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Archive for the “Entrepreneurship” Category
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Regina Stone
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 4 Jun, 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m back and am back with lots of good stories to share! Today’s story is of Regina Stone, an internal auditor (read: employee) turned boutique owner. let’s dig deeper to find out why she chose to escape out of the Corporate America and how she did it! Here we go…...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Suzanne Meyer
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 14 Mar, 2011
Today we are talking to Suzanne Meyer, next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. She moved to N. Carloina in 1994 and was welcomed by a Welcome Wagon hostess who referred her to doctors, dentists, and other local establishments that she needed. After spending 27 years in media, sales and marketing, she also became a Welcome Wagon Representative. For over 3 years she had the pleasure of representing local businesses by handing out coupons and housewarming gifts to newcomers in the neighborhood until one fine morning she got a 90 day notice that her company was being sold and the new company didn’t have plans to continue the Welcome Wagon program. Let’s talk to her and find out more… ...
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Let’s Get Unstuck With Barry Moltz!
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Interview, Slide Show on 2 Mar, 2011
Today, I’m chatting with Barry Moltz, the Author of 3 successful books, a frequent Speaker on everything entrepreneurship, a Business Consultant, and most importantly the guy who gets small businesses unstuck. Barry gets business owners growing again by unlocking their long forgotten potential. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. ...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Ed Muzio
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 1 Mar, 2011
Today we are talking to Ed Muzio, our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Ed is a former employee of Intel where his work ranged from planning future technologies to running development programs for employees. Ed took a sabbatical from his company to reflect on his career and allow enough time to prepare for the employee to entrepreneur transition. He managed to accomplish quite a few things during his transition like helping his parents and starting and running a non-profit during his sabbatical. Let’s dive deeper into his success story…...
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Chat With Michelle Goodman!
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Interview, Startup on 24 Feb, 2011
Michelle Goodman fled the cube in 1992 to become a freelance writer and never to look back. She is the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube, and the “sequel,” My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire. She writes a weekly career column for ABCNews.com and a blog called Nine to Thrive for NWjobs.com. Her reported pieces about alternative careers, human mating rituals, and other pop culture phenom have graced such media outlets as CNN.com, Salon, BUST, Bitch, The Bark, Seattle Times, Yahoo! HotJobs, PayScale.com, and many more....
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