When you’re imagining an entrepreneur championing better technology for female contraception, recent Georgia Tech biomedical engineering grad Idicula Mathew might not immediately seem to fit the profile. But once you talk to Mathew, it’s clear why he’s focusing his medtech startup on improving female birth control — like any good entrepreneur, he found a pain point […]
Joshua Hutchinson‘s interest in technology stems from his love of video games. Beyond the characters, Hutchinson’s passion lays within the building blocks of game development — each element that goes into making a story. To follow his heart into game design, Hutchinson enrolled in Thinkful‘s full-time Full-Stack Web Developer online bootcamp. There, he’s stretched his technical […]
It’s the first thing any aspiring startup founder is told: the odds of a new business succeeding are low. The failure rate of any U.S. company after five years is over 50 percent and over 70 percent after 10 years. A venture-backed tech startup sees even more disappointing statistics, with failure rates ranging from 75 to […]
Chef Andrew Bantug knows the struggles of a small business. His Filipino pop-up style restaurant, held last year, had all the the hustle, demand and finance-crunching stresses of startup life. Now, he sees that same challenge echoed in technology as he makes the transition into programming through General Assembly‘s Web Development Immersive program. “I’m someone who loves […]
Jon Atkinson‘s commitment to fostering innovation and talent in New Orleans is fully ingrained in the career he’s built in Louisiana. As the former director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola University, he was charged with creating programs to support students following an entrepreneurship path. “I got to build a lot from a blank […]