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Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom: Instagram

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· Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022

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Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom created Instagram in October of 2010. Krieger and Systrom created the app after being inspired by their shared love of technology and photography. Their app was an immediate success gaining millions of users in a few short years. One of the main reasons that they decided to create Instagram in the first place instead of using one of the myriads of other image sharing websites such as Facebook and Twitter, is because they felt that these other websites did not allow people to share images meaningfully, so they decided to create their own alternative. Another reason why Instagram got so popular was because they managed to release their app right when social media was becoming popular and when more people started getting access to faster broadband internet. As time has gone on the app has continued to add features that not only keep the current users of Instagram happy, but also bring in new users to the app everyday

What I think makes Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom exemplary entrepreneurs is the fact that they found a common passion in an underserved market, so they created their own app to fill the void.

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Ben Pasternack

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· Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

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Ben Pasternack is an Australian technology entrepreneur, and he is the CEO of three businesses. The three businesses he runs are called simulate, flogg, and monkey. It all started when he was just 14 and got bored in his science class so he decided to create a fun app to pass the time. He created the app called “impossible rush” and this had over 2 million downloads. The best part of his story was what he put in his locker at the end of eight grade that read “If you’re reading this, you really f—ed up.” He said he wanted to never go to school again and wanted to make money with his apps. His most successful business is called simulate and his signature product is NUGGS which is a plant-based nugget simulation. I thought that his story was very interesting because he was not the type of kid to pay attention in any of his classes in school. I respect how he found what he was good at and just focused on that when starting his own businesses. His journey is inspiring because at the young age of 16 he had to move from Australia to the United States by himself. He said there were times he felt very lonely but fought through it by focusing on his passion of developing new apps. I also thought it was clever how he uses different social media platforms to reach his customers. He takes full advantage of the web so he can optimize his success for each of the businesses he owns.

Ben Pasternak - Wikipedia

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Categories : App, Entrepreneurship, Food, Great Ideas, Positivity, Technology

SAFETRIP

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· Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

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SAFETRIP is a wonderful app designed to book non-emergency and emergency medical transport for the elderly, veterans, homeless, and anyone else in need. Surprisingly, this revolutionary idea was co-founded by young engineer Langston Whitlock.

At 12 years-old, Langston was learning to code and fell in love with it. Eventually, Langston used his newfound knowledge to make an app to contact his absent father. With these skills, Langston was later brought on to the SAFETRIP team by Ja’Nese Jean.

Ja’Nese Jean, a co-founder of SAFETRIP, birthed the idea when witnessing a homeless veteran not having access to healthcare or transportation. Knowing Langston’s skillset, she invited him to the developing team to collaborate together and make the revolutionary app come to life.

This app allows its users to book emergency or non-emergency transportation. Vehicles include premium cars, vans, wheelchair accessible vehicles, and ambulances as needed.

Since its creation, SAFETRIP has raised over 2 million dollars in funding because of Langston’s technology. Although it’s currently based in Georgia, the company hopes to soon expand into other parts of the country and make an even bigger impact.

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Categories : App, App development, Health, Programming, Teen Entrepreneurs, Transportation

Ekaterina Demenkova

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· Monday, October 10th, 2022

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Ekaterina Demenkova recently made it on the Twenty Under Twenty list, where she pitched her health tracking app, PODIL. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, and is the Founder and CEO of PODIL. This type of position comes with great responsibility, but Ekaterina was passionate about her innovative cause and became an established young entrepreneur that helps many people with her creation.

PODIL promotes wellness, and allows its users to meet their health and wellness goals through an AI. The AI assistant gives the user a list of steps specifically curated for them that helps make someone’s health goals attainable. It utilizes a communal platform where people can share their accomplishments with their friends and family, and compete in challenges together.

Ekaterina’s overall goal was to make health information and personal health tips more accessible, and her app does just that. Her mission is to help people develop healthy habits, and grow easily, and PODIL uses technology to her advantage in doing so.

She is a perfect example of an innovative, young entrepreneur, especially considered what she has accomplished at such a young age. She revolutionized a new way to receive accurate, efficient, and reliable health information and advice so that people can make positive and healthy changes in their lives.

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Categories : AI, App, Artificial Intelligence, Athletics, better version of yourself, Fitness, Healthy Lifestyle, Technology, Uncategorized, Women Entrepreneurs

GRADPRENEUR – Raspinder Singh

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· Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

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Raspinder Singh observed that there were a variety of issues that plagued college graduates once they began searching for a job. At the age of 22, Singh developed Gradpreneur, a networking platform offering tools and resources to recently graduated students by assisting them in expanding their strategic professional networks. The site allows users to build relationships for locating jobs, as well as creating new ventures. The concept is highly intriguing and offers a valuable service to aspiring young business professionals. Singh took a tired old problem of navigating the job hunt upon graduation and was able to provide a platform which helped to facilitate the interaction between employers with a talent pool from which to fish.

