{"id":12719,"date":"2023-11-29T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/29\/geospatial-entrepreneurs-offer-tips-for-successful-startups\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:27:31","slug":"geospatial-entrepreneurs-offer-tips-for-successful-startups","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/29\/geospatial-entrepreneurs-offer-tips-for-successful-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Geospatial entrepreneurs offer tips for successful startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

\u2018The more valuable the problem-solve is, the more valuable the business is going to be\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n “Follow your passion. If there’s a big problem out there, and you wake up thinking about it, there’s probably a path for you to do that,” says Andrew Schiller, Ph.D. ’01, founder of Location Inc. (second from right). He spoke as part of a panel for Clark’s annual Practicing Geography and GIS Week, organized by Clark University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics. Others, from left, include Steve Schroeder, co-founder of CoreLogic; Andrew Berg, a venture capitalist for Companyon Ventures; Jonathan Glick, principal data scientist for CoreLogic; and Hamed Alemohammad, director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics\n

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Clark University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics recently brought students face to face with five leaders in the geospatial industry who shared tips on launching, funding, and working at startup companies.<\/p>\n

“A degree in GIS from Clark opens all kinds of career opportunities,” said Hamed Alemohammad<\/a>, director of the University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics<\/a> and associate professor of geography<\/a>. “Many of our students are hired right out of school to work for geospatial technology companies but may not realize they also have the skills to start their own companies. We wanted them to meet some of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors in the fields of geospatial analytics and location intelligence to learn how they might do that.”<\/p>\n

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