Articles about Mina Yoo

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

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

Geek of the Week: Seattle entrepreneur Mina Yoo invents products that provide an ‘extra hand’

Like many entrepreneurs and inventors, Mina Yoo was inspired to launch her current venture, Lulabop, to solve a problem that she experienced… Read More