Although Singh was not the first person to develop a platform of its kind, he certainly appears to have done an excellent job at tailoring his tool to be highly utilitarian for both companies and graduates. Singh was effectively able to capitalize on a common need in an effective manner and so, even though he may not have necessarily been the first to create a site of its kind, he developed a stickiness in the marketplace that many of his competitors failed too. Thus, his innovative idea in a saturated market proved to be an excellent solution.

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Categories : App

SoundMind – an App for a Better Future

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· Tuesday, September 27th, 2022

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In a world full of stressors and increasing anxiety, two students from the University of Southern California decided to address the situation in a new way.

Brian Femminella and Travis Chen, the creators of SoundMind, were 20-years old when their idea was born. With extensive research on music therapy and neuroscience, these entrepreneurs created an app to aid in the fight with a multitude of mental disorders. The main goal of the company was to bring awareness to this rising issue, especially with the impacts of COVD-19 on mental health. Thus, the app was born.

The app’s design is unique. Femminella and Chen use the power of binaural beats and soundscapes to help users deal with stress, anxiety, or trauma. The music has been developed specific to the app by different artists on the SoundMind team. The more you listen to the music, the more the app tailors the music choices to you. It keeps track of the music you find most relaxing and the AI sound recommendation remembers your choices. Since the app’s release, it has also shown that users sleep better, focus better, and feel less suicidal. This app has had an amazing impact so far.

The SoundMind website highlights a few other benefits of using their app:

Health security and compliance
Analytics and Insights
Music customization
Integrations
24/7 support
Rapid Response and Intervention

The integration feature allows you to link your SoundMind account to the Apple Health app so you can keep track of how you feel and your improvement.

The brilliance of this app aligns with a lot of scientific research on our brains and how they react to music. If you constantly feel overwhelmed by your anxiety, this app can help calm your mind and help you refocus. If you are interested in trying out the app, you can go to their website to check it out.

https://www.soundmind.app/

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Categories : App, mental health, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Music, Young Entrepreneur

SAFETRIP

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· Monday, September 26th, 2022

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Langston Whitlock is another young entrepreneur who started his own business at the age of sixteen. He is taking the tech world by storm as he is the co-founder and CIO of SAFETRIP, which is the world’s first healthcare transportation mobile app and digital platform. With this app, Whitlock’s patented technology can allow users to book non-emergency and emergency medical transport. It also gives the user an option to pay for services using their insurance. Although he is one of the youngest entrepreneurs in this industry, he says he does not let his age deter him from his goals. The one thing he talks about is how he had a good support system because the people around him trusted his skills. The way SAFETRIP was created was that another person named Ja’Nese Jean saw a homeless veteran who didn’t have access to healthcare. Ja’Nese Jean brought on Langston Whitlock because she knew about his skills and talent. This goes to show how good Langston is at coding because SAFETRIP has raised two million dollars in funding. What was inspiring about Langston’s story was how he started to learn coding at the age of 12. He did it by building an anonymous messaging app to contact his absent father. He says that project is what helped guide him toward his greater purpose which is what he is currently doing with SAFETRIP. His message to other people was to always have faith no matter your circumstance because God has a plan for everyone. Although Langston did not come up this idea, I thought it was very impressive to see how talented he was in the tech industry to lead him where he is at today.

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Categories : App, App development, Elderly Care, Health, Male Entrepreneurs, Programming, Young Entrepreneur

Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp-Pinterest

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· Saturday, September 24th, 2022

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Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp created Pinterest as a way for people to share their ideas, interests, and inspirations with other people around the world. Pinterest was launched in 2010 as an upgrade to their previous app Tote, which was an online store for buying virtual catalogs. After experiencing problems with Tote, they decided to create a new app that instead of being focused primarily as an e-commerce store, focused more on the social media aspects such as the sharing of ideas and projects that the users of Tote were enjoying the most. As time went on they added quality of life updates such as business accounts and ads that are targeted to peoples interests and searches in the app.

Although Pinterest started out with a very small amount of users in 2010, by 2011 the app was receiving around 11 million visits per week and in 2020 had around 400 million active monthly users. Also, as of 2021 Pinterest reported that they made around $1.7 billion in ad revenue which was a 48% increase from the previous year.

Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp demonstrate their entrepreneurial skills by taking the feed back and lessons learned from their previous project and use it to create something bigger and better.

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Categories : App, Communication

SoundMind: An App by Travis Chen and Brian Femminella

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· Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

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https://www.businessinsider.com/soundmind-gen-z-founders-pandemic-stress-trauma-solution-2021-11

Travis Chen and Brian Femminella acknowledged how there was a lack of trustworthy mental health resources, and so they decided to come up with an app called SoundMind, which uses music to help reduce anxiety for individuals. Both of these individuals battled immense challenges in their personal lives, and they used them as inspiration to try to provide resources for other people. They created an online environment for people to have crucial mental health resources, and have a sense of community for others who understand the struggles that they are going through. They plan to expand their app even further to allow creators to upload their own sounds, along with commission opportunities.

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Categories : App, better version of yourself, Health, mental health, Mindfulness, Music, Musician Entrepreneurs, Uncategorized, Young Entrepreneur, young entrepreneurs