Tagged: peter thiel

June 5, 2014 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peter Thiel introduced the 2014 class of new Thiel fellows on Thursday. The fourth set of young entrepreneurs to be award Thiel Fellowships, the fellows will receive support to bring their innovative scientific and technical projects to life, learn entrepreneurship from the group up, and… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Big Names Provide Matching Funds to Fix Badly Broken Congress. Political MayDay PAC hit their initial goal of crowdfunding $1 million two weeks ahead of schedule.  Now the social campaign has launched the next phase of its effort by targeting their next fundraising goa of… Read More

January 9, 2014 @ 9:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables CEO Sonny Vu recently spoke at Seattle Pacific University, and as a part of his visit he sat down and was interviewed about his experience in running Misfit Wearables. He shares revelations including the fact that Misfit had VC backing before they launched… Read More

June 18, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has raised $16 million in a round with contributions from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Founders Fund and Formation 8. Spark Capital and Matrix Partners led the round. Spark founder Santo Politi and Matrix partner Antonio Rodriguez both acquire seats on Oculus’s Board of… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:40 am By USA Today  |  

ARMONK, N.Y. — The $100,000 Thiel Foundation fellowship James Schuler just won allows young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to pursue their business ideas — except he never got there in the first place. Before graduating from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y., last year,… Read More

April 25, 2013 @ 9:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UnCollege is the brainchild of Dale J. Stephens, a young entrepreneur and Thiel Fellowship alumnus whose aim is to debunk the commonly accepted assumption that college is the only way  to prosperity. UnCollege has teamed up with crowdfunding platform Pave in order to help their… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 5:13 pm By One Million by One Million  |  

In April 2013, CrowdFunding is not yet legal in America. In the upcoming years, it will become so. This posts reflects on changes we may anticipate once this change occurs. Mercantile capitalism has led us to great wealth creation. It has also led us to… Read More