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Anthony Adams

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Anthony Adams is an internet entrepreneur best known for the creation and marketing of THC-The Hangover Cure, an all natural powder drink mix designed to help you when you’ve had too much fun. The idea initially came to Adams while still in college as an obvious need for college students and young professionals that was highly under-served at the time. Adams worked as a software sales rep out of college and was laid off in early 2009. Instead of moving laterally in his career with another unfulfilling “real” job, Adams launched his brand... find out more

Brian Adams

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Brian Adams is a serial entrepreneur. Adams is the founder and President of BA Interests, a venture accelerator and incubator that helps entrepreneurs and small business owners launch and grow new and current business ventures. While attending college as a finance major at University of Alabama, Brian founded his first business, Bama Butler, LLC, a pick-up and delivery laundry service that catered to busy college students. While in college Brian had several entrepreneurial ventures including t-shirt printing, graphic design,... find out more

David Adelman

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David Adelman is the Founder and CEO of Reel Tributes, the premier producer of high- end personal history documentaries. Reel Tributes’ films preserve timeless stories and memories through interviews, photographs, narration, and music. David is currently working toward his Masters in Business Administration at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, majoring in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management. At Wharton, David is on the Director’s List, with a GPA in the top 10 percent of his class. He is president of the Comedy Club... find out more

Sean Aiken

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Sean Aiken is the creator of The One Week Job Project – an inspiring journey across North America in which he worked 52 jobs in 52 weeks to find his passion. He trekked more than 55,000 miles, slept on 55 couches, and tried every job he could: Bungee Instructor, Dairy Farmer, Advertising Executive, Baker, NHL Mascot, Stock Trader, Firefighter, and more. Sean’s been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Globe & Mail, on CNN, 20/20, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, CBC, MTV, and countless other media outlets... find out more

Amanda Aitken

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Amanda Aitken is a multipassionate entrepreneur with an addiction to building creative businesses and busting through the status quo. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours degree in Media, Information and Technoculture, she honed her skills in online marketing and copywriting working in the corporate world while freelancing as a web designer and translator. But her independent streak had other plans, and it wasn't long before she had founded The Stylish Copywriter, a boutique fashion, beauty and design... find out more

Ryan Allis

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Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and social entrepreneur from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of iContact, a leading email marketing company. iContact has grown from its start in 2003 to more than 65,000 customers, 230 employees, and $40M in annual sales. Ryan is the author of the book Zero to One Million from McGraw-Hill. Ryan is the founder of the Humanity Fund which invests in high-growth socially responsible companies in the USA, Africa, and Latin America and is the Board Chairman of the non-profit Nourish... find out more

Sam Altman

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Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of Loopt, a company that builds mobile applications to help people enjoy the friends, places, and events around you right now. Sam sees mobile location as helping to make serendipity happen, completely transforming how people can and will communicate on their mobile devices. Since founding the company in 2005 while studying at Stanford University, Sam has consistently been recognized for his entrepreneurship. He was featured in Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30, BusinessWeek’s Tech’s Best... find out more

Nick Arora

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Nikhil Arora is a co-founder of Back to the Roots (www.bttrventures.com), a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm that transforms coffee ground waste into the growing medium for gourmet mushrooms, mushroom kits and provides sustainable DIY products for families and kids. Nikhil also serves as chair of the board of directors for Alpha Epsilon Zeta, a South-Asian professional network and serves on the board for the Sage Mentorship Project, a one- to-one mentorship group connecting UC Berkeley students with local, disadvantaged elementary... find out more

Arjun Arora

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Arjun Arora is the founder and CEO of ReTargeter, a simple and effective online advertising platform. ReTargeter focuses on bringing bounced visitors back to your website, improving your conversion rates and overall ROI, and is available to businesses of all sizes. Prior to ReTargeter, Arjun was the Head of Business Development at Yahoo! Real Estate, where he first saw the opportunity in retargeting. Traditionally, retargeting was only available for $50,000+ minimum spends, but through ReTargeter, Arjun was able to democratize... find out more

Steph Auteri

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Steph Auteri is the founder of Career Coaching for Word Nerds, a company created with an eye toward building a community of fellow word nerds and publishing professionals who can share stories, experiences, tips, and resources with their peers, and also connect with established experts within the industry. Steph offers one-on-one coaching and consulting, and an e-course for freelance writers. Her services are for those trying to find their way through the publishing industry. They're also for those who don’t know how to write a query letter...... find out more

Jeff Avallon

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Jeff Avallon is a Co-Founder of IdeaPaint, the producer of the innovative, dry-erase paint product that can transform any “paintable” surface into a high performance dry-erase writing surface. Jeff joined IdeaPaint early in product development and was influential in raising initial angel and institutional financing. Jeff was also responsible for the planning and execution of the launch of IdeaPaint’s first- generation product IdeaPaint PRO and determining the company’s overall channel strategy. Currently, Jeff focuses on managing... find out more

Joel Backaler

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Joel Backaler is an international business development professional and founder of the award-winning online publication, TheChinaObserver.com. He has been quoted in and published by media outlets such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and The Huffington Post. Joel is a fluent Mandarin speaker and former Fulbright Scholar who has a deep understanding of how to build businesses outside of the US. Through his experience working with CEOs of Emerging Markets operations for Fortune 500 MNCs at Frontier Strategy Group, Joel understands... find out more

Eric Bahn

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Eric Bahn is the Founder and Vice President of Beat The GMAT (www.beatthegmat.com), the largest MBA applicant social network on the Internet serving 2 million people each year. In 2005, Eric began Beat The GMAT as a hobby test prep blog from his college dorm room. Since then, his hobby has evolved into an enormous MBA admissions community featuring 100 expert writers, a 100,000+ member discussion community, and the world’s largest GMAT scholarship program ($250,000 distributed to date). Beat The GMAT never received any outside funding and... find out more

Adam Baker

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Adam Baker is a husband, father, and founder of Man Vs. Debt LLC. He teaches people how to opt-out of the traditional life path by selling their excess crap, paying off their debt, and aggressively pursuing their passions. In 2008, Baker and his wife Courtney did just that. They sold everything they own, attacked their debt, and backpacked through Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand with their one-year-old daughter. The Bakers can now be found touring the United States in their new-to-them, 31.5 foot... find out more

David Barnes

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David Barnes is the founder and President of GAIT, a personal brand development and management consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He is passionate about providing his clients with the resources to project an attitude of confidence and success while creating their personal brands through fashion styling and communications coaching. David honed his skills in communications as the former press secretary of the House Foreign Affairs Committee where he managed the public image of its Chairman, Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-CA). He also worked... find out more

Corbett Barr

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Corbett Barr is founder of Insanely Useful Media, the online publishing and education company that produces the popular blogs Think Traffic and CorbettBarr.com. Corbett believes the true promise of the Internet is that each of us can build a thriving lifestyle business that makes us happy, lets us live the life we want and makes the world a better place. His company and blogs are dedicated to making that vision possible for anyone who wants... find out more

Scott Becker

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Scott Becker is a technical entrepreneur, startup advisor, and angel investor. He was Co-Founder and CTO of Invite Media, a venture backed advertising startup that was acquired by Google in 2010. Scott is currently focused on entering the biotech and pharmaceutical... find out more

Lisa Nicole Bell

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Lisa Nicole Bell is equal parts artist, businesswoman and motivator. Starting her first company at nineteen, Lisa is now an internationally recognized speaker and published author. Lisa is the CEO of Inspired Life Media Group where she and her team meld art, social change, and commerce to create economically viable media properties. Using film, television, stage, and new media, Lisa illuminates social issues and personal development themes with thoughtful and unique angles. Her critically acclaimed book, Divine Inspirations, teaches readers... find out more

Scott Belsky

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Scott Belsky believes that the greatest breakthroughs across all industries are a result of creative people and teams that are especially productive. As such, Scott has committed his professional life to help organize creative individuals, teams, and networks. Scott is the founder of Behance, a company that develops products and services for the creative industries. Behance oversees the Behance Network (Behance.net), the world’s leading online platform for creative professionals; The 99% (The99percent.com), Behance's think tank and annual... find out more

Doug Bend

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Doug Bend is the principal of The Law Office of Doug Bend, a law firm focused on start-up and small businesses. He is also the General Counsel for Modify Industries, Inc. and tIFc LLC, the West Coast Representative for Liquid Capital Management LLC and a Legal Mentor in The Hub Ventures Program. He prides himself in providing individuals and businesses with quality legal representation in forming, maintaining and growing business entities of many types, including corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships and in... find out more

Lauren Berger

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Business Week Magazine named Lauren Berger number 5 on their annual list of Young Entrepreneurs 25 Under 25. America Online says, “If you are going to college and wondering what you are going to do this summer – you need to look her up.” Mobile Youth has placed her in the top 10 Youth Marketing Minds of 2010. Lauren Berger is CEO of Intern Queen Inc, an online internship destination that helps students find and apply for internships while also educating them on how to make the most of their experiences. Berger grew up in Clearwater,... find out more

Gabrielle Bernstein

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Featured in the New York Times Sunday Styles section as the next generation guru, motivational speaker, life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein is making her mark. Expanding the lexicon for the next generation, Gabrielle is a #1 bestselling author of the book Add More ~ing to Your Life – A hip guide to happiness. In September 2011 Gabrielle’s launches second book entitled Spirit Junkie, A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles. (Both books are published by Random House.) Gabrielle was just one year out of college, when she co-founded the... find out more

Ross Beyeler

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A graduate of Babson College, Ross Beyeler has been an active entrepreneur in the technology space since 2005 with experience ranging in digital marketing, business development and strategic management. In 2007, Ross co-founded For Art’s Sake Media, Inc., a technology company servicing the art industry, where he led the organization through its seed funding, team building and product launch. In December 2008, Ross went on to start Growth Spark, a web design and marketing firm with a focus on conversion optimization. Growth Spark's success... find out more

Lauren Maillian Bias

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Lauren Maillian Bias is the Founder and CEO of Luxury Market Branding, a strategic marketing and branding consultancy where she brings her firsthand knowledge, expertise and passion for marketing to her clients. Lauren's newest venture allows her to work closely with her clients to create and implement plans that establish and maintain brand identity that is consistent with her client’s long-term goals, vision and company mission. Prior to launching her newest venture, Luxury Market Branding, Lauren was the Proprietor, Creator and Chief... find out more

Jenny Blake

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Jenny Blake is an author, blogger, life coach and yoga teacher. She is currently on a three-month sabbatical from Google to go on a self-funded 14-city book tour for her recently released book, Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want. Jenny describes her book as a portable life coach for 20-somethings, filled with tips, quotes and coaching exercises to help people focus on the BIG picture of their lives…not just the details. Jenny has worked at Google for over five years in training, coaching & career development.... find out more

Erin Blaskie

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When you think of passionate love affairs, it’s not often that you also think about Internet Marketing. However, when you meet Erin Blaskie, you realize that those two things meld together in a way that just makes sense. Erin Blaskie started her first company at the age of 21. After launching BSETC, a professional outsourcing team, she joined forces with some of the top Internet Marketers to support, build, grow and sell some amazing companies. To date, Erin and her team have serviced over 300 entrepreneurs in countless countries around... find out more

Ashley Bodi

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Ashley Bodi is the co-founder of BusinessBeware.Biz a website that helps business owners warn each other about customers who have become a problem and collect from those who are slow to pay. Ashley started the site with her father Robert after learning that there was such a huge need for business owners to have a place to share their side of the story where they could have a "voice." With the concept being such an amazing hit with business owners nationwide they started the Business Beware Show where they talk about why the customer is not always... find out more

