Matt Ackerson is a self-taught artist and computer programmer who started three businesses as an undergraduate at Cornell before graduating in Spring 2009. One of thoese businesses was Scrimple.com - a Web site featuring printable coupons for Ithaca establishments.
His latest venture, PetoVera, is best described as a web design business, and is Ackerson's fourth and final company which he plans to run and grow for the rest of his life.
Matt Ackerson is a graduate of Cornell University.
I think that when you have one or more founders in a company, it is very appealing to investors because, as one very famous investor and a Cornell alumnus, Paul Graham, who founded Y Combinator, the most famous tech incubator out there today, he said he doesn't like to invest in solo founders becaus...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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