Tagged: upstart

April 28, 2013 @ 5:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Upstart was featured on CNBC recently in a video where founder Paul Gu spoke about the platform and their recent success. A young company called Upstart makes it possible to buy a share of someone’s future income. From the side of the upstart, as the… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 10:39 am By MIT Technology Review  |  

In my years reporting on startups, I’ve often encountered stories of venture capitalists who’ve invested in a person, rather than a person’s idea. Hustle, an entrepreneurial spirit, a solid education, resolve, sheer likeability–often, these are qualities that seem to matter as much to investors as… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 10:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Upstart, started by reformed Googlers, is a crowdfunding site that crowdfunds you with a slice of economic freedom. In their own words, Upstart aims to help you with the most important part of pursuing your dreams – taking the first step. It may be as… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Wired  |  

… Let’s start with Kickstarter as the obvious crowdfunding example. The company was founded by three guys with no previous finance experience. The target return for investors who back development of new products — from objects to movies — on Kickstarter is … nothing. Backers are instead… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 4:48 pm By The Verge  |  

Trina Spear, 29, graduated in 2011 with an MBA from an elite school and a hefty $170,000 in student loans. The debt was the reason she took a job in private equity rather than start her own company. “For someone coming out of Harvard Business… Read More

February 3, 2013 @ 6:36 am By NYPost  |  

Sure, we all believe that youth must be served, but are you willing to invest in their future — literally? Crowdfunding platform Upstart, which launched in October, lets recent college graduates raise cash from online backers, who in return get a slice of their income… Read More

January 23, 2013 @ 7:29 pm By Kayla Webley  |  

The start of Nathan Sharp’s story sounds familiar: In 2012, he found himself graduating from Dartmouth College with an MBA and $100,000 in student debt. But rather than take whatever job would help him make his monthly payments, the entrepreneurial-minded Sharp took $50,000 from backers using… Read More

November 17, 2012 @ 4:47 am By Washingont Post  |  

Like many early-stage entrepreneurs, Shefali Friesen poured all her personal savings into her start-up, a mobile service for adding bits of music evoking emotions to text messages. As she worked toward her graduate degree in music at New York University, Friesen felt neither the start-up… Read More

November 5, 2012 @ 2:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Upstart, a Silicon Valley startup led by Massachusetts native and former Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) executive Dave Girouard, has extended its crowdfunding site for young entrepreneurs to students and recent alumni of five Boston area universities. The Upstart site, which launched in August, allows entrepreneurs to… Read More