Paul Bragiel

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Paul Bragiel is the co-founder of i/o ventures, a startup accelerator with a funky workspace+cafe in San Francisco. Previously he co-founded Lefora, a product bringing forums into the 21st century, Meetro, the first location based social network and was the founder of Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile with offices in Chicago and... find out more

Thursday Bram

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After graduating from college, Thursday Bram started the traditional job hunt — and landed a job fairly quickly. She left that job even faster, after less than two weeks, throwing herself back into the freelance writing she'd done during college. That writing evolved into Hyper Modern Consulting, focused on providing online content consulting and... find out more

Christen Brandt

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Christen Brandt uses her entrepreneurial spirit to impact the lives of girls in the developing world. As Executive Director and Vice President of She’s the First, a not-for-profit dedicated to sponsoring girls' education, she has been instrumental in the branding, design, and growth of the organization. As executive director, she oversees the directory of partner organizations working on the ground in developing countries. Christen graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University in December of 2010. She's the first in her family to work in... find out more

Juliette Brindak

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Juliette Brindak, 21, is the co-founder and CEO of Miss O and Friends. Miss O and Friends is a lifestyle socialization brand for tween (8-14) girls. Through our website, www.missoandfriends.com, we aim to help young girls build self-esteem. Juliette, now a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, started Miss O and Friends as an act of play when she was ten years old. At age 10, Juliette tapped into her artistic creative side, drawing what she referred to as "cool girls." Along with the help of her sister, mom and other girls, after 5 years... find out more

Nathaniel Broughton

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Nathaniel Broughton is an internet entrepreneur and investor. Dating to 2002, he has helped produce 3 Inc 500 award-winning companies. His current projects include an investment fund and online marketing group at GrowthPartner.com, a nationwide bonding agency at SuretyBonds.com, and a retargeting “extension” network at WhitePixel.com. He previously served as CEO of Plus1 Marketing, LakeRentals.com, and CMO of VAMortgageCenter.com, a $60 million nationwide mortgage bank. Specialties include domaining, buying/selling companies, SEO campaign... find out more

Felicia Brown

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Many celebrities, youth and world leaders have named her as “The Voice of the Youth.” Felicia Brown is the founder of Youth Talk, LLC, The Voice of the Youth, Inc. and Felicia Brown Talks, LLC, a children and youth new media company that produces her national talk show, “Youth Talk with Felicia Brown.” Youth Talk with Felicia Brown Talk Show is dedicated to empowering, educating and entertaining children and youth. Felicia was inspired to create her own talk show after interviewing Nick Cannon and Common. “I remember hip hop icon... find out more

Michael Bruny

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Mike "Ambassador" Bruny is the founder and principal of Ambassador Bruny dot com. Ambassador Bruny runs a professional and personal coaching practice focused mainly on helping young professionals and businesses Run the Point (take action) from where they are, with what they have. He helps them become more marketable, gain clarity and focus on their most important goals through his professional life/success coaching and programs. Just when you thought he was just another certified life coach Mike combined his passion for hip... find out more

Daniel Brusilovsky

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Daniel Brusilovsky is currently the founder and CEO of Teens in Tech Labs, a company dedicated to providing tools and resources to entrepreneurs world-wide. He also works at JESS3, a creative agency specializing in data visualization, working as a Strategist. In the past, Daniel has worked at some amazing startups including Qik (acquired by Skype), TechCrunch (acquired by Aol), atebits (acquired by Twitter), and Apture. Daniel also works with Tatango and Taptivate as an advisor, focusing on business development, strategy and marketing. Prior to... find out more

Luke Burgis

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Luke Burgis, C.S.C.S., is the Executive Director of the ActivPrayer Institute for Christian Fitness. ActivPrayer is a faith-based fitness organization that helps people integrate prayer into their active lives to improve both their spiritual life and their performance. Prior to ActivPrayer, Luke co-founded three companies in the wellness industry, beginning with the country's first healthy vending program and an online health site that grew to over $5 million in sales. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Luke worked in investment banking and... find out more

Jacob Cass

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Jacob Cass is a dedicated, passionate and influential designer who has recently emigrated from Sydney, Australia to NYC to pursue his career in the world of visual communication. Jacob has worked with clients such as Disney, Red Bull, Nike & Star Wars and although his skill set is vast, his major skill sets lie in the world of visual design, brand identity, brand strategy, UX, UI, new media design and print design. Jacob has a thorough understanding of social media and the latest web technologies which has allowed him to build up a strong... find out more

Ben Cathers

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Ben Cathers is the co-founder of InstantSocial - a social media software and consulting firm whose mission is to help companies, influential individuals, and organizations of all sizes and technical experience engage in social media. InstantSocial's featured product is the InstantSocial Platform - a robust, cost effective solution for social media managers at small to large organizations. InstantSocial also offers consulting services aimed at helping to solve the "social media question" for companies. Ben is responsible for all aspects of... find out more

Shaherose Charania

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Shaherose Charania is passionate about open innovation in mobile and telephony startups. She is currently running Founder Labs - a pre-team, pre-idea incubator for new mobile startups. She is also an advisor at Opinno, an open innovation network for growth stage startups across web, mobile, cleantech and biotech. She is also a mentor with 500Startups. Recently she consulted Ribbit (acquired by British Telecom) on various consumer product.s and market launches. Previously, she was Director of Product Management at Talenthouse where she lead the... find out more

Pete Chatmon

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In today's age of Social Media, writer/producer/director, Pete Chatmon is the guy you want behind the lens. Whether feature filmmaking, commercials, music or viral videos, Chatmon develops content with one focus: to engage and entertain audiences and consumers through honest storytelling. Previous credits include the romantic dramedy "Premium", starring Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper, "761st", a documentary on the first black tank battalion in WWII narrated by Andre Braugher, and a variety of social media campaigns for... find out more

Matt Cheuvront

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Matt Cheuvront is a marketer, designer, speaker and all around good guy to know - with a mission to change the world, one brand at a time. In early 2010, Matt left corporate America to become a full-time entrepreneur. After running his own design firm in Chicago, he moved to Nashville to start Proof Branding, a full-service branding and design firm specializing in identity development and creation for small businesses, non-profits, and entrepreneurs. In his spare time, he writes at LifeWithoutPants.com about less 'restricted' living, spends time... find out more

Sean Coleman

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Sean Coleman graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University in 2009 with a B.S.E in Computer Systems Engineering. With an extensive background in technology entrepreneurship, Sean successfully ran a profitable web design firm for over five years, developing extensive business relationships with hundreds of clients. As an undegraduate student, Sean completed his Honors Thesis, "When Open Source Works: Criteria for Gauging Open Source Adoption Success" under the mentorship of ASU's University Technology Officer, Adrian Sannier. In... find out more

Ambria Cotten

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Ambria Cotten is an ambitious, forward thinking entrepreneur with a passion for her gift as a sign language interpreter. While still in high school, Ambria was introduced to sign language. Immediately she knew this was a field she would ultimately pursue. She recently graduated from college where she majored in Human Resource Management. She is presently working in her major field, but her goals extend far beyond the 9 to 5. Not afraid to go after her dreams, she created Silent Expressions Unlimited. She knows that she is destined to break... find out more

Nick Cronin

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Nick Cronin is a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur. Nick has worked in the in-house legal departments of two publicly traded corporations. From these experiences, he realized there was an inefficient market and set out to create an easier way for individuals and businesses to connect with professional service providers. This journey has led him to his newest venture, ExpertBids.com. This site allows individuals and businesses to get free, personalized bids from lawyers, accountants, and consultants. Along the way, Nick and his companies... find out more

Patrick Curtis

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Patrick Curtis is the CEO and co-founder of WallStreetOasis.com, an online community for finance professionals and jdOasis.com, an online community of legal professionals. He graduated with an MBA in entrepreneurial management from Wharton in 2010 and a BA in Economics from Williams College in 2002. While at Wharton, he was actively involved in the entrepreneurial community, with Wall Street Oasis selected into the Venture Initiation Program in 2008 and awarded the Wharton Venture Award in 2009. His prior experience includes two years in... find out more

Zach Cutler

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Zach Cutler is a dynamic entrepreneur and marketing professional who formed The Cutler Group, a communications firm, in 2009. He specializes in crafting innovative communication campaigns to help businesses and organizations thrive. Zach consults on foreign media to senior government officials and is a freelance contributor on entrepreneurship to the Washington Examiner. Zach received a BBA in Marketing from The George Washington University School of Business. He has interned at the White House, US Department of Commerce and Ogilvy PR. He... find out more

Sam Davidson

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Sam Davidson is a speaker, author, and dreamer who tells stories that need telling in order to motivate others to change the things that need changing. To do this, he has co-founded two companies, Cool People Care and Proof. He is the author of three books, New Day Revolution, 50 Things Your Life Doesn't Need, and Simplify Your Life. He frequently travels and speaks on topics ranging from social entrepreneurship to nonprofit management, and Generation Y to living a balanced life. He lives in Nashville with his wife and one-year-old... find out more

Abbie Davies

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Abbie Davies, owner and founder of My First Yoga, graduated from Harvard University where she studied how movement and exercise contribute to self-confidence and esteem. Abbie’s love for yoga combined with her passion for athletics and children, translated into her development of My First Yoga’s innovative curriculum. Abbie is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), Registered Children's Yoga Teacher (RCYT) and Certified Life is good Playmaker. Additionally, Abbie is the co-founder of Harvard's Entrepreurship Boot Camp designed to teach Harvard... find out more

Jesse Davis

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Jesse Davis is a Madison, WI based entrepreneur, and co-founder of Entrustet. From digital estate planning software to digital property searches, Entrustet is a leader in the growing digital death industry. The idea for Entrustet came to Davis when reading about the story of Justin Ellsworth in Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat. Entrustet has been featured in the NY Times Magazine, Fox Business, NPR, Forbes, CNN, Tech Crunch, and many more. Davis has become an active public speaker on the topic of digital death, including presentations at a... find out more

Jack Delosa

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Jack Delosa’s career, still in his twenties has spanned business, media and politics. Jackheaded up MBE Education growing it by 600% per annum, ultimately beinglisted in the Fastest Growing 50 Start-Ups in Australia by SmartCompany. The group of corporate advisors at MBE are today executing over $250 million incorporate transactions. Due to this overwhelming success at such a young age, Jack has been namedin the Top 10 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in Australia in the Dynamic BusinessMagazine Young Guns, and twice in Australian Anthill’s 30Under30... find out more

Sean Devlin

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Sean Devlin is the cofounder and director of product development for Front Rush (frontrush.com). Front Rush provides web-based and mobile applications to over 3000+ college teams nationwide to help manage their recruits, roster, alumni relations and athletic compliance. He cofounded the company in 2006 with his best friend from high school with the intent of changing the scope of college athletics by providing software that is easy...and even a bit fun to use. Sean also writes a tech column for dantudor.com which is a blog read by over 17,000... find out more

Lindsey Donner

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Lindsey Donner is a copywriter, editor, poet, and committed multi-tasker who graduated magna cum laude from NYU-Gallatin in 2006. She co-founded Well Versed Creative, a consultancy that partners with bloggers, authors, and small business owners to produce best-in-class copy, design and front-end web development--without agency overhead, attitude, or pablum. She and her husband, Luis Cortés, are also launching a second project: La Muerta, a line of limited-edition, curated t-shirts featuring artists from all over the world. La Muerta is a way of... find out more

Erica Douglass

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My name is Erica Douglass. I intend to show you how to become more successful in your life. I became financially successful at a young age, having sold my web hosting company for $1,100,000.00 at age 26. (But it wasn’t an easy road — as I talk about in The End of An Era.) After I sold my business, many people started asking me how I became so successful. I felt I needed an answer, and I honestly wasn’t sure, so I started a blog as an exploration into how anyone could become... find out more

