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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

From 2000 to 2004, I held jobs that allowed me to travel the country. I wrote things like: freedom, creativity, intellectual stimulation, writing, psychology. Through these experiences, I learned how to build audiences, generate demand, and lead with creativity. Everyone at the time was saying, “Work for your passion!”

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives a Mission to Connect People With Popongo

StartupNation

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. Fulfilling a need – creativity spurs inspiration. I decided to challenge my creativity and figure out a new game that would appeal to the masses.

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Are you ready to rumble, TechCrunch style?

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. We celebrate our big successes, and rally together with creative solutions when challenged. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year.