By Kate Bramson and Paul Grimaldi
Journal Staff Writers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Danny Warshay recalls a time when people in Rhode Island who wanted to create their own companies from scratch were considered oddballs, or even "mutants."
He was one of them, back when he graduated from Brown University in 1987 and was developing a software start-up here. Nobody understood him or his peers, he says, and when they ultimately sold their start-up to Apple, that compelled them to relocate to the West Coast.
Times have changed, he says.
"Nobody thinks of entrepreneurs as mutants anymore. They're coveted," says Warshay, who lives in Rhode Island once again and is executive chairman of a fast-growing Rhode Island company, G-Form.
Warshay joined other entrepreneurs and more traditional businesspeople on Tuesday at The Garage, the reinvented business exposition put on by the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce with hopes of kick starting a still-struggling Rhode Island economy.
Read more in The Providence Sunday Journal series, "#eWave: The Digital Revolution," about The Garage's efforts to bolster the Ocean State's economy. Find the series online here.
And join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #eWave about how technology is affecting the ways we live, work and play.