Andy Drish

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Andy Drish is an entrepreneur, speaker and traveler. After dropping out of Corporate America, he built his company from scratch with no outside funding. He's the owner of the Referral Squirrel, the most effective plug and play system for sales professionals to generate more referrals in their businesses. He has spoken to thousands of people all over the nation about personal branding, building a business and connecting with talented, like-minded people. He is passionate about helping others take action on their ideas. When he's not playing... find out more

Jason Drohn

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Jason Drohn is a serial entrepreneur who embraces the speed of implementation that web-based business provides. He's started three successful offline business, has hundreds of websites and considers himself to be a master marketer. His passion is driving traffic, increasing revenue and connecting with other business owners who are working online. Outside of work, Jason loves writing and movies, traveling and animals. He's still trying to figure out how to rescue all the forgotten and abused animals in the... find out more

Jason Duff

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Jason Duff is a speaker, consultant, coach, award-winning serial entrepreneur from Columbus, Ohio. Recognized as one of Gen Y’s foremost business leaders, Jason’s ideas, projects, and business strategies have been recognized in numerous magazines and television networks –including ABC, FOX, Young Money, and INC Magazine. With achievements and credentials reading more common of a man twice his age, Duff's success is an example of how entrepreneurship and financial stewardship can transform communities locally, and abroad. As... find out more

Devesh Dwivedi

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Devesh Dwivedi is an entrepreneur who loves to help aspiring entrepreneurs. Devesh started his first business, a comics rental company, when he was only 14, and since then he has founded and co-founded several businesses. He has an MBA and worked for multiple Fortune 100s in Corporate America but being a square peg he never fit in that round hole. Currently, he is busy building his business consulting practice and helping the cubicle imprisoned aspiring entrepreneurs get out of the 9-5 rat race. Devesh loves reading, writing, cooking, golfing and... find out more

Kade Dworkin

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Kade Dworkin is a young, ambitious professional specializing in online marketing that specifically leverages social platforms. Even while working during the day at VaynerMedia under Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk he continues to be entrepreneurial by producing the Meet My Followers podcast where he interviews a different twitter follower each week and by building mastermind groups through the Interact.ly service he founded. He continues to sit on the Board of Advisors for PharmaCapture, a prescription medicine compliance company, and mentors several... find out more

Josh Allan Dykstra

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Josh Allan Dykstra is an author, speaker, consultant and agent of change. It is his mission to change the world by helping organizations become more vibrant and healthy places to work. Josh is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a collaborative consulting firm specializing in creating transformative cultural programs around employee engagement in small and mid-size companies. His graduate studies with the behavioral scientists at The Gallup Organization and highly eclectic work background spanning Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Starbucks, and... find out more

Jason Evanish

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Jason Evanish was interested in entrepreneurship starting in college as an electrical engineer at Northeastern University. During this time he started a project in his senior year that continued as he pursued his Master's in Technological Entrepreneurship also at Northeastern University. This first attempt at startup, called AIOSPAR, attempted to bring the electrical engineer's lab equipment into the dorm room, but ultimately failed due to a myriad of technical and marketing issues. Shortly after graduation, he found himself having difficulty... find out more

Brett Farmiloe

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Brett Farmiloe is gainfully unemployed. He currently is working on developing a variety of companies that range from discounted dining to sports focused mobile applications. He is also the author of Pursue the... find out more

Doug Fath

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Doug Fath has sold two businesses, developed a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio, and helped individuals throughout North America generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in passive income. Doug’s real estate endeavors began at the age of 22, when he bought his first four properties, while receiving his bachelor’s degree at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His portfolio has doubled in size every year since! Doug’s strategy of acquiring income-producing properties below market value has enabled him to... find out more

Rahim Fazal

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Rahim Fazal is a three-time entrepreneur, co-founding and successfully exiting a web-hosting company for $1.5 million dollars while taking his senior year final exams during high school. He then started a web services platform business and eventually took it public, becoming one of the youngest directors of a publicly traded company in the United States. He is an advisor to the Extreme Entrepreneurship Education Corporation in New York City and has been named one of America’s "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" by Inc. Magazine, and one of the "Top... find out more

Morgan First

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Morgan First was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and headed to Boston for college where she earned her degree from Emerson College in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. After graduating she started Motion Affair Planner (MAP) BOSTON a combination local city guide and planner that she printed for 3 years and sold successfully at Barnes and Noble locations across the city before switching her full-time focus to all things wine and social media. As Co-Founder and CEO of Second Glass Morgan is the networker, the press liaison and the... find out more

Tracy Foster

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Tracy Foster is the founder of ONA (pronounced ō’na), an emerging company that designs and sells fine camera bags and accessories for photographers. Tracy launched ONA in June 2010, aiming to provide photographers with stylish and discreet alternatives to the ubiquitous camera gear that she saw in the marketplace. She is one of three winners in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 I Am Free Enterprise Video Contest and has served as a panelist in the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. Prior to founding ONA, Tracy worked in the non-profit and... find out more

Nick Friedman

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Nick Friedman is President and Co-Founder of COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK, the largest and fastest growing US-Based Junk Removal Franchise Opportunity. He started the business in college with his best friend in a beat up cargo van, and now is a multi-million dollar operation with multiple franchises nationwide. He was recently named Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30 by INC Magazine, Top 35 Entrepreneurs Under 35 by Bisnow.com, and is an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist. College Hunks Hauling Junk was recently named... find out more

Lauren Friese

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Lauren Friese is the founder of TalentEgg.ca, Canada’s leading online career resource for students and recent grads. Lauren launched TalentEgg based on her own experiences transitioning from school into the workplace. She graduated from Queen’s University in 2005 and discovered that the school to work transition was not as seamless as she had anticipated. Like many of her peers, she decided to pursue graduate school, and earned her MSc from the London School of Economics the following year. In the UK Lauren discovered that the school to... find out more

Craig Fuller

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Craig Fuller is the founder of TransCard, a leading technology provider of virtual and mobile debit accounts. TransCard is one of the few privately-held prepaid processors in the world. His vision to combine mobile payment services with prepaid debit accounts has placed TransCard at the center of the mobile payment revolution. Many of the leading mobile payment applications chose TransCard as its processor to deliver mobile wallets and mobile virtual payment services. Community banks chose TransCard to outsource their low-balance... find out more

Gregory Galant

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Gregory Galant is the CEO of Sawhorse Media, a network of products that make it easy to find good people on the real time web including the Shorty Awards, Listorious, Venture Maven and Muck Rack. Sawhorse also powers sites in partnership with American Express, Conde Nast Style.com and Technorati. To help fellow entrepreneurs Greg hosts Venture Voice, a podcast interview series with top founders. Previously, Greg was an associate producer at CNN.com where he analyzed the latest trends in citizens' media. Greg has worked at Newlight Associates, a... find out more

David Siteman Garland

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Entrepreneur, mediapreneur, speaker and author David Siteman Garland is the Founder of The Rise To The Top, The #1 Non-Boring Resource For Building Your Business Smarter, Faster, Cheaper and upcoming author of Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Non-Boring, Fluff-free Strategies for Marketing and Promoting Your Business (Wiley Publishing). He hosts RISE, a web show focusing on interviews with unique, creative, passionate entrepreneurs viewed by over 100,000 big thinkers monthly as well as The Rise To The Top TV show on... find out more

Todd Garland

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Todd Garland is the founder of online advertising company BuySellAds.com. He bootstrapped BuySellAds from $0 to $1.5m in 11 months while working a full-time job and has continued to post impressive growth for the company since. Prior to BuySellAds Todd was Lead Designer of Cambridge, MA based marketing software company HubSpot. He would give any BuySellAds user the shirt off his back, and enjoys the thrill of tackling big challenges with small teams. He was born and raised in a small town in... find out more

Saul Garlick

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Saul Garlick is a social entrepreneur with a long history in public service. Saul is Founder and CEO of ThinkImpact, an global social enterprise that hosts the Innovation Institute, a 10-week full immersion opportunity for US students to live and work in rural Africa to end poverty through market-based solutions. He is best known for his leadership on poverty alleviation in Kenya and South Africa where he has played a direct role in the implementation of over 50 development projects including schools, sports fields, sanitation projects... find out more

Matt Gartland

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Matt Gartland is an editor for authors and entrepreneurs with big ambitions; helping them improve their content's quality and charisma for standout attention. He's also the co-founder and co-publisher of Brilliance Magazine, a micro-magazine sparking creative revelations through stories of inspiring originality. Matt believes in the spirit, philosophy, and practice of co-creation - a hyperactive model of total immersion, iterative design, and high-touch participation. Not surprisingly, Matt is at his creative best when innovating with other... find out more

Bert Gervais

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Bert Gervais, a.k.a. “The Mentor Guy” is one of America’s most in-demand professional speakers. He is a national best selling author, speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. Having been born in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, Bert quickly realized the value of seizing opportunities and encourages his peers to do the same. In college at Binghamton University, he was a student leader, activist, and an entrepreneur. His first company, an internet startup which sold in 2009, garnered many awards including the Entrepreneurs... find out more

Brenton Gieser

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Brenton Gieser is social entrepreneur and social media strategist focused on adding unique value through the products, projects and companies he builds. Brenton is a Co-Founder and Former President of ConvoSpark a social media develop agency that has developed social media campaigns and the technologies for companies like Taco Bell, Maxim, Tap Out, Visit Mexico, amongst others. He is currently building a social marketing platform for retail businesses (pre-launch) as their Chief Social Strategist and founding member. He is also the... find out more

Adam Gilbert

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What good is ANY diet or exercise program if we can't stick with it? Adam Gilbert, is the Founder and Chief Body Tutor of MyBodyTutor, a company he created in 2007 to help people finally stick to their diet and exercise plans, by providing daily and personal accountability like no other service in the world. Since then, MyBodyTutor has helped 100’s of people throughout the US and world get the body they want with its proven methods and system. Adam has been featured in numerous media outlets such as Good Morning America, The Huffington Post,... find out more

Henry Glucroft

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Henry Glucroft was born in NYC and grew up in both France and the US. His international upbringing has opened his mind, and helped him think across many boundaries. He co-founded "Airdrop", an artist development agency and record label while at Tufts University and developed relationships with artists from Europe to Latin America. More recently, he opened "little skips", a cafe in an emerging artistic Brooklyn neighborhood. While these two ventures consume the bulk of Henry's time, it does not stop him from brainstorming new ideas, helping other... find out more

Jordan Goldman

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Jordan Goldman is the author of Students' Guide to Colleges 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, from Penguin Books. He is also the founder and CEO of Unigo.com, which The Wall Street Journal called "a college resource built for the age of YouTube and Facebook", The New York Times called "vivid in a way no guidebook can match," and Always On named "One of the 100 Private Companies with the Biggest Impact on the Public Sector." Through an exclusive partnership with The Wall Street Journal, Jordan created a new brand - WSJ On Campus - which produces... find out more

Susan Gregg Koger

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Susan Gregg Koger is the Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of ModCloth, an online retailer selling independent designer fashion and decor with a highly engaged following of millions of female shoppers. Susan started ModCloth when she was just 17, taking her love of thrifting to start an online business. ModCloth was operated out of dorm rooms and basements for four years, and after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, Susan and husband/co-founder Eric Koger, made the decision to expand and sell vintage-inspired clothing... find out more

Benjamin Gulak

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Benjamin Gulak started BPG Inc. three years ago when his high-school science fair project Uno gained international media attention. With a "green" conscious, Ben designed the electric Uno vehicle to help combat the global pollution problem. The Uno has won "Top 10 Inventions of 2008" by Popular Science magazine and a Grand Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Currently pursuing a mechanical engineering degree at M.I.T., Ben continues to develop the Uno and his latest vehicle, the DTV Shredder. His personal goal is to... find out more

