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GenJuice is back!
Posted Under: Announcement on 20 Aug, 2011
Many of you may remember GenJuice from last year. Yes, GenJuice tour is back with more awesomeness. We as the advocate of entrepreneurship & innovation have always supported such initiatives and are proud to be a part of GenJuice. I personally, wish I was in one of the cities they are going to tour! So, the GenJuice Team is hopping into a car and touring the country to help the up and coming 20-something leaders of our nation learn how to stand out above the noise; they’re touring to help all of us make a name for ourselves. They’re going to 15 cities. In each city they will bring together speakers from every background imaginable to answer one question in 5 minutes: “How did you build a following?”. Speakers include some of our awesome friends...
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Owner Is The New Entrepreneur
Posted Under: Entrepreneur on 25 Jul, 2011
Last week, I came across 5 reasons we need a new word for entrepreneurs, by Robert Jones of Penpoint Group. Robert suggests ‘Venturist’ or ‘Venturer’ and is requesting everyone to hashtag it over Twitter so it can be a trending topic & this “antipreneur” movement can gain momentum. Anyways, his list goes like… – It’s French. – It’s ridiculously hard to type. – It’s not Twitter friendly. – It’s been thoroughly bastardized. (mompreneur, solopreneur, and intrapreneur, etc.). – It’s begging for a lawsuit. (from Entrepreneur Magazine). I tweeted back at him suggesting ‘Owner’ be that new word to which he quickly replied: In a later tweet, he also told me that Tim Berry, President and founder of Palo Alto Software and Founder of...
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Awards Don’t Hurt!
Posted Under: Announcement on 11 Jul, 2011
Hello everyone! I’m super excited to write this post… Here’s why – yours truly has been nominated for three different awards this year. Click on each one of these below to see my nomination and vote! 1. Calgary Choice Awards 2011 for Best in Media Personality/ Celebrity 2. FuEL Awards 2011 Best Young Entrepreneurs of Canada and 3. Small Business Influencers Awards 2011 While Calgary Choice Awards is a city level award focused on recognizing the City’s best businesses and talent, the FuEl Awards are to spotlight the up and coming young entrepreneurs and leaders of Canada and the Small Business Influencer Award is to identify and recognize the Top 100 Influencers in Small Business domain across North America. To be nominated along with the who’s who like Guy Kawasaki,...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Shelly Sun
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 8 Jul, 2011
Today we are talking to Shelly Sun our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Former VP of Finance at Avolar, decided to start a business when she painfully saw the need for it firsthand. Compelled by the loss of a loved one for lack of dependable, supportive, and complete care, Shelly founded BrightStar as a family business in 2002. With 130 locations in US and International expansion in the works, BrightStar is an established elder care, child care and medical staffing provider today. Let’s dig deeper in her story…...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Niko Pipaloff
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 4 Jul, 2011
Happy 4th of July everyone! July 4th is the Independence Day for America but we celebrate independence everyday an employee breaks the 9to5 jail and declares his/her independence. We feature those freedom fighters here as “Our Heroes” and today’s guest under that series is – Niko Pipaloff. A Management Consultant by profession, Niko recently broke the 9to5 jail after winning the StartupWeekendNYC last month (June’11) and is enjoying the cheers and challenges of his startup – Tagify.us Let’s congratulate Niko on his new found freedom and talk to him to find out more…...
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