Daniel A. Epstein

Daniel Epstein (born December 10, 1985) operates a business incubator for entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colorado.

Business career

His first entrepreneurial venture was Tuition Specialists, a company aimed at helping out-of-state students pay tuition at less-expensive resident rates.^[1][2]

In 2009, with some fellow graduates of the University of Colorado, he co-founded the Unreasonable Institute, a nonprofit that is a business incubator for entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colorado. Associated with the incubator is an early-stage investment fund that invests in social entrepreneurs, including those who attended the Unreasonable Institute.^[3] Attendees raise $10,000 for tuition and will spend six weeks living in Boulder, Colorado.^[4][5][2][6]

In 2012 he left the non-profit Unreasonable Institute to launch "Unreasonable Group", a private holding company of for-profit organizations that was spun out of Unreasonable Institute,^[4][7][8] including:

• Unreasonable Adventures, founded in 2005, which sells booking software for tourism services.
• Unreasonable at Sea, a partnership between Unreasonable Institute, Stanford d.school (Institute of Design at Stanford), and Semester at Sea.^[9][4][9]
• Unreasonable Media, the production company that produces all multimedia collateral for Unreasonable ventures.^[10][11]
• Unreasonable.is, a web site for social entrepreneurs.^[8]
• Girl Effect Accelerator, business accelerator program aimed to benefit millions of girls in poverty to unleash The Girl Effect. ^[12]

Personal life

Epstein was born in Blaine, Washington. Epstein studied philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated in 2009.^[13]

References

1. Rivard, Ry. "Stopping a Shortcut to In-State Tuition". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 12 Aug 2014.
2. Seligson, Hannah. "Unreasonable, Maybe, but It's a Social Mission". New York Times Business Day. New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
3. "Interview with Daniel Epstein, Founder of The Unreasonable Group". GoBright.co. BrightCo. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
4. Fein, Donna. "Inside the Radical Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs". http://www.inc.com/30under30/donna-fenn/tyler-hartung-daniel-epstein-teju-ravilochan-founders-of-the-unreasonable-institute.html. Inc. External link in |website= (help);
5. "Forbes Impact 30". Forbes. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
6. McMahan, Ty. "Turning Unreasonable Ideas into Reality". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
7. "Social Innovation Summit 2013 Speakers". Social Innovation Summit 2013. Landmark Ventures. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
8. "LAUNCH: Social Impact Careers Conference". Retrieved 15 July 2014.
9. Syed, Saira. "Social tech entrepreneurs on around the world voyage". BBC News Business. BBC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
10. "Writers". Unreasonable Group. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
11. Stoiber, Marc. "How Fast Can an Unreasonable Idea Grow?". Huffington Post Small Business. Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
12. "Greenlight planet joins accelerator program aimed at benefiting poor girls". FastCompany.com. Fast Company. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
13. Fein, Donna. "Inside the Radical Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs". Inc. Retrieved 12 July 2014.