Ishita Gupta

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Ishita Gupta is founder and publisher of Fear.less Magazine, the popular online magazine that talks to entrepreneurs, CEO's, artists, writers, and creators about how they overcome fear. She created the magazine in Seth Godin's Six Month MBA, an alternative MBA focused on entrepreneurship, marketing, and new media. She publishes Fear.less and works with as Head of Hoopla for The Domino... find out more

Alex Handy

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Alex Handy has a passion for exploring how social and environmental problems can be solved through enterprise. He is the founder and President of Beyond Profit; an organization that inspires and supports students who want to make the world a better place through their career or through entrepreneurship. He is also the co-founder of the African Innovation Prize, a business plan competition for Rwandan students in Kigali. He has been awarded a social entrepreneurship catalyst award by Unltd and was named as one of the Future 100 by Striding... find out more

Windsor Hanger

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Windsor Genevieve Hanger is a co-founder, President & Publisher of Her Campus Media LLC (HerCampus.com), an online magazine for college women and marketing platform for companies looking to reach the college market. Her Campus launched in September 2009 after winning Harvard’s business plan competition. At Her Campus, Windsor leads all client acquisition, business development, strategic marketing partnerships and sales, and has been responsible for bringing on clients including Juicy Couture, New Balance, Lauren Merkin, and Rent the Runway.... find out more

Christine Hassler

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Christine Hassler has been known as the personal growth guru for 20 somethings since 2005. She is the author of the best-selling books Twenty-Something, Twenty-Everything and The Twenty-Something Manifesto (http://www.christinehassler.com/books.php). After leaving her successful job as a Hollywood agent at 25 and triumphing over her own quarterlife crisis, Christine was inspired to help others answer the questions: "Who Am I, What do I want, and How do I get it?" Christine is a life coach with a counseling emphasis specializing in... find out more

David Hauser

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David Hauser oversees the strategic direction and operations of Grasshopper Group and serves as the company’s technology visionary. A passionate technologist, he’s the guy you go to when you have a question about how the universe operates (or if you simply want to consult his encyclopedic inner search engine). As champion of the company’s Core Values and work culture, he strives to create an environment that is professionally and personally rewarding for all employees. A technology start-up veteran, David was co-founder of Return Path, an... find out more

Kent Healy

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As a young teenager, Kent Healy realized that his conventional schooling was not offering the important life-skills necessary to become successful in the real world. His relentless drive to discover the workings of success led him to form relationships with world leaders in the field of personal development, author several books, and speak around the globe. After working with the media from his teen years, Kent has become a go-to source for creative insights on entrepreneurship, leadership, life-skills... find out more

Darnell Henderson

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H.I.M-istry is the innovation of Darnell Henderson, a 32 year old wonder. Darnell grew up in a small town in Alabama and learned the importance of family and the ability to dream. After completing high school, he joined the U.S. Navy in hopes of discovering a world contrasting the one he knew. While serving our country, Darnell gained structure and discipline which proved central in teaching him to focus on his dreams and to strategically lay out a plan to attain them. After honorably serving our country, Mr. Henderson settled in San Diego and... find out more

Rachael Herrscher

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Rachael Herrscher is CEO and co-founder of TodaysMama, an online media and publishing company founded in 2004. In her role as CEO Rachael oversees general business operations, social media, new market development, partnerships, and marketing initiatives. She is a featured blogger onEntrepreneur.com, and is a regular speaker at new media, women in business and mom conferences. As well, Rachael is the co-founder of EVO, a social media conference for women (http://evoconference,com). Rachael was a finalist for the 2007 Stevie Awards “Best Young... find out more

Ryan Holmes

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HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes’ entrepreneurial endeavors include successes in a variety of industries from founding a pizza restaurant chain to building the top online paintball equipment supplier in Canada before launching the popular social media dashboard tool. His interest in tech emerged early after winning an Apple II in an elementary school programming contest. Ryan founded digital agency Invoke Media in 2000 to provide holistic marketing, development and design services. Invoke also developed products including early CMS and e-commerce web... find out more

Amanda Holt

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Amanda Holt believes that happy careers happen, even for twenty-somethings. So she's committed her twenty-somethings to finding the most passionate, innovative young professionals and capturing their stories as fuel for inspiration-hungry students and post-grads. Amanda is the founder and CEO of shatterbox, an inspiration and information platform for young people on a quest for their career calling. Launched in May 2010 as a part-time passion project, the site is a showcase for dozens of video vignettes, a dynamic social network where members... find out more

Lewis Howes

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Lewis Howes is a former 2 sport All-American and the current world record holder for the most receiving yards in a single football game. He is an angel investor in affiliate marketing and mobile app companies along with an inventor in fitness products. He the author of two books on LinkedIn. Along with his LinkedIn book, he has hosted over 300 webinars, and created educational training products such as Linked Influence (advanced LinkedIn training), 500 Million Strong (advanced social media training), Shy Networking (a networking course for... find out more

Heather Huhman

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Heather R. Huhman, founder & president of Come Recommended, has nearly a decade of public relations and marketing experience, specializing in media relations, content marketing, and social media. She is also a well-recognized career expert, an experienced hiring manager, and someone who has been in nearly every employment-related situation imaginable. Heather knows and understands the needs of today’s employers and internship and entry-level job seekers. Her expertise in this area led to her selection as a contributor to Business... find out more

Jordana Jaffe

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Jordana Jaffe is the founder of Embarkability, a company dedicated to helping young women in their 20's and 30's figure out their next steps and achieve clarity around their career, relationships, and goals. She launched her first company, live ORGANIZED, a professional organizing firm, at 24, which quickly became a successful business that was featured on NBC, in Women's Health, the New York Daily News, and People magazine. After having helped hundreds of clients organize their homes, offices, and lives, she wanted to empower other young women... find out more

Tim Jahn

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Tim Jahn is the co-founder of Naptime Entrepreneurs, an online educational community for parent entrepreneurs. He has conducted over 150 interviews on BeyondThePedway.com, a website he founded for creative entrepreneurs to learn from the successes, failures, and journeys of fellow creators. He is also the co-founder of Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, a unique event series in Chicago that brings together successful entrepreneurs to share their experiences and lessons in an intimate, "unpluggd" format. Tim is the author of "Use Interviews To Increase... find out more

Cameron Johnson

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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the age of nine and by age 12, he was making $50,000 per year. By age fifteen, his online advertising company was generating more than $15,000 per day in revenue. That same year, he became the youngest American to join the board of a Tokyo-based company and his autobiography was released in Japan, titled “15-Year-Old CEO”, which was an instant bestseller. At 25, Cameron has founded and sold more than a dozen successful businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide... find out more

Derek Johnson

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Derek Johnson is the founder and CEO of text message marketing company, Tatango.com. Tatango is a profitable Angel backed company that services businesses and organizations looking for user friendly, easy-to-use text message marketing services. Legend has it, Derek was born talking on his mobile phone. That pretty much sums up... find out more

Jeremy Johnson

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Jeremy Johnson is the co-founder and chief marketing officer at 2tor, Inc., an education-technology company that partners with preeminent institutions of higher education such as Georgetown, UNC Chapel Hill and USC to deliver transformative online degree programs. Prior to working at 2tor, Jeremy dropped out of Princeton University after receiving funding for a company which built an online social network around the college admissions process. The company was acquired by Zinch.com. In his year with Zinch, Jeremy helped the company grow five... find out more

Warren Jolly

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Warren Jolly has been a successful Entrepreneur since his High School years. Founding his first business (Nebulant Corp) at the age of 17, Warren quickly established himself as a well-recognized expert in the field of affiliate marketing, also known as online pay-for-performance marketing. The company was acquired by a AIM-listed company in 2003 and gave Warren the opportunity to first experience an M&A transaction. Today, at the age of 26, Warren has built his current company (Affiliate Media) into a fast-growing media empire which is focused on helping... find out more

Maia Josebachvili

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Maia Josebachvili grew up watching too many Indiana Jones movies and decided at a very early age that she was going to try everything in the world once. It started with a mechanical engineering degree, was followed by a two-year stint as a derivatives trader on Wall Street, which precipitated a 14-month train trip around the world that led to the creation of Urban Escapes. Maia started Urban Escapes as an answer to every young professional's desire to "get out of the bubble". The concept stuck and just one year after the... find out more

Shama Kabani

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Web TV Show Host. Bestselling author. International Speaker. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm. Shama is the face of today’s digital world, and represents the best her generation has to offer. She has aptly been dubbed the “master millennial of the universe” and “an online marketing shaman” by Fast Company.com. Shama holds a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, and prides herself in being a constant learner. Through her web marketing company, Shama... find out more

Stephanie Kaplan

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Stephanie Kaplan is a co-founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Her Campus Media LLC (HerCampus.com), an online magazine for college women and marketing platform for companies looking to reach the college market. Her Campus launched in September 2009 after winning Harvard’s business plan competition. Since then, Stephanie has grown Her Campus to a team of 1700+ college students with branches at 125+ colleges nationwide and formed content partnerships with Seventeen magazine, SELF magazine, and The Huffington Post. Her Campus has been featured... find out more

Dina Kaplan

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 Dina Kaplan is a co-founder of blip.tv. Dina oversees operations and business development for the company, including finance, media and distribution partnerships, public relations and marketing. Blip.tv is an online television network focused on featuring, promoting and monetizing the best original shows on the Web. Blip.tv shares advertising revenues evenly with content creators and syndicates shows throughout the Web, to iTunes, and to the TV set through partnerships with FiOS, TiVo, Sony Television, Boxee and roku. Blip.tv hosts 50,000... find out more

Maren Kate

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Maren Kate is a young entrepreneur who is focused on revolutionizing the way start ups & small businesses outsource. She blogs about starting a business that willll change your life at Escapingthe9to5.com and is passionate about helping others escape their cubicles to live life on their own... find out more

Dmitriy Katsel

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Dmitriy Katsel is the founder of AdU Network, an organization that helps companies such as The Walt Disney Company and JetBlue Airways discover great ideas through university classroom collaborations. AdU Network partners corporate clients with universities such as Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Los Angeles on research, innovation and design projects. Dmitriy created his company as a student and evolved it into a leading resource for corporations that are looking to collaborate with universities on... find out more

Haig Kayserian

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Haig Kayserian is an internet and mobile business consultant with clients across Australia, the United States of America and Asia. The company he founded - KAYWEB - has offices in Sydney,Melbourne, New York and Manila, providing premium websites and apps solutions to businesses, organizations, government and individuals. Haig specializes in web and mobile projects of entrepreneurs, helping people with great ideas and a strong drive to succeed turn their website projects and mobile app projects into successful and sustainable businesses. He has been the chief... find out more

Brad Kendall

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Brad Kendall is a serial technology entrepreneur from Winnipeg, Manitoba with an obsession for entrepreneurship. He is the co-founder of multiple companies including CCR Technology Group, Enlite Digital Advertising Solutions and Digihedron. In addition, Brad writes about his experience running a small IT firm on his blog bradkendall.ca. Brad loves creative ideas, helping people start and expand their businesses and is fueled by technology and community. Currently, Brad is busy helping other IT providers through his blog, developing cutting... find out more

Jay Khor

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Jay Khor is the founder of Versutia_ LLC, a real estate investment firm that currently focuses on residential property investment and redevelopment. Jay is passionate about providing unique, affordable, high quality products to end users in all facets of real estate. His core of expertise lays in property acquisition, construction management, product development, and marketing. Since Jay began his real estate career in August of 2008, he has successfully redeveloped and managed a portfolio in excess of $1 million and sold over $5 million of real... find out more

