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Never Get A “Real” Job – Scott Gerber
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Interview, Slide Show on 8 Dec, 2010
Scott Gerber is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, media personality, public speaker and the most-syndicated young entrepreneurship columnist in the world. He is the founder and CEO of Gerber Enterprises, an entrepreneurial incubator and venture management company that invests capital, management expertise, and marketing services into innovative early and mid-stage companies. Scott is also the Founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an advocacy group made up of many of the world’s top young entrepreneurs that works to help young people overcome the devastating effects of youth unemployment and underemployment by teaching them how to build businesses, and the author of the book, Never Get a “Real” Job....
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – LeeAnn Piazzola
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 6 Dec, 2010
Today we are talking to LeeAnn Piazzola the next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. LeeAnn, a mother of five, worked as an Account Manager for NBC Universal for the last 8 ½ years maintaining a client list worth nearly $10 million. After loosing her best friend, father in law, and ex-husband LeAnn found it difficult to focus on her career as well as spend time with her kids while working 14 hours a day. She and her sister started DiaperBuds, when a patent to their invention was granted. Today, her company is growing along with her joy of following her dream. Let’s dig deeper into her success story…...
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Employee Turned Comedian – Dan Nainan
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 1 Dec, 2010
Get ready to laugh and learn with our today’s guest, because today we’ve an employee turned entrepreneur, no scratch that, we’ve a geek turned professional comedian with us. Ladies & gentlemen, I’m chatting with Dan Nainan, the former Intel geek who took comedy classes to improve his public speaking and fight the stage fright and never looked back to geekry (if that’s a word) and is making his mark in the comedy world. Today, in addition to hundreds of comedy shows around the world, Dan has been in TV commercials and we will soon see him in two major motion pictures… Here’s our chat where he candidly talks about his journey from a geek to comedian… ...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Laurence Lafforgue
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 29 Nov, 2010
Today we are talking to Laurence Lafforgue the next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Working as a top level ad-agency executive, Laurence made the employee to entrepreneur transition by utilizing her hobby of collecting art. Her passion began in 1999 with her first piece, a tribute to her childhood fascination with Japanese Manga. Today her company prides itself on bringing art to everyone by offering fresh and affordable works of art. Let’s dig deeper into her success story…...
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Happy Thanksgiving! Plus a Holidays Marketing Tip!
Posted Under: Announcement on 25 Nov, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!! This post is to THANK each and everyone of you aspiring entrepreneurs, the supporters, the guests, the experts, the readers, the viewers, the fans, and the followers all around the world, who come to our blog, facebook, twitter et all, give feedback, cheer and encourage us to do better!...
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