Notable Alumni

IdeaPaint

John Goscha

IdeaPaint is a patent-pending single-coat roller-applied paint that transforms any smooth surface into a high performance dry-erase writing surface. IdeaPaint is perfect for the conference room, creative spaces, classrooms, home offices, kids rooms, playrooms… or any other spaces.

John was gracious enough to donate thousands of dollars in IdeaPaint to cover the walls of E-Tower. Since painting E-Tower with IdeaPaint collaboration has skyrocketed!

IdeaPaint has raised over $15 million in funding.

IdeaPaint.com - Click here to read their founding story

Footage Firm

Joel Holland

With over 30,000 satisfied customers, Footage Firm is the leader in providing HD and SD royalty-free stock footage from around the world. A few notable customers include NBC, MTV, National Geographic, History Channel, USA Network, Disney, ABC News.

FootageFirm.com

Tatto Media

Lin Miao

Founded in 2005, Tatto Media is now one of the world’s largest behavioral advertising networks. Tatto Media enables advertisers to target their specific audience with exact accuracy, by partnering with thousands of premium publishers and analyzing billions of anonymous behavioral data points.

In April of 2011 Tatto Media was acquired by Ozura World for $60 million.

TattoMedia.com

Cirtex Corp

John Xie

Cirtex Corp is a multi-million dollar web hosting company that currently hosts more than 100,000 websites internationally, specializing in video and social media hosting solutions. Cirtex Corp has flourished in a hyper-competitive, commoditized industry by delivering affordable, scalable and professional web hosting solutions that meet the needs of a variety of clientele.

Cirtex was included in BusinessWeek's Top 25 for 2010.

CirtexHosting.com - HostV.com

G6 Media, Inc

Alex Lin & Rangel Spasov

G6 Media, Inc is a mobile "Pay-Per-Install" advertising network for the iOS/Android. This platform allows app developers to monetize their virtual currency as well as advertise their apps through G6 Media's extensive publishing network.

G6 Media has raised over $150,000 and is backed and advised by some of the most distinguished individuals in the mobile industry. They reached over $500,000 in revenue four months after their launch in early 2011. G6 Media is currently raising their Series A for $5 million from various venture capital firms.

G6Pay.com

Minus Inc

John Xie

Minus is the next generation online sharing platform. Drag and drop files such as pictures, music, videos, etc and Minus does the rest to make sharing simple and effortless. In 2011, Minus released desktop and mobile apps to expand on the success of the website.

Minus won Babson's 2011 Student Business Of The Year Award and has been featured in TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Wall Street Journal, Lifehacker, The Next Web and more. In August 2011 Minus raised $1 million in seed funding from IDG Capital Partners.

Minus Blog - Minus.com

Blank Label

Fan Bi

Blank Label is an e-commerce retail start-up that provides custom men’s dress shirts. They offer an easy to use web app that lets you customize shirts with a click of a button. They've been featured in major press such as NYTimes, BusinessWeek, Mashable, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, MSNBC, Forbes, and many more.

Since the site's launch, customers worldwide have ordered more than 7,000 shirts, generating over $350,000 in revenue.

Blank-Label was included in BusinessWeek's Top 25 for 2011.

BlankLabel.com

Jacox-Hilton Producer Consulting

Cam Jacox, James Hilton

Jacox-Hilton is a consulting firm in the US and Canada that services producers in the life insurance industry. They increase production through MGAs and directly at advisor offices by performing client book analysis and valuation services. Jacox-Hilton uses a system of proprietary models and analyses to show precisely where there are opportunities to increase production while providing additional value to clients. In essence, servicing clients is no longer an obligation, but an opportunity.

JacoxHilton.com