Travis Kiefer

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Travis Kiefer is the Executive Director of Gumball Capital, a social enterprise that has turned 3,000 students at 25 schools into social entrepreneurs for one week to raise over $29,000 for poverty alleviation. He is also a rising senior at Stanford University from the rolling plains of South Dakota and is majoring in Urban Studies with a minor in Computer Science. Travis is also the youngest American male to run a marathon on all seven... find out more

Pete Kistler

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Pete Kistler is the founder and CEO of Brand‐Yourself.com, an award-winning web app that’s been called “the easiest way to put your best foot forward online.” His company has been named one of the Top 50 Most Innovative College Startups in the U.S. three years in a row. Pete Kistler was named one of the Top 5 College Entrepreneurs of 2009 by Entrepreneur Magazine, won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 by the Small Business Association, and is cited as a leading Online Reputation Management expert, one of the Top 30 Definitive... find out more

Jake Kloberdanz

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Jake Kloberdanz is a Bay Area native who grew up Fremont and now resides in Manhattan Beach living close to many of his best college buddies from U.C. Berkeley. While in college Jake played Football and Rugby for the Cal Bears, and was an extremely active member in the alpha beta chapter of Sigma Chi. Jake took a job in wine sales with the leading company in the industry while also founding a technology company with 4 of his best friends from college named "The Scene" (www.thescene.com). Jake has an older and younger sister that he loves... find out more

Dan Koifman

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Dan Koifman looked in the mirror one day and decided one chin was enough. He was an obese public relations professional with who worked crazy hours for clients that included The Emmy Awards, venture-backed startups and prominent philanthropists. After hiring a personal trainer and making small changes in his life, he was able to lose 50lbs in just six months. This personal change snowballed into a professional and Dan decided to help other people reach their fitness goals by launching Workaholic Workouts, a personal training company that brings... find out more

Brett Kopf

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Hey! I'm Brett Kopf, the co-founder of remind101. I'm passionate about using SMS to transform education. I started Social Bonfire as a student at Michigan State and am a proud born & raised Chicagoan. I'm obsessed with travel (Japan & Israel), volunteering (Belize) & the outdoors. Please don't hesitate to reach out, I love talking startups! WARNING. I have a lot of energy... find out more

Kwame Kuadey

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Kwame Kuadey is an entrepreneur, startup advisor, and public speaker. Kwame started his first company, GiftCardRescue.com on a shoestring and bootstrapped it into a profitable, multi-million dollar business. He has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, and many more. Kwame was a contestant on the hit ABC show “Shark Tank,” where his business successfully landed an investment. He is an engaging public speaker and enjoys working with aspiring entrepreneurs on how to bootstrap a startup. In... find out more

Brett Kunsch

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Brett Kunsch is the founder and principal of MILLENNIALCoach.com, a personal coaching service dedicated to young professionals and entrepreneurs’ ability to thrive in the 21st century. Seeing a sharp disconnect between what is taught in school and what is expected in the real world, he promotes practical strategies that inspire others to take action to create sustainable success in their lives and careers. Brett pushes every millennial to fully self-realize with his rallying cry: “Write your life the way you want it to... find out more

Jennifer Kushell

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Jennifer Kushell is the founder and Chief Evangelist of YSN.com (“Your Success Network”), a leading destination for career exploration and development tips, tools and resources for young professionals and entrepreneurs looking to take their careers to the next level. As author of the New York Times Best Seller, Secrets of the Young & Successful and The Young Entrepreneur's Edge, Kushell started her entrepreneurial career at 13 and has been teaching in one form or another since 19. Today she is a celebrated speaker, strategic consultant... find out more

Kyle Lacy

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Kyle Lacy has quickly built a reputation for an excellent in-depth understanding of the application of social and digital media for both small businesses and large corporations. He has currently taught over 175 companies and businesses across the world Kyle is author of two books: Twitter Marketing for Dummies (Wiley, 2009) and Branding Yourself (Pearson, 2010). The second edition of Twitter Marketing for Dummies will also be released in 2011. Recognized both locally and globally for his knowledge of social media, he is routinely invited to share... find out more

Raj Lahoti

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Raj Lahoti is the CEO and Co-founder at Online GURU, a web publishing company most known for its website, DMV.org: The DMV Made Simple. Since 2003, Raj Lahoti has worked to develop DMV.org into a top 1000 website with over 50 million visitors and a top 10 automotive destination.Raj Lahoti and Online Guru have received numerous awards and recognition including being honored as an Inc. 5000 company in 2008. Raj Lahoti was also ranked among Inc's Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30 as well as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.Raj... find out more

Naveed Lalani

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Naveed Lalani is a co-founder at Piryx, the social giving platform used by non-profits, political campaigns and social entrepreneurs around the world. Piryx has received world-wide recognition for creating disruptive fundraising technology, and has been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, Portfolio Magazine, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Politics Magazine, SXSW, ABC News, San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, and more. Naveed oversees the platform and developer strategy at Piryx. Before jumping into the startup world, he... find out more

Adelaide Lancaster

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Adelaide Lancaster is co-founder of In Good Company, a collaborative workspace for women business owners in NYC. In addition, she consults to small business owners helping them to create and grow businesses that meet their needs and goals. Adelaide regularly teaches, speaks, and writes on topics relating to women and entrepreneurship. Adelaide earned a M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology and a M.A. in Organizational Psychology, both from Columbia University. She also earned her B.A. degree in Sociology and Anthropology, Educational Studies, from... find out more

Benjamin Lang

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Benjamin Lang is a 17-year-old entrepreneur and the founder of the popular blog for young entrepreneurs, EpicLaunch. Benjamin's entrepreneurial journey began at age 14 when he started his own eBay business, which immediately received media attention. He's been interviewed by a variety of online media outlets as a thought leader for teenage entrepreneurship. Currently, Benjamin is the founder of MySchoolHelp.com, an online platform that lets high-school students share notes with their... find out more

Jamail Larkins

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From the ripe age of 12 when Jamail Larkins stepped inside an airplane and co-piloted his first flight with the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagles Program, he was hooked for life. Falling in love at first flight, Jamail decided he would do whatever it took to continue flying, including petitioning the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to let him fly solo at the age of 13. He didn’t get the answer he was looking for, so he headed to Canada where the age requirement was only 14. It was there he became one of the youngest... find out more

Louis Lautman

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Louis Lautman knew from an early age that he would write, produce and guide a process up close by playing an on screen pivotal role in a film about young business people. He has been selling products and services all his life and loves the process of being a young entrepreneur. Originally from New Jersey and a graduate of Towson University in 1999, Lautman immediately moved to New York City after college and began his full time, professional selling career. A “born salesman,” Louis accelerated at his craft and quickly became a company... find out more

Matt Lauzon

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Matt Lauzon founded Gemvara as a student at Babson College. Gemvara was born when Matt uncovered a niche in the jewelry industry at the intersection of eCommerce and mass customization. His “meCommerce” vision provides everyone with a seamless online shopping experience to discover the perfect piece of jewelry. Taking notes from how Dell transformed PC customization, Zappos revolutionized online customer service and Netflix enabled the seamless discovery of movies, Matt is leading Gemvara to becoming the world’s fastest growing online... find out more

Shira Lazar

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Shira Lazar is an EMMY nominated TV and Web Personality who continues to bridge the gap between traditional and new media and be a voice for the digital age. She covers the latest in digital trends, tech and pop culture on her blog- On The Scene– on CBSNews.com and hostsBackstage Live, the live-stream during the CBS Early Show on Saturday. You can also catch her as host of the first social media reality competition show, The Tastemaker, on MSN.com. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Fox News Channel and CNN. An authority in... find out more

Benjamin Leis

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Benjamin Leis is the Owner and Founder of Sweat EquiTees, a clothing company for entrepreneurs. The mission of Sweat EquiTees: an expression of entrepreneurship nationwide, is to support and promote entrepreneurship by providing the clothing to display entrepreneurial pride and through evocative designs, inspire would-be entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams. Benjamin is a serial entrepreneur, having started the first of six organizations at the age of 18 years-old as a freshman at the University of Miami and selling his first for-profit... find out more

Logan Lenz

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Logan Lenz a serial entrepreneur that innovates within the music and web industries. His first ever startup company is called Endagon Enterprises, which is a full-service web agency that also builds its own internal web properties. Lenz also owns and operates a humor t-shirt website called Iced Tees and has helped to start a handful of other businesses. Lenz's long-term goal is to angel invest in startup companies and continue to make the web, and the world, a much better... find out more

Juha Liikala

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Juha Liikala is a Location Independent entrepreneur and a Blogger at NomadCouch.com. At Nomad Couch, he blogs about the challenges of nomadic entrepreneurship & the pro's and con's of the location independent lifestyle. He's also the co-founder and owner of webVehicle, a Finland based software development company specializing in creating web based solutions to car owners, dealers & workshops around the world. Walking the walk, he's building the company in a way that enables him to travel and manage the business from the road, no matter... find out more

Sheena Lindahl

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Sheena Lindahl is the co-founder and president of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, the first ever tour to bring top young entrepreneurs to college campuses to share their stories and lessons learned. The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour has visited over 150 colleges in 26 states! Before Extreme Entrepreneurship, Sheena was a senior associate at GreenHills Ventures, where she managed the due diligence process and gave recommendations on whether to invest $1.5-$5 million dollars in early stage, high-growth companies. Sheena and her company have... find out more

Drew Little

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Drew Little is a Web Social Entrepreneur/Economic Activist on a mission to help end youth poverty, promote diversity, and provide an outlet for the youth to pursue their passions via the World Wide Web. He developed an evolutionary economic theory called Producism, which is based on Collective Economic Empowerment via the web. His mission is to inspire, inform, and invest in under-served and under-represented youth in the areas of New Media and Internet Technology to help level economic self-sufficiency in the United States, and to diversify... find out more

Jun Loayza

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Jun Loayza is the Co-Founder of RewardMe, a mobile application that is the "frequent flyer miles" for brick-and-mortar stores. Prior to RewardMe, Jun was the President of SocialMediaMarketing.com where he lead social campaigns for Levi's, Activision, LG, and Musicians Institute. Jun has spoken at conferences such as Social Media Strategies, Y Pulse, Web 2.0, and Optimization Summit, and has written for Mashable and Personal Branding Blog. Jun graduated from UCLA with a bachelors degree in Economics and Philosophy. You can find him online... find out more

Jarryd Loyd

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Jarryd Loyd is the CEO and Senior Partner of Black Tie International Investment Group (BTIIG). Playing Division One basketball for Valparaiso University for four years, achieving both academic awards and basketball honors catapult Jarryd into professional Basketball in countries such as Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, and Romania all at the age of 24. Jarryd’s keen understanding that life is a journey and a development of transitions, manifested an “aha” moment while visiting the former Chicago Mercantile Exchange in late 2008.... find out more

Nathan Lustig

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Nathan Lustig, from Madison, WI, is the cofounder of Entrustet, a website that helps people access, transfer and delete online accounts when someone passes away. During college at the University of Wisconsin, Lustig started a tickets and textbooks trading website, which was acquired his senior year. He is also the founder of Capital Entrepreneurs, a Madison, WI based founders meet up group that has helped organize the Madison startup community. He is recongized as a leader in the Madison startup scene and is the cofounder of the Forward... find out more

Shane Mac

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Shane Mac does marketing for Seattle based Gist which was acquired by BlackBerry. Gist is a next-generation social contact management solution for business professionals. (http://gist.com) He’s the founder and CEO of Hello There (http://sayhellothere.com) a new way for job seekers to build customized video pages for every job application and instantly know when a company or person views a page and downloads their resume or cover letter. His new book, “Stop With The BS” (http://shanemac.me/stopwiththebs) will be coming out in 2011. He’s... find out more

