“We can order a pizza with an emoji, but the average American still has to wait 24 days for an appointment and lose over two hours of their life to visit the doctor.” James Cowan is a Marine Corps veteran and father of four. While working for an on-demand home repair company, he noted the […]
Nina Barnett , a rising senior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, thought hard about her personal safety after moving to the campus. From late-night cramming sessions at the library to leaving parties, Barnett wanted to alert her friends and family that she had gotten home safe. “I realized that safety shouldn’t have that […]
Depending on what report you cite, commercial space is rocketing into a $200 to $400 billion market. Beyond space tourism, much of that is due to the wide variety of research — anything from agricultural, medical/pharmaceutical, electrical and more — that companies are itching to conduct in the cosmos. Space industry veteran and engineer Twyman […]
Finding affordable equipment rental options for work in the environmental testing, farming, surveying, laboratory and medical industry can be difficult, if not impossible. Robert Preville came upon the gap in this $50 billion rental market while at his second business, a distributor of electronic and testing measuring equipment. Most equipment manufacturers are focused on sales, not […]
Mental health is in the spotlight right now, particularly in light of recent events. The National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that approximately one in five adults experiences mental illness in a given year, and one in five youth aged 13–18 experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. And the early […]