At TechCrunch50, Founder and CEO Dan Olsen’s startup, YourVersion won the People’s Choice Award with a majority of the 1,500 conference attendees’ votes. YourVersion, which was recently launched this past September, is an innovative discovery engine that delivers real time, relevant results and makes recommendations based on users’ interests and past searches. Dan’s engine attempts to reduce the clutter found in online searching and discovers the links that really matter for each individual user.

After receiving an MBA at Stanford, Dan worked for various companies in the high tech industry and in naval engineering for 18 years. In 2004, Dan worked at Friendster before setting off to start his own lustrous consulting firm, Olsen Solutions LLC, where he consulted numerous internet startups like Box.net, YouSendIt, and Moodlogic. In 2007, Dan took a bold leap by creating his own startup, which he operates out of the house he lives in. The passion and dedication shared by Dan and his team led to YourVersion’s thrilling launch at the recent TechCrunch50 conference. Dan gets personal about the humble beginnings of a startup and the passion that keeps pushing him forward.

Here I speak to Dan about:
- How YourVersion got started
- His toughest experience in building YourVersion
- How he manages things that are out of his control
- What he thinks YourVersion did differently to win the People’s Choice Award
- Why it’s so important to have a “Launch Culture”
- And his advice to future founders

Below are short clips from our meeting.

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