years as a customer experience and product manager at McMaster-Carr and then PetFlow.com. He is heavily involved in the New York food entrepreneurship world, having founded both yumspring and the Lean Food Startup community. Now at Columbia Business School, Alex is building the Columbia Food Lab, an accelerator for MBA-founded food startups. Though he spends most of his time thinking about food (who doesn’t?), Alex is interested in all forms of entrepreneurship, from tech startups to search funds, and can be found at alexmginsberg.me or @alexmginsberg on twitter.
Favorite Campus Startup:BuzzTheBar lets you order drinks before you get to the bar so they'll be there waiting when you arrive.
One NY entrepreneur I greatly admire: I admire ZocDoc’s Cyrus Massoumi for building a tech company that will be solving a real life need for a very long time.
Something I’ve built: I’m in the process of building Lean Food Startup
Why DRF: I’m thrilled by the possibility of investing in peers whose companies will change the way I live; and selfishly, I want them to stay in New York after school so that we get all the new products before other cities.
Bio: Ricky is a second year MBA student at NYU where he is co-president of the NYU Entrepreneurs Network. He worked as an NYC corporate lawyer before leading up mobile healthcare projects in Ghana and Egypt. He is interested in tech entrepreneurship, social enterprise and venture capital. Previously @theFancy.
Favorite Campus Startup:Taxi Treats, a vending machine inside a cab.
One NY entrepreneur I greatly admire: I admire Dennis Crowley because he started off by making a really great product and has stuck to his guns and will end up with a really great business.
Something I’ve built:Salesbus.com, a way to sell what you love.
Why DRF: I love the idea of being able to help fellow student validate great ideas as they make the leap to becoming great entrepreneurs.
Bio: Taylor Francis, a junior at Princeton studying public policy, is the co-President of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, a 1,000+ member community of people interested in technology and startups. He started the Club's TigerTrek program, which brings students to visit entrepreneurs and investors in NYC and Silicon Valley. He has been an intern at Facebook and Square, and is working this coming summer at Coursera.
Favorite campus startup: Discourse, a student project that seeks to map the world's knowledge
One NY entrepreneur I greatly admire: I admire the way Carter Cleveland, founder of Artsy, is doing the very hard and important work of bringing the art world into the 21st century.
Something I've built: TigerTrek program that brings 20 Princeton students to Silicon Valley over Fall Break each year, where they visit leading entrepreneurs and investors.
Why DRF: This is an exciting opportunity to empower students to take projects they are tinkering with to the next level -- this funding and encouragement can mean that students will take the next steps of turning their ideas into reality, and that will be the source of some truly impactful innovation.
