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Archive for the “Entrepreneur” Category
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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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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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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Julie Braun
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 27 Jun, 2011
Next “Our Heroes” guest is Julie Braun, the proud half of the SuperIntern duo! Former VP of Marketing & Creative Service for a large corporate was ‘let go’ along with many of her colleagues which is when Julie took time off to reflect on her career and life. Let’s talk to Julie and find out how this ‘creative’ type charted her own path to success…...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Jesse Mecham
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 22 Jun, 2011
Our next guest under the ‘Our Heroes‘ series is Jesse Mecham, former CPA, now Founder of “You Need A Budget”. Jesse’s personal need and pain of not having an easy to use budgeting system that works too, made him work on a side project which he later on launched and scaled into full blown business that helps thousands of individuals and families have a debt free life, save more, and eventually stop living paycheck to paycheck. Let’s find out more…...
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