User Stories

One day Brett Brockway walked into a local automotive shop to get his tires changed. The manager was being lambasted with phone calls and drowning in a sea of paperwork, when all the while he was doing a hell of a job keeping up with orders. Seeing this, Brett started to  think that this problem …

Brian Camelio is a musician, composer, producer, public speaker, educator, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of ArtistShare, the internet’s first crowdfunding platform that also operates as a record label and business model for creative artists. The first ArtistShare fan-funded release won a...

Erica Porter originally received her Bachelor’s degree in law at the University of Cambridge and then went on to receive her Master’s degree in psychology. However, Erica had always been interested in tech, so while she taught herself coding basics through online tutorials, she realized it was...

If you have friends all over the world, Gifty is a service that recommends great gift ideas and makes sure they are delivered to the right place. Gifty’s algorithm will generate 3 gift ideas based on your friends’ public Facebook content. You are able to select the price range to ensure only the...

Donnie Wang is an experienced product manager and marketer who spent the past 10 years working in companies such as HP, Ubisoft, and Raptr. He studied entrepreneurship in college, but never “took the leap” to try to build something of his own, mostly due to not knowing exactly where to begin,...

Marc Plotkin is a saxophone player, an entrepreneur, a songwriter, a Grammy-shortlisted Producer, and an artist. He also co-founded DecisionDesk, which is a company that modernizes the process of applying to colleges and currently manages the application process of 200 universities around the...

Barry Gray has enjoyed a stellar career in semiconductor marketing and business development.  Having a degree in EECS from Berkeley, software development has always been one of his interests.   So when Apple announced the first iPad, he decided to try his hand in developing iOS apps, figuring it...

Dhruv Patel is a graphic and UX designer. As co-founder of web design firm Omazing Creations, he’s spent five years honing his skills in conversion optimization and user experience. When his work started to demand JavaScript and backend expertise, Dhruv needed a way to expand his company’s...

StudyManager is a successful Life Sciences software company Bruce Schatzman built from scratch, and after growing the company for 18 years, he sold it to Merge Healthcare in 2012. Afterward, Bruce started another company, Path9, which does custom consulting with a primary focus on the healthcare...

 Alicia Morga is a serial entrepreneur based in San Francisco.  She is the founder & CEO of No. 8 Media, and previously founded Consorte Media, a digital media company focused on the Hispanic market which was acquired in 2010.   Alicia advises numerous start-ups, and has served on the boards...