Natalie MacNeil

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Natalie MacNeil is the co-founder of Imaginarius, an Emmy award winning firm that produces interactive and digital media. She is best known for her blog, She Takes on the World, which has received international accolades, including being featured by Forbes as one of the "Ten Best Career Sites for Women." It is also the 2010 Stevie Award winner for Blog of the Year. In 2010 Natalie received the Impact Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year in... find out more

Jessica Mah

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As the founder and software architect of inDinero, Jessica Mah drives the development of inDinero’s product strategy, software development, and design efforts. She designed inDinero for the typical small business owner, knowing that its usefulness and simplicity would change the way business owners look at money. Founders Jessica Mah and Andy Su built the core product over the Summer of 2009, and the company has since won funding from UC Berkeley’s Center of Entrepreneurship and early stage investment firm YCombinator. In her early... find out more

Brendan Mangus

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Brendan Mangus is Principal of Forge Communications, a multidisciplinary marketing and public relations consultancy with offices in Pittsburgh and New York. He is a high-level business writer and branding and PR strategist with wide ranging consumer and B2B experience. In his 10 years in the business Brendan has helped to develop and execute cross-platform marketing and communications plans that raise awareness and motivate prospect and customer behaviors, allowing clients to discover and convert new business opportunities, strengthen... find out more

Trevor Mauch

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Trevor Mauch is the Chief Entrepreneurial Officer (CEO :-) of Mach One Media an online media and publishing company and Co-Founder of Automize a software development venture focused on helping entrepreneurs Automate, Systemize, and Optimze their businesses and lifestyles and who’s clients include Zappos, multiple New York Times best selling authors, and Inc. 500 companies. Trevor is also the founder of Maverick Entrepreneurs, the outlet of his passion, which is focused on changing the way entrepreneurship is taught in colleges and high... find out more

Alexandra Mayzler

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Alexandra Mayzler is the founder and director of Thinking Caps Tutoring. She began her career in education while still a student herself and channeled her personal experiences into creating study methods that her students could relate to. Over the past several years, Alexandra has crafted an innovative Study Skills Program for middle and high schoolers and a series of prep courses for standardized tests. In addition to Thinking Caps Tutoring, she frequently writes and speaks on topics in education and consults with New York schools regarding... find out more

Caitlin McCabe

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Caitlin McCabe is the CEO and Founder of Real Bullets Branding, an agency that specializes in brand advocate strategy. As someone who has been integrally involved in social media marketing since its outset, Caitlin works with brands, products and business groups across the country to help them build successful (and manageable) online marketing strategies. Caitlin started her career in newspaper at the University of Iowa and from there moved out to Colorado to try her hand at radio. She wrote the news and DJ’d the morning show. Little did... find out more

Cody McKibben

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Cody McKibben is an advocate for living radically different than the norm. He encourages people to find their passions, take more control of their lives through personal development and entrepreneurship, live adventurously, see and the experience the world, and give back. An entrepreneur, writer, and experienced marketer, Cody has helped several ridiculously cool people & organizations build their online footprint, and he continually works to connect creative people, orchestrate collaborative web projects and develop innovative new... find out more

Jonathan Mead

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Since a young age Jonathan Mead has had a hard time doing things he's not passionate about. He left the corporate scene at age 23 to become self-employed doing what makes him come alive: helping others create work they love while getting paid to be who they are. He's an in demand coach, writer and producer of several digital guides and courses on following your dreams and getting paid to exist. He's also a Jeet Kune Do practitioner, barefoot runner, madly in love husband and adventure seeker. Jonathan believes that instead of seeking "work and... find out more

Jesse Mecham

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In 2003, Jesse Mecham was married, broke, and facing three years of schooling (with a first child on the way). Out of dire necessity, Jesse developed a system of money management that helped him and his wife not only survive, but thrive during the financial trials that came along. Experiencing these successes firsthand, Jesse founded YouNeedABudget.com in 2004. He teaches individuals and small business owners Four Rules to help them stay out of debt, save more money, and stop living paycheck to... find out more

John Meyer

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John T. Meyer is teaching your mom and every small business owner on main street how to use social technology. John co-founded 9 Clouds, a social marketing and education firm located in South Dakota, with his brother Scott in 2009. John started his first business in his college dorm room at the age of 22 and now is on business number four with Sandbox, a community education tool to understand social technology. In 2010, John was named to Businessweek’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25 and has also been featured on AOL Sports, NHL.com, and speaks... find out more

Matt Mickiewicz

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Matt Mickiewicz started his first company while still in High School, and has leveraged his early success into 3 profitable businesses which have have published 50+ web design books in 20 languages, paid designers over $15 million for their graphic design work through 99designs, and helped entrepreneurs sell over $45 million in websites and domain names on Flippa. He won a 2010 Webby Award, has a Top 1000 Alexa ranked website, was named to the "30 under 30" list by BusinessInsider, and one of his businesses was named in Entrepreneur Magazine's... find out more

Dan Miller

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Dan Miller is the Founder and CEO of Transit Treasure (www.transittreasure.com), a first-of-its-kind loyalty rewards program for users of public transportation. Members earn “Transit Miles” for using public transit and making purchases with Transit Treasure’s merchant partners which are redeemable for cash. Dan is also the Founder of Entourage Capital, a private investment vehicle that incubates B2C web-start ups and acquires distressed residential real estate. Dan is a 2005 graduate of Georgetown... find out more

Arel Moodie

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Arel Moodie (26) is the bestselling author of Your Starting Point For Student Success. He and his businesses have been featured in USA Today, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine as well as countless other publications. Growing up on welfare in the projects of Brooklyn, NY he was able to overcome his situation and start his first successful Internet Company while in college. Now, as a professional speaker and Co-Owner of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, Arel has spoken to over 75,000 students in 42 states on the topics of... find out more

Michael Mothner

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Michael Mothner is the founder and CEO of Wpromote, one of the world's leading online marketing firms with 75+ employees and 2,000+ clients including HP, Wine.com, Bayer, Allied Moving and Symantec. Wpromote is a four-time Inc 500 company, a two-time winner of the LA Business Journal’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies, a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, and the #1 ranked SEM firm globally by TopSEOs.com. While running Wpromote, in 2007 Michael founded ScanDigital, the leading provider of digitization services for consumers' photos, slides, negatives, and... find out more

Marc Nager

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Marc Nager (pronounced Naw-ger) is the CEO and Co-Director of Startup Weekend. Both a Swiss and US citizen, Marc has enjoyed an amazing 26 years enjoying the outdoors, pursuing seemingly risky endeavors, and traveling down multiple career paths. With a degree in International Business from Chapman University in Southern California, Marc left his MBA program after the first semester to pursue new direction. Scratching his own itch to learn how to launch a startup, Marc found the opportunity to acquire Startup Weekend, LLC and to transform it into... find out more

Nick Nanton

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Nick Nanton, Esq. is known as The Celebrity Lawyer and Agent to the top Celebrity Experts for his role in developing and marketing business and professional experts, through personal branding, to help them gain credibility and recognition for their accomplishments. Nick is recognized as the nation’s leading expert on personal branding as Fast Company Magazine’s Expert Blogger on the subject and lectures regularly on the topic at the University of Central Florida. His book Celebrity Branding You® has been selected as the textbook on personal... find out more

Jake Nickell

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Jake Nickell is Threadless's young and fearless entrepreneurial leader. Jake has a passion for learning new things, from how to get t-shirts made to figuring out how to design and program an e-commerce website. Currently, he's focused on running the worldwide, hugely successful business that Threadless has become. He likes to think creatively and unconventionally about how to keep Threadless one step ahead by encouraging nutty employee ideas and staying away from the "business" side of running a business. Jake also continues to keep up... find out more

Erica Nicole

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Erica Nicole is a serial entrepreneur, small biz expert, syndicated columnist, national speaker, philanthropist and Christian thought leader. As an accomplished entrepreneur she presides over a diverse portfolio which includes YFS Magazine, Socialista Media, Platinum Power Group and Erica Nicole International. She is best known by the entrepreneurial community as the Founder and Editor in Chief of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning YFS Magazine: Young, Fabulous & Self- Employed. Erica is a Business Insider columnist, VISA... find out more

Fredrick Nijm

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Co-founder and CEO of Addoway.com a marketplace where shoppers buy from their friends and the merchants they trust. Fredrick Nijm has held management positions inside growing companies, including an integral role as a Market Manager for a Fortune 500 company before leaving to focus on Addoway. His leadership, vision, and motivation have continued to drive the growth of Addoway and its overall operations. He is currently working on his first book entitled: Eating to Success: You have what it takes. Fredrick has a B.S. in Biology... find out more

Andrew Norcross

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I am Andrew Norcross, a WordPress developer and designer based in Tampa, Florida. I own and operate Reaktiv Studios, a website development company specializing in WordPress and related open source platforms. A fiduciary asset manager in a former life, I left the window office and comfortable salary to begin doing what I've always loved: tinkering with things. Breaking them to see how they work, then rebuilding them better. It's what I do. In my "spare" time (which I seemingly have less and less of) I drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and spend as... find out more

Vanessa Nornberg

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Vanessa Nornberg got her start in accessories at the tender age of 11, by amassing the most notorious collection of chandelier earrings in the whole 5th grade. At age 18, her love of fashion drew her to New York City, where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from New York University in Romance Languages and European Studies. While living abroad in France, Vanessa worked in communications and business development. She returned to the United States and to her roots in the jewelry world, and in 2004, opened Metal Mafia, a... find out more

Justin Nowak

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A true deal maker at heart, Justin Nowak spends most of his time hunting for opportunities and businesses to start. Online business is the latest path he’s chosen to tread. He has taken his entrepreneurial spirit to found younggogetter.com and has become a partner in Chosen Development, where they develop high end websites and are experts at online commerce development. Recently he has take his passion for technology and business and consults for large clients on how to save money on their technology purchases focusing mostly on the telecom... find out more

Tim O'Shaughnessy

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Tim O'Shaughnessy sets and communicates LivingSocial's core strategy, and oversees our growth as the next great consumer brand. Before LivingSocial, Tim led the consumer products team at Revolution Health and managed product launches at AOL. Tim graduated from Georgetown University with degrees in Marketing and Operations & Information... find out more

Jared O'Toole

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Jared O’Toole graduated Ithaca College with a finance degree and like so many other business majors he quickly realized corporate life was not a path for him. Instead he got passionate about entrepreneurship, branding and how companies could leverage new media tools online. This change in heart led him to co-found Under30CEO.com, a website dedicated to inspiring young entrepreneurs and providing them with the resources needed to succeed on their journey. O’Toole has led Under30CEO to features on MSNBC, BusinessWeek, and Business Insider to... find out more

Sean Ogle

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Sean Ogle is an expert at helping people turn their passions and skill-sets into sustainable businesses that can be run from anywhere on Earth. As the founder of Location 180, LLC he uses the power of his blog to get the message out on the benefits of location independent entrepreneurship. Along with his consulting business, he's helped numerous people leave their job and travel the world through the Tropical MBA internship program, is a founding member of "I Want to Travel" a startup website and TV show aimed to help people see places they... find out more

Alexis Ohanian

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Graduated from UVA in 2005 and put my history major to work co-founding reddit.com. Sold it to Condé Nast in 2006 and continued doodle the reddit alien for another three years until retiring for a Kiva Fellowship in Armenia. Founded Breadpig, Inc., an uncorporation that's responsible for bringing geeky things into the world like LOLmagnetz and xkcd: volume 0 -- and donating all the profits (over $175,000 given away so far!). I'm also currently Principal, Marketing at Hipmunk. Thanks to a whale, I gave a TED talk in 2009. [Joy!] My dad... find out more

