“We’re not this huge non-profit. We don’t have massive amounts of money. But there’s enough to make a difference.”
Terin J. D. and Korie Pickett: The Playground
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Josh Owens: Boost
“Most solutions in the education space require a lot of teacher input to manage it . . . Boost was inadvertently solving this problem: it was focused directly on the student using existing data.”
Sharlene Toney
“If it can’t be accessed by somebody who is using a screen reader or who uses a keyboard to navigate everything, then it’s not a really cool widget.”
Shelly Westerhausen Worcel: Vegetarian ‘Ventures
“I got in at the right time. There was just a handful of vegetarian blogs, and you could easily create a scene around it.”
Britain Taylor: ShuffleMe
“What I want to see is whether something that I spent 11 years building is going to benefit people in the long run. That’s something that motivates me every single day.”
Ricketts Indigo
“I invest so much time and energy in making something that is so intangible. It’s a color. It’s wavelength and light.”