Chad Mureta's Made an App for That

Chad Mureta's Made an App for That

You always hear people saying “there’s an app for that.”  Before long, they might start saying Chad Mureta built an app for that.  His first was Fingerprint Security-Pro, but he’s developed just about 50 of them, netting almost 40 million downloads. But Mureta’s story isn’t just one of a successful IT person who knows how ... Read more...

Don't Try To Be Like Tim Ferriss

Don't Try To Be Like Tim Ferriss

Cr-runnnnk.  That's his neck.  On the mat.  Tim Ferriss is learning jiu-jitsu in front of the cameras.  It's part of his TV series, The Tim Ferriss Experiment, which his website describes as "Myth Busters meets Jackass."  In the show, Ferriss goes on difficult adventures, aiming to show that one can do a lot more than ... Read more...

Barry Shore's Business With a Purpose

Barry Shore's Business With a Purpose

One of the things frugalentrepreneur celebrates the most is the diversity in today’ssuccessful entrepreneurs.  A stereotype of entrepreneurs is the young man strutting around Silicon Valley and racking up hundreds of thousands of twitter followers. Today’s inspiring entrepreneur may be cut from a slightly different cloth.  Shore became an entrepreneur later in life, and has ... Read more...

The Zen of Parker Conrad

The Zen of Parker Conrad

You’re no stranger to entrepreneurs who got fired from one job before moving n to the startup that eventually made it rain cash.  Noah Kagan was let go by Facebook before going on to galactic success with AppSumo. Another person whose path was at least similar to that is Parker Conrad. The only thing that ... Read more...

Would You Send Anne Wojcicki Your DNA?

Would You Send Anne Wojcicki Your DNA?

If you knew just one thing about a woman, that she’d played ice hockey as a child, what might you guess about the path her life would take?  What would you focus on?  The athleticism?  The desire to, at least up to a point, break gender barriers?  The toughness?  The fearlessness? Perhaps it’s these last ... Read more...