The Revolution Will Be Televised
Michael Seibel, 26
CEO of Justin.tv, a live video website that draws 31 million visitors a month
"We were all just out of college, and we knew that live video was going to be big. One of our founders, Justin Kan, came up with this idea of lifecasting, and he attached a camera to his head and started broadcasting his life. That was the spark. We got on the Today show in the first month, and then we opened up the network to other people who wanted to show live video. We now have 40,000 broadcasts a day, and we show 50 million hours of video a month. We've built this great system, and we now want to power live video on other people's websites. We want to be like PayPal for live video."
Stroke of Genius
John Goscha, 25
Founder of IdeaPaint, a maker of paint that turns walls into dry-erase boards
"My freshman year at Babson, I lived in a dorm for student entrepreneurs. My friends and I would hang big sheets of paper on the wall to brainstorm. After a while, I thought, Wouldn't it be great if we could just paint the walls and write right on them? I looked around, and there wasn't a paint like that in existence, so I started developing it. I came up with a very crude prototype and painted my dorm room. The response was great. It's one of those products where people just say, 'Wow, this is really cool.' At that point, I realized this could really be a business."
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