Sydney Owen

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Sydney Owen is the founder/CEO/President/Main Peanut in the Packet at 3Ring Media, a digital and emerging media consultancy. She also serves as the Director of Digital and Social Media at Chicagoland Skydiving Center, allowing her to combine her passion for all things social with all things skydiving. When she's not busy saving the world one social strategy at a time, she's jumping out of planes. 3Ring Media came to be when Sydney was presented with the opportunity at CSC. In the skydiving industry, most people are independent contractors. She... find out more

Trevor Owens

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Trevor Owens is the cofounder of Inside Startups, a weekly email newsletter of the best startup jobs in NYC. He's also cofounder of the Lean Startup Machine, a weekend conference that teaches entrepreneurs how to apply customer development methodology to their startup ideas. While an undergraduate at NYU he started Tech@NYU, now the largest technology-oriented student group at NYU which connects entrepreneurial minded students from all of NYU's programs from artists to... find out more

Dale Partridge

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Dale Partridge is a die hard serial entrepreneur and published author. After founding multiple companies and producing 7 digit revenues by age 25, Dale now leads an organization for faith based world changers. He is the founder and CEO of IdentityCulture.org a lesson platform for entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders, and missionaries. He also hosts the annual Identity Conference™, where thousands of next gen leaders join to discuss the future of world change. He is the author of "Make it Happen, 30 Steps for the Next Generation of Young... find out more

Neil Patel

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Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career he has helped companies such as Amazon, eBay, Expedia, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Walmart make more money from the web. By the age of 21 Neil was named one of the top influencers on the web by the Wall Street Journal as well as quoted in magazines such as Entrepreneur and Inc for his insights on Internet... find out more

Aaron Patzer

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Aaron Patzer is the VP and General Manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group, managing the Mint from Quicken and Quicken Desktop brands. He is also both the visionary and technical mind behind Mint.com, acquired by Intuit in fall 2009. Aaron designed Mint to meet the needs of people who value the immediacy of the web, simplicity and their free time. Prior to founding Mint, Aaron was an architect and technical lead for the San Jose division of Nascentric. Before Nascentric, Aaron worked for IBM and founded two web development and online... find out more

Ryan Paugh

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Ryan Paugh is a community-building expert and the co-founder of Brazen Careerist – the #1 social network for Generation Y (Mashable). He has been featured as a Gen-Y thought leader in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Associated Press. He was also featured on 60 Minutes talking about his company's controversial transparent salary policy. Beyond Brazen Careerist, Ryan is a consultant and keynote speaker who specializes in community-building tactics and generational issues at work. He's passionate about cooking/eating... find out more

Lauren Pierce Bush

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Lauren Bush is the CEO and Co-Founder of FEED Projects, a charitable company with the mission of creating good products that help feed the world. Each FEED bag sold provides hungry children with school meals through the United Nations World Food Program. Lauren has been an Honorary Spokesperson for the WFP since 2004, and helped launch their Universities Fighting Hunger initiative, which educates and engages university age students in the fight against world hunger. Over the past four years Lauren has traveled to Guatemala, Cambodia, Lesotho,... find out more

Jerry Piscitelli

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Jerry Piscitelli is the co-founder of PORTOPOPNG LLC, the world’s first inflatable beer pong table company. A fun product by nature but like any business owner determined to succeed it has tested Jerry’s background in public relations, web design, graphic arts, and social media marketing while expanding his depth of knowledge in retail and consumer behavior. He has used is entrepreneurial spirit to network with many brands in this non-mainstream industry to rapidly become a name brand. Featured once in Entrepreneur Magazine as a product to... find out more

Lindsey Pollak

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Lindsey Pollak is a bestselling author, corporate consultant and internationally recognized expert on next generation career and workplace trends. She is a Global Spokesperson for LinkedIn, the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World and recently collaborated with Levi’s on their "Shape What's to Come" initiative for Millennial women. Lindsey has delivered keynote speeches, training seminars, webinars and consulting for over 100 corporations, universities and conferences across the U.S., Canada... find out more

Jeffrey Powers

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Jeffrey Powers is co-founder of Occipital, a TechStars-backed and revenue-funded company based in Boulder. Occipital builds wide-appeal consumer applications that use computer vision technology at their core. In 2009, Occipital launched RedLaser, a mobile barcode-scanning application which became extremely popular. In June 2010, Jeff and co-founder Vikas Reddy negotiated the sale of RedLaser to eBay while keeping Occipital independent. Shortly after, Occipital launched 360 Panorama, now the top-ranked panorama application on the App... find out more

Sarah Prevette

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Sarah Prevette has captured attention as a passionate and pioneering web entrepreneur — an exciting voice from inside the online community revolution. Sarah’s untraditional and multi-faceted approach to branding and promotion provides actionable insight to those looking to build communities, truly engage their audiences and leverage the full power of the web. Currently, Sarah is the founder of Sprouter, an online collaboration tool facilitating knowledge exchange between startups and business leaders. An entrepreneur long immersed in the... find out more

Kalimah Priforce

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Kalimah Priforce is a madman with an idea whose time has come - Qykno, Careerspotting 4 Kids - using video storytelling & social gaming to make Career Day, Every Day for 12-21 year olds. He is passionate about innovation that transforms children's lives in and outside the classroom. At 8 years old, he held a successful hunger strike against his Bedford-Stuyvesant group home to add more books to its library. At 14, a chance meeting with Dr. Lorraine Monroe, an education innovator in Harlem NY, sowed the seeds of his dream to be a... find out more

Srinivas Rao

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Srinivas Rao is the host and co-founder of BlogcastFM and the author of the Personal Development Blog, The Skool of Life. He graduated in 2009 from the MBA program at Pepperdine University and has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of... find out more

Deepak Ravindran

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Deepak Ravindran is the co-founder & CEO of Innoz, a leading mobile company based in India which was named a Red Herring Global 100 and Nasscom Top 8 Emerging Product companies for 2010. Innoz was incepted as Swades Solutions, an offshore Web design firm in 2005 while Deepak was still at high-school. He participated in the finals of DFJ-CISCO Global Business Plan Competition 2009 alongside Stanford and Georgia Tech teams. He was named one of the MIT Technology Review outstanding innovators under 35, for his innovation SMSGYAN - a mobile meta... find out more

Johnica Reed

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The consummate travel tastemaker and Gen Y entrepreneur, Johnica Reed is the go-to girl for curated global experiences. Leveraging her jet-setter knowledge, design aesthetic, and business savvy, she has turned a personal venture into a lifestyle brand. An admitted tech junkie and early adopter, she also works with hospitality and luxury brands on digital marketing and the ins and outs of using social media to engage consumers. From South Africa to Haiti, to China and back, she racks up over 200,000 frequent flyer miles each year... find out more

Nick Reese

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Nick Reese is an Author, a digital nomad, and co-founder of Microbrand Media. Microbrand Media is an online marketing firm specializing in affiliate marketing, online strategy, traditional PR, and web publishing. Nick is passionate about connecting young people doing amazing things through life changing events and interactions. Nick’s online career has run the gamut ranging from email marketing to strategy and he has coached numerous Authors, Startups, and business people on everything from branding to affiliate marketing. When he isn’t... find out more

Lindsay Reinsmith

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Lindsay Reinsmith is the founder, CEO, and creator of Kaeng Raeng, an all natural, vegan meal replacement supplement sold online and in Whole Foods Market. After keeping a not-so-healthy lifestyle as a Stanford student and then an investment banker, Lindsay became obsessed with raw veganism and began creating a “detox” formula in her kitchen to kick those unhealthy habits. At 23, she posted on Facebook about her weight loss and health success, and when others asked to try to this unique formula, Kaeng Raeng was born. Today, KR is made in a... find out more

Nina Rodecker

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Combine pure determination and class and you get Nina Rodecker—entrepreneur, business woman, leader, innovator and mom. She may be the owner of a successful, growing business today, but two years ago, she was a mom-to-be falling victim to a pregnancy craving for freshly spun cotton candy. Unable to get her hands on some, determination kicked in and she set out to change that for herself and the entire Los Angeles area. In 2008, Rodecker launched Tasty Clouds Cotton Candy Company to fill the unmet need that existed for traditional cotton... find out more

Greg Rollett

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Greg Rollett is the founder and CEO of Radically Ambitious, an Internet Marketing and Lifestyle Creation Business that works with young entrepreneurs in emerging industries. The results include Gen-Y Rock Stars and the New Music Economy, where Greg and his team help musicians create an entrepreneurial business around their musical talents, along with consulting artists that have been on the rosters of Cash Money Records, Warner Brothers and more. Another business, Ambitious Profits, helps those looking to use the Internet to help people, provide... find out more

Kris Ruby

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Kris Ruby is the President & Founder of Ruby Media Group, a Public Relations, Personal Branding and Social Media Agency. Kris also leads national speaking engagements on branding for Microsoft and the ABA has been featured on MSN Money, AOL Small Business, FORBES, CBS, ABC Good Morning CT, NBC and News 12. Kris is a columnist for Forbes Woman, Inside Chappaqua Magazine, JDATE and Single & Smart Magazine, and was the youngest ever to be chosen for the Business Council of Westchesters "40 Under 40" Rising... find out more

David Rusenko

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 David Rusenko is the CEO and one of the founders of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco, California. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anybody to create a website, blog, or online store. By visiting Weebly.com, small businesses, teachers, professionals and individuals can easily design and publish a web site within minutes. Weebly was named on of Time's 50 best websites of 2007, and has been featured in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Inc and Entrepreneur magazines, as well as on NBC and the BBC. Over 5... find out more

Adam Sachs

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Adam Sachs is co-founder of Ignighter.com, a group dating website based in NYC and India. Ignighter's mission is to provide a safer, less awkward, more fun approach to online dating. Adam and his co-founder Dan Osit, launched the site in early 2008 in an attempt to create something they very much wish existed in their own lives. The team went on to participate in TechStars Boulder in 2008 and has since become one of the fastest growing websites in Asia. Ignighter has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Inc.com, and... find out more

Jason Sadler

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Jason Sadler hasn't always been wearing t-shirts for a living, but has always been creative. From drawing on walls with crayons to eventually graduating college with a degree in Graphic Design. Jason has worked with professional sports organizations, advertising agencies, online retailers and most recently co-owned his own web design company. Jason lives in Florida, enjoys the challenge of putting on a t-shirt every morning for companies like Pizza Hut, Nissan, Bill Cosby, had Fox Business call him the "Entrepreneur of the Century", does private... find out more

Anthony Saladino

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Anthony Saladino is the co-founder and CEO of Kitchen Cabinet Kings, one of the nation's largest distributors of kitchen and bathroom cabinetry on the Internet. He is the visionary behind the custom online-shopping system, which has revolutionized the industry. KitchenCabinetKings.com not only provides high-quality products, but it is an excellent resource for information related to the kitchen and bath industry and boasts one of the most active home-improvement blogs. Anthony is a member of the National Kitchen and Bath Association, Better... find out more

Marcos Salazar

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Marcos Salazar is a psychologist, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is currently a leadership researcher and technology integrator for Girl Scouts of the USA, owner of a New York City clothing business (www.BoroThreads.com), co-founder of the social change startup Be Social Change, curator of BeSocialChange Digest NYC, author of two psychology books, and a speaker on the psychology of life after college, Gen Y, and Millennial topics. Marcos is also certified leadership coach, elected official in the state of New York, and technology lead for... find out more

Elizabeth Saunders

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Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the founder and CEO of Real Life E®, a time coaching and training company that empowers individuals who are overwhelmed and frustrated to feel peaceful, confident and accomplished through an exclusive Schedule MakeoverTM process. Real Life E® also increases employee productivity, satisfaction and work/life balance through custom training programs. Elizabeth has appeared in Inc magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and on NBC. She was... find out more

