Description of Duke School of Business Video: Are you wondering when is a good time to start your own company? Two alumni, Jesse Lipson CEO of Sharefile, and Brooks Bell, CEO of Brooks Bell Interactive, return to Duke to discuss the basics of entrepreneurship with students.

A self-taught software programmer and entrepreneur, Jesse Lipson ’00 has been involved in several successful startups including Rapidata.net, Brooks Bell Interactive, and ShareFile. As CEO, Jesse has overseen the growth of ShareFile to over 7,000 customers in less than four years. Brooks Bell ’02 co-founded novelProjects, a web design and development firm, when she was a senior at Duke. After graduating, she founded Brooks Bell Interactive, which is now one of the top five marketing firms in the Raleigh-Durham area.