This post is written by Robert Laing, co-founder of myGengo (a 500 Startups company). A bit about Robert, in his own words: “Two years ago I founded myGengo, the API and platform for human translation (some call us a…

Meet Silver Surfer aka 500 SuperMentor Dan Martell (@danmartell). Dan is the Co-Founder of Flowtown, a social marketing application for businesses. Self diagnosed as having intense…

Thank you to everyone who came out to our event, “The New Food Chain: Investing in Food Startups” where we learned about world of food and technology and what kinds of investment opportunities and new startups were were in the space…

Meet Silver Surfer aka 500 SuperMentor Dan Martell (@danmartell). Dan is the Co-Founder of Flowtown, a social marketing application for businesses. Self diagnosed as having intense ADHD, you can either find him hosting…

Meet Professor X, aka 500 SuperMentor Hong Quan (@hongdquan). An entrepreneur and recruiter building cars and startups, Hong has even hired a real honest-to-goodness rockstar (#3 on Billboard charts). He uses his superpowers of recruiting and abilities to read…

Meet The Highlander, aka 500 Mentor Elliot Loh. Elliot is an entrepreneur in search of the next big thing. Most recently, he played several roles at Geni, starting as a design/product co-founder and finishing as COO. While at Geni, Elliot prototyped Yammer, which went on to win TechCrunch50…

Meet Bear Grylls, aka 500 SuperMentor TJ Sassani. TJ is the Founder and CEO of zozi, a company rapidly becoming the go-to place for the coolest experiences and activities. zozi aggregates thousands of merchants in the experience category and is striving to…

This post was originally published by Robert Laing on the mygengo blog. Robert and mygengo are part of the 500 Startups family. You may remember Robert from his recent guest post on doing a startup in Japan.

Since this is a long post (albeit very…

The author, Zach Weiner is the co-founder of Storytree, one of the first d.funded companies. Zach is the product of the Stanford Symbolic Systems program, equal parts computer scientist and designer. This post is the second in a series about the design-driven startup. The first…