{"id":4407,"date":"2016-06-19T00:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/19\/how-this-31-year-old-parlayed-a-spine-injury-into-a-500-million-company\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T00:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T16:47:26","slug":"how-this-31-year-old-parlayed-a-spine-injury-into-a-500-million-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/19\/how-this-31-year-old-parlayed-a-spine-injury-into-a-500-million-company\/","title":{"rendered":"How this 31-year-old parlayed a spine injury into a $500 million company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f118845%2flisa-falzone-2__1___2___1___1___2_-1\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/I5YY_hYEeFMblW5NUTD1ZfYAAos=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F118845%2FLisa-Falzone-2__1___2___1___1___2_-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=How+this+31-year-old+parlayed+a+spine+injury+into+a+%24500+million+company&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F18%2Frevel-systems-lisa-falzone%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F18%2Frevel-systems-lisa-falzone%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Right now, Lisa Falzone is on the brink of something big. Six years ago, she was laid up, flat on her back after slipping a disk while moving a couch.<\/p>\n<p>Falzone was 25 at the time, a recent graduate of Stanford University, with big dreams but little time to pursue them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was actually pretty lucky,&#8221; Falzone told <i>Mashable <\/i>about the injury. &#8220;I had always wanted to start a company, but finding time to focus while working for someone else was difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The company she would end up co-founding thanks to her injury, Revel Systems, is now one of the most successful new players in the point-of-sale market, competing with the likes of Square and ShopKeep for a global market <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandviewresearch.com\/industry-analysis\/point-of-sale-pos-terminals-market\">value around $42 billion<\/a>.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/18\/revel-systems-lisa-falzone\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/square\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Square<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/startups\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Startups<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/U1LFxb5YbC8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, Lisa Falzone is on the brink of something big. Six years ago, she was laid up, flat on her back after slipping a disk while moving a couch. Falzone was 25 at the time, a recent graduate of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/19\/how-this-31-year-old-parlayed-a-spine-injury-into-a-500-million-company\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}