# entrepreneurship Published articles for entrepreneurship. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## How Cisco and Jagriti are unlocking digital potential in Purvanchal DevFeed: [How Cisco and Jagriti are unlocking digital potential in Purvanchal]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Rohini Kamath Published: 2026-09-09T20:22:55Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Cisco Blogs]() Topics: [Cisco](), [Development]() Tags: [cisco](), [cisco-purpose](), [community](), [entrepreneurship](), [india](), [our-corporate-purpose](), [social-impact-and-inclusion](), [social-impact-and-inclusion-office](), [social-impact-investments](), [technology]() ### AI overview Cisco describes its partnership with Jagriti to support the Tech Shakti Shri program, which helps rural women in Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh, develop digital and entrepreneurial skills. The article highlights Seema Gupta, an agricultural drone operator, and the program's initial awareness and training phases. ### Source excerpt In one of India's least industrialized regions, we're helping rural women access the digital tools they need to build real enterprises -- and the ripple effects are opening pathways to economic mobility for entire communities. ## Dmytro Krasun on Building ScreenshotOne and DamnGood.Tools in Public DevFeed: [Dmytro Krasun on Building ScreenshotOne and DamnGood.Tools in Public]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: TheAnkurTyagi Published: 2024-03-01T13:19:06Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [ByteSizedBets]() Topics: [developer tooling](), [dev-tools](), [Software](), [Development]() Tags: [building](), [developer-tools](), [developers](), [entrepreneurship](), [products](), [revenue](), [software](), [startups]() ### AI overview An interview with Dmytro Krasun about building ScreenshotOne, a screenshot API for developers, and DamnGood.Tools. The article discusses his entrepreneurial journey, including ScreenshotOne's reported $4.2K monthly recurring revenue and DamnGood.Tools' Product Hunt recognition and $9.5K exit. ### Source excerpt Inside Strategy for Indie Hacker Success ## A CTO's Personal Journey Through Startup Leadership and Development DevFeed: [A CTO's Personal Journey Through Startup Leadership and Development]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Yonatan (Yoni) Levin Published: 2018-08-28T19:06:14Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Stories by Yonatan V. Levin on Medium]() Topics: [Development](), [Back end](), [Mobile]() Tags: [blog-post](), [cto](), [development](), [entrepreneurship](), [journey](), [personal-experience](), [product-management](), [startup](), [startups]() ### AI overview The author reflects on becoming a CTO, describing how the role differs between startups and large companies. The account covers responsibilities spanning product, technology, management, development, investors, and meetings, along with the author's experience moving from Android development into backend work and startup leadership. ### Source excerpt Around three years ago, a day I will never forget, a day that changed the course of my life. Marked the beginning of both my personal life (the day that my dear daughter was born) as well the day that the legendary entrepreneur and investor -- Eyal Gura called me and asked me to join the visionary team at KolGene together with Dan Faszczyk and build a revolutionary idea -- a marketplace for genetic tests which turnout to be a platform to managing all genetic tests of the hospital. And the rest is the history :) KolGene's magic This post will not focus on how we raised our first seed round (but we did!) Or about how we made a successful pivot and acquired our first customers (hard work!) and all of the other fuck-ups we encountered along the way. But rather, about my personal journey to becoming and being a CTO. I was recently invited to talk with Zell students about what it means being a CTO in a startup world. While preparing for the presentation I became inspired to share and write this blog post. Not the same CTO The first thing you need to understand is that a CTO position ranges from company to company (Like every position!). For example, a CTO of a small startup is very different to a CTO of large corporate company. The first requires you to do everything -- from the product, tech, managing and of course developing all by yourself. While simultaneously acquire investors and attend meetings. While a CTO in a large corporate company is far more tech only oriented, where your main responsibilities are to find out the right tech stack for a company product and explain it to the rest of the companies stakeholders. Prelude: Personal experience I was lucky enough to be able to observe various CTO's in different companies embarking on different stages: from corporate to fast-growing startups like Gett. But, since this is mostly about my journey let's talk about my personal journey to becoming a CTO. For years I was "the" go-to guy, the guy that everyone looked to for sol ## Wit.ai's startup journey and the lessons from its founders' previous venture DevFeed: [Wit.ai's startup journey and the lessons from its founders' previous venture]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Rachel Vanier Published: 2015-11-06T14:59:50Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [eFounders]() Topics: [AI Platform](), [AI Development](), [Users]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-platform](), [developers](), [entrepreneurship](), [facebook](), [startup]() ### AI overview This article profiles Wit.ai co-founder Alexandre Lebrun and describes Wit.ai's early launch, traction, Y Combinator participation, funding, and acquisition by Facebook. It contrasts that rapid progress with the mistakes and challenges Lebrun encountered while building his earlier company, VirtuOz. ### Source excerpt You don't often get to meet a co-founder of a startup that follows, by all means, the "perfect successful startup" path. And by "perfect startup", I mean the kind of startup that goes by the book. And by "the book", I mostly mean Paul Graham's essays. I met Alexandre Lebrun, co-founder of Wit.ai, an AI platform that makes it easy for developers to create apps that users can talk to. He holds a degree from a top engineering school. He started his startup while he was living in Palo Alto. He had previous experience in the field. He built the app and launched it early on Hacker News. The app got traction. The team got into Y Combinator. They raised $3M after the Demo Day, with one of the most prestigious VCs (Andreessen Horowitz). 9 months later, they got acquired by Facebook. Here you go. Perfect startup story. What is even more surprising is that when I asked Alexandre: "Your startup seems to be super successful from day 1, is that so?" his answer was: "Well... yes". Don't worry, there is a "but" I was more looking for a "don't be desperate, there are downsides behind all this, success never comes without struggle" kind of testimony. In reality, Wit.ai does indeed follow the success path from day 1, but it's only because Wit.ai is Alexandre's second startup. The story of his first venture, VirtuOz, involves many more mistakes that he learned from. Founders Alex Lebrun, Laurent Landowski and Willy BlandinDoing things right the second time around The story of Alex as an entrepreneur started in 2002, when he decided to launch VirtuOz in Paris. As an engineer passionate with voice recognition and artificial intelligence, his dream had always been to make robots understand human language. Inspired by chatterbots' pioneers like Joseph Weizenbaum -- who created ELIZA in 1966 -- he imagined a solution much similar to Siri. Back in 2002, building Siri was impossible, both from the technological and business perspective. Right after the Internet bubble burst, he decided he would f ## How Martin Destagnol Built Folders and Sold It to Box in Seven Months DevFeed: [How Martin Destagnol Built Folders and Sold It to Box in Seven Months]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Hexa Published: 2015-10-15T17:49:43Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [eFounders]() Topics: [iOS](), [Mobile](), [Cloud](), [App](), [User Experience](), [dropbox](), [Google]() Tags: [acquisition](), [apple](), [cloud](), [dropbox](), [engineering](), [entrepreneurship](), [ios](), [product](), [startup](), [user-experience]() ### AI overview This article recounts how Martin Destagnol built Folders, an iOS client for accessing cloud-stored files on mobile, and sold it to Box seven months later. It describes the product's origins in his own frustration, his focused development effort, and his meetings with Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. ### Source excerpt Martin Destagnol, him-self...And then became Director of Mobile Remember back in 2013, when reading files on "mobile" was new and everyone was wondering how the h*ck to do it? That's when Martin Destagnol, entrepreneur and engineer, built Folders. And seven months laters, Folders got acquired by Aaron Levie's Box. Destagnol is now Director of Mobile and of Box Notes -- the French "serial" "startuper" went from building a product in his apartment (we don't get many garages in Paris) to managing a whole engineering team inside one of the fastest-growing startups in the Silicon Valley. How does one do that? Here's the story. Startup genesis and crazy-fast acquisition As you might hear often times when wondering why an entrepreneur built a startup, Folders came from Martin's own frustration: accessing cloud-stored files on mobile was just a pain. So he decided to build an iOS client providing the very best User Experience possible. But Destagnol also brought a strong business rationale to the idea: as Folders was his 3rd startup, he knew what kind of risk he was willing to take and what outcome to expect. His previous company, Plyce, was a social network based on coupons, which had a great potential but also high risks. When coming up with Folders, his ambition was to build a product much more targeted, with higher chances of a "smaller scale" success. The bet was that one of the existing cloud providers could need a product like Folders; worst case scenario, he would still sell enough to make up for the money invested. Then he shut down everything else but work, and built Folder in 7 months. Full time. Like, 24/7. As in 100% of the time. Once the app was approved by the Apple store, Destagnol decided to come to San Francisco to show it to Box, Dropbox and Google Drive. The product wasn't launched, but he figured the sooner he would show it to the big players to get their feedback, the better -- for those of you who are reading from elsewhere than San Francisco, yes, that's