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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

Career reinvention is a powerful journey, and this article showcases real-world examples from successful entrepreneurs. We started with the same questions many entrepreneurs ask: Is there a real market? In June 2007, I applied to work for a tech startup based out of New York City’s Silicon Alley. We were in four cities.

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Today’s entrepreneurs weigh in: Is entrepreneurship a lonely journey?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

At the core of Entrepreneurs’ Organization ‘s mission is helping entrepreneurs achieve their full potential. That stark statistic illustrates the tide the entrepreneur wades against in their efforts to create a viable business. Indeed, the life of an entrepreneur brings with it multiple demands: physical.

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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 used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship. I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. That was the year Twitter took off.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Her response?

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3 Gratitude Habits for Business Leaders to Motivate Your Team — and Yourself

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Business problems and other life responsibilities in 2007 took control and made some days outright bad ones. Barry Raber is a serial entrepreneur, president of Carefree RV Storage , a 22-year member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , the founder of Business Property Trust , and an EO Portland Entrepreneur of the Year.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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My Journey from GSEA Global Finalist to Digital Nomad

Entrepreneurs' Organization

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , our vision is to build the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs. A global finalist in the 2007 GSEA competition, he is now an EO Minnesota member who owns five businesses. Tyler Olson is one such GSEA alumni. because that’s what people would often call me and say?was