Tagged: peter thiel

June 18, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has raised $16 million in a round with contributions from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Founders Fund and Formation 8. Spark Capital and Matrix Partners led the round. Spark founder Santo Politi and Matrix partner Antonio Rodriguez both acquire seats on Oculus’s Board of… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:40 am By USA Today  |  

ARMONK, N.Y. — The $100,000 Thiel Foundation fellowship James Schuler just won allows young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to pursue their business ideas — except he never got there in the first place. Before graduating from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y., last year,… Read More

April 25, 2013 @ 9:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UnCollege is the brainchild of Dale J. Stephens, a young entrepreneur and Thiel Fellowship alumnus whose aim is to debunk the commonly accepted assumption that college is the only way  to prosperity. UnCollege has teamed up with crowdfunding platform Pave in order to help their… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 5:13 pm By One Million by One Million  |  

In April 2013, CrowdFunding is not yet legal in America. In the upcoming years, it will become so. This posts reflects on changes we may anticipate once this change occurs. Mercantile capitalism has led us to great wealth creation. It has also led us to… Read More