Startup Stories

Rob has been starting companies for most of his life and is author of the book Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup. His blog, Software By Rob, is a top 20 startup blog and is read by about 20,000 web entrepreneurs each month.

Zach is a co-founder at Olark, which puts visitors to your website in your buddy list, so you can have a human conversation with them. Olark has been growing rapidly since doing YCombinator in the summer of 2009.

Jeff Epstein is the founder of zferral.com and Funded by Night. zferral.com enables companies to scale their business by crowdsourcing sales and marketing. Easily create, manage & track your custom affiliate and referral programs from a single dashboard.