Dan Schawbel

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Dan Schawbel, recognized as a “personal branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the leading authority on personal branding. He is the #1 international bestselling author of Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan, October 2010), the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, and publisher of Personal Branding Magazine. Dan is the youngest BusinessWeek columnist, and was recently named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list. He has written articles for The Wall Street Journal,... find out more

David Schnurman

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David Schnurman is the CEO of Lawline.com, the leading provider of online Continuing Legal Education in the country and founder of TrueNYC.com, an online website for entrepreneurs. In addition, he is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship, marketing, networking and building a brand. Becoming an entrepreneur and running a business has always been a subject of intense interest to David. While in law school, he started TrueNYC to help others learn how to become a successful entrepreneur. After law school he built Lawline.com to become the... find out more

Anderson Schoenrock

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Anderson Schoenrock brings a diverse background in business, management and finance to ScanDigital. His unique combination of business experience leaves him well positioned to oversee the growth and innovation at ScanDigital. Prior to co-founding ScanDigital. Anderson was Vice President and Co-Founder of Zietsman Realty Partners (“ZRP”). Anderson directly oversaw more than $600 million in commercial real estate transactions and after building a successful platform, ZRP was acquired by Jones Lang La Salle in early 2007. Prior to forming... find out more

Sarah Schupp

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Sarah Schupp is the CEO and founder of University Parent Media (UPM). UPM is the #1 college resource guide for millions of parents at over 200 institutions around the nation and is expanding rapidly. The company helps thousands of local and national advertisers effectively reach college parents in print and online. UPM was recognized as a finalist for the Colorado Companies to Watch Award and twice named a Boulder County Business Report IQ Award Finalist. Schupp has been named one of BusinessWeek's top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25, one of 10... find out more

Arielle Patrice Scott

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Arielle Patrice Scott starts companies with a young adult focus, she started internshipIN.com and is the current CEO of GenJuice. She likes to refer to herself as part badass and part entrepreneur! Well, first – I am a little goofy and have a ton of fun when I work on projects. I get the face you see above when you ask me to do something innovative. But the big thing is I am a youth digital strategist. But what does that mean? I study youth culture and youth trends online, and I help companies understand how to join their... find out more

Michael Seibel

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Michael Seibel is the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv. His responsibilities include overseeing all operations for the company as well as investor relations, business development and monetization strategy. During Michael’s tenure as CEO, Justin.tv has grown to be the largest live video site on the Web with over 30 million unique visitors each month. Justin.tv's newest efforts have been in the mobile space with the launch of Socialcam: the easiest way to share videos with friends. It makes sharing video from your phone as simple as uploading... find out more

Ramit Sethi

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Ramit Sethi, the New York Times best-selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, shows regular people how to live a rich life by spending extravagantly on the things they love -- and cutting costs mercilessly on the things they don't. With a background in social psychology, Ramit reveals the underlying behaviors behind personal finance, and shows how money is connected to every major goal from dating to weight loss -- and specific, tactical steps to live a rich life. His book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, became an instant New York Times,... find out more

Rishi Shah

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Rishi Shah loves 3 things: Web Marketing, Comics, and Businesses Making Money Online. In 2006 he launched FlyingCart.com an easy way to create an online store. Allowing small businesses the tools to easily get their business rolling online. Over 10,000 stores currently use Flying Cart to grow their online business. In 2007 Rishi Shah was named Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25. In 2008 he was recognized by Wisconsin's Governor Jim Doyle for his excellence and commitment to Wisconsin commerce. Rishi is an active blogger on GettingMoreAwesome.com... find out more

Derek Shanahan

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Derek Shanahan is the founder and Chief Community Officer of Foodtree, the first crowd-sourced global map of local food on the web. He also runs 20 Something Bloggers (20SB), the largest and best community for personal bloggers online. A few years back he gave up a financial planning practice to focus on Foodtree full time after having secured a round of seed funding and built a prototype product. Since then he's built a killer "get shit done" team around Foodtree to quickly become the most comprehensive database of real food information... find out more

Jacob Share

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The founder of Paris, France-based Share Select Media, Jacob Share is best known as the job search expert who created the award-winning JobMob at http://jobmob.co.il/, one of the top job search blogs in the world. From Jacob: “My career includes past jobs in Canada, France, the United States and Israel. As someone who has undertaken job searches many times both as a candidate and as a hiring manager, the idea for JobMob came about when I realized that I was having more job search success than other job seekers and a blog seemed the best... find out more

Josh Shipp

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Josh Shipp's mission is to inspire teens and those who care about teens. He's the host of TV Show JUMP SHIPP, author of "The Teen's Guide to World Domination", named to Inc. Magazine's 30 under 30 list, and the founder of Youth Speaker University. Abandoned and abused as a child, Josh was able to triumph over the tragedy, and he continues to encourage everyone to overcome struggles and live life to the fullest. "Josh Shipp has the ability to get through to ANY teen and point them in the right direction. It's an incredible thing to ... find out more

Michael Simmons

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Michael Simmons (29) is an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author of The Student Success Manifesto, and an international keynote speaker who has spoken to over 50,000 individuals in 5 countries. He and his company have been featured in five books and on the AOL Home Page, USA Today, Inc. Magazine, ABC, NBC, and CBS. In 2006, Michael was named by Business Week as one of the Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25. Michael’s company, which he co-founded, Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, has worked with hundreds of colleges & universities to... find out more

Michael Sinensky

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 An entrepreneur at heart, Michael Sinensky became a business man at the age of eight with a school supply sales ring at his elementary school and then graduated to a candy ring with several students as his employees. Fast forward a couple of years and Sinensky had developed a reputation for event planning during his time in college which led him to a golden opportunity with NYC’s iconic Webster Hall owner and future partner, Sean McGarr. Webster Hall was one of the many businesses affected by the tragedy of 9/11 and their numbers had... find out more

Natalie Sisson

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An intrepid entrepreneur and world traveler, Natalie Sisson finds creative ways to run your business from anywhere. As a previous cofounder of a tech startup she focuses on using online tools, social media and outsourcing to create freedom in business and adventure in life. She specialises in business design coaching and social media personal training and is passionate about getting more women into business. Natalie is one of Nike Make Yourself Movement's Top 20 Outstanding Female Bloggers, a Visa Business Network mentor, a contributor to... find out more

Jeff Slobotski

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Jeff Slobotski is the Founder and Chief Community Builder at Silicon Prairie News, an Omaha-based company dedicated to highlighting and supporting entrepreneurs and creatives within the Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City regions. In addition to blogging about members of the region's creative class, Slobotski and his team at SPN help to organize events to connect these individuals such as StartupWeekend, BarCamp and the annual Big Omaha conference, which brings together over 500 entrepreneurs from across the United States. Additionally, Slobotski... find out more

Nicole Smartt

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Nicole Smartt is the Vice President and Co-owner of Star Staffing. Nicole has been active in the HR industry for over 7 years. She started her career "working a desk" and learning what it takes to make the ideal match between employee and employer. Nicole's drive, expertise, and professionalism are recognized by industry leaders and business partners. She is driven to provide long-term solutions for clients in regards to cost-savings and productivity improvement! But her work doesn’t stop there. Nicole is a co-founder for the Young... find out more

Jason Smikle

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Jason Smikle is a business leader and a creative entrepreneur at heart. While he was a teenager, he started In-Sites Websites, an interactive web design business that served small businesses and non-profits in Chicago. Through the Emma Bowen Foundation, he worked over four summers at CBS2Chicago for the production, marketing, web and executive offices. Aspiring to be a media producer, he decided to attend Temple University's Annenberg School of Communications, majoring in Broadcast Television & Mass Media. Seeking to understand the... find out more

Dom Smith

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Dom Smith is a multi-skilled journalist and editor. At 24, in 2011 he’s founder of York, UK-based music magazine Soundsphere and co-founder of Disabled Entrepreneurs, a network for start-up business people with disabilities. Soundsphere magazine is his main passion point and something that he is constantly driven to improve. It started off as a website about the alternative music scene (covering metal, electronic and indie music specifically) in the north of England in 2008, then he was awarded £1,000 funding from York St John University to... find out more

Craig Smith

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Craig Smith is the founder and managing director for Trinity. He oversees all active projects within the firm and his experience in eCommerce dates back to when online commerce first gained mainstream adoption. Craig has developed eCommerce deliverables for some of America\'s most recognized brands. Craig has a MBA in eBusiness from Temple University and a BA in marketing from The Pennsylvania State University. He has been quoted discussing eCommerce in numerous publications including Internet... find out more

Benjamin Smithee

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Ben Smithee is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Spych Market Analytics, LLC. He has a strong passion for innovation and creativity, and upon recognizing the evolving world of marketing research and communications, created Spych (“Spike”) to provide solutions for clients looking to engage difficult-to-reach audiences.   Spych’s innovative and energetic team is helping to continuously evolve the world of market research and communications through their unique methods and techniques, and their ability to always have a finger on... find out more

Robert Sofia

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Robert Sofia is a nationally recognized author, award winning public speaker, and financial industry thought leader. He has developed marketing strategies for Fortune 500® companies, personally coaches hundreds of financial advisors nationwide, and is the C.O.O and cofounder of Platinum Advisor Marketing Strategies. Robert holds his General Securities and Investment Advisor registrations from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and has helped build two multimillion dollar producing financial firms – one as the vice president... find out more

Omar Soliman

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Omar Soliman is a published author, entrepreneur and TV personality. During his senior year at The University of Miami he submited a business plan for COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK to the Leigh Rothschild Entrepreneurship competition. Omar won 1st place and $10,000 in the competition for his business concept which included junk removal, moving services and an online junk exhange. Today, COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK is a national franchise and is listed in the INC 500 for fastest growing companies in the nation. Omar was named 'Top 30... find out more

Cari Sommer

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As Co-Founder of Urban Interns, Cari Sommer focuses primarily on business strategy, marketing and business development. She also manages the company’s public relations. In short, Cari spends her time trying to convince anyone and everyone that Urban Interns is a need-to-know resource for growing companies and job seekers. Cari first perfected this Art of Advocacy during the seven years she practiced law. She began her legal career at the international law firms of Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft, and later Bryan Cave where she focused primarily... find out more

Lucas Sommer

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Lucas Sommer started three successful music business companies which he continues to own and operate profitably. His newest venture is Audimated.com, a game-changing site that is revolutionizing the independent music scene. Currently, Lucas is a full time entrepreneur and won a $25,000 Pitch It contest from WeMedia to apply towards Audimated. His educational background includes specialties in finance and music media and... find out more

David Spinks

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I'm a 20 something entrepreneur in NYC. I CoFounded BlogDash, Scribnia, u30pro and thecommunitymanager. I'm fascinated by the way technology can change the way people interact and the spread of information spreads. I love building tools and communities that help people, and can't say no to a good side... find out more

Ryan Stephens

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Ryan Stephens is an entrepreneurial minded 20-something who is passionate about the power of web 2.0 and its ability to cultivate conversations, build relationships and spread ideas. He started Ryan Stephens Marketing as a strategic consulting and professional development entity that specializes in relationship marketing for the small business owner. The emphasis centers around leveraging social technology to helping small business owners establish better relationships with co-workers, fellow business people, and most importantly... find out more

Kimberly Stone

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Kimberly E. Stone, founder of POSHGLAM.com, is an entrepreneur with a knack for recognizing creative talent and pinpointing successful lines. POSHGLAM started out as a side venture while Stone attended school. During the growth stages of POSHGLAM, Stone worked as a weekend entrepreneur while working as a Relationship Manager for an IT Staffing Augmentation Firm. Stone pushed forward with the development of POