Seattle inventor’s Heroclip gear-holding gadget acquired after raising $2M and selling 1M units Heroclip, a unique gear-holding gadget invented by Seattle entrepreneur Mina Yoo, has been acquired by Gear Aid of Bellingham, Wash.… Read More
Book excerpt: Heroclip creator Mina Yoo’s ‘Be an InventHer’ aims to inspire women to ‘just go for it’ Mina Yoo didn’t actually recognize that she was an inventor until she’d received two utility patents during her journey toward… Read More
Fast-growing Heroclip keeps hooking investors as gadget secures $1.1M in new funding Investors clearly want to hang with Heroclip. The unique hybrid gear clip that is part carabiner and part utility hook… Read More
Crowd pleasers: 5 companies share secrets to success on Kickstarter and Indiegogo Beyond the obvious need to raise cash, crowdfunding solves a variety of issues for a young company with an idea… Read More
Resilience and risk-taking: How the immigration experience shapes the path of foreign-born entrepreneurs First- and second-generation immigrants make up only 27 percent of the U.S. population, yet more than half of the most… Read More
Immigrant perspectives: Women entrepreneurs on ‘microaggressions’ and biases Reetu Gupta, founder and CEO of Cirkled in, has 20 years of experience in corporate America. In addition to having… Read More
How can U.S. improve its immigration policy? We asked immigrant entrepreneurs and tech leaders Seattle-area entrepreneur Mina Yoo has been in the United States since 1991, receiving a dual Ph.D. in sociology and business… Read More
Do-it-all Heroclip releasing new sizes and colors; Indiegogo goal of $30K reached in less than a day Heroclip, the hybrid gear clip created by a former University of Washington professor, has a new hook to attract fans… Read More
HEROCLIP, the do-it-all invention for camping, organizing and more, hooks $500K in new funding Lulabop, the Seattle-based lifestyle startup which created an “Invention We Love” at the 2016 GeekWire Summit with its multi-use carabiner/hook called… Read More
