2Tor Jeremy Johnson
AppStack Steve Espinosa
Back to the Roots Nikhil Arora, Alejandro Velez
BaubleBar Amy Jain, Daniella Yacobovsky
Big Easy Blends Craig Cordes, Antonio LaMartina
Blank Label Fan Bi, Danny Wong
Ciplex Ilya Pozin
Codecademy Zach Sims, Ryan Bubinski
Contently Joe Coleman, Shane Snow, Dave Goldberg
Dwolla Ben Milne
Fabulous Coach Lines Ray Land
General Assembly Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves
Geoloqi Amber Case, Aaron Parecki
GiveForward Desiree Vargas Wrigley
Heyzap Jude Gomila, Immad Akhund
Lookout Mobile Security John Hering, Kevin Mahaffey,James Burgess
Massive Health Aza Raskin
Mixbook Andrew Laffoon, Aryk Grosz
PharmaSecure Nathan Sigworth
Pinterest Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp
Rebellion Photonics Allison Lami Sawyer
School House Rachel Weeks
Simple Energy Yoav Lurie, Justin Segall
Spotify Daniel Ek
Synthetic Lucas Allen Buick, Ryan Dorshorst
Uassist.ME Alfredo Atanacio, Rodolfo Schildknecht
University Parent Media Sarah Schupp
The Unreasonable Institute Daniel Epstein, Tyler Hartung, Teju Ravilochan
Zivelo Ziver Berg
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2011 Read about Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger of Instagram, Matt Mickiewicz of 99designs, and Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp of Birchbox. Plus the start-up stories of Quora, Onswipe, Dropbox, Foodspotting, and Gemvara.
2010 Meet Alexa von Tobel of Learnvest, Naveen Selvadurai of Foursquare, Jack Abraham of Mint.com, plus the founders of Rent the Runway, Airbnb, Crowdflower, Posterous, LivingSocial, and Urban Escapes (now part of Living Social).
2009 Pete Cashmore of Mashable, Elliott Bisnow of Summit Series, Danielle and Jodie Snyder of Dannijo, Jamail Larkins of Larkins Enterprises were included on our 2009 list, as were the teams behind ModCloth, Thrillist, IdeaPaint, Foodzie, and Justin.TV.
