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Archive for the “Entrepreneurship” Category
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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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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Satish Kanwar
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 20 Nov, 2010
Today’s guest is employee turned entrepreneur – Satish Kanwar, a Technology Entrepreneur, Partner at JetCooper, Marketer, Geek, Go-getter, Evangelist, Listener and a Dreamer. He is very active in the Toronto Startup scene as well as TEDxToronto and LeanCoffeeTO. In this video Satish shares his journey from an employee to entrepreneur, how he leveraged his corporate jail time to better prepare himself for the mission entrepreneurship… The video is full of information & inspiration from someone who has been and still is in the entrepreneurial trenches! Give it a look! ...
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Happy Entrepreneurs’ Day
Posted Under: Announcement, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship on 19 Nov, 2010
Remember, that post 5 Reasons to have a National Entrepreneur’s Day back in May this year! I wrote that to support the great initiative by Grasshopper Group who pitched a petition to the President to mark a day on calendar to recognize the entrepreneurs, to show them they matter, to tell the rest of the world that America still has entrepreneurship at it’s core values and will continue doing so… Thousands of entrepreneurs, their families, organizations and people in general came forward and signed the petition via Facebook, Twitter and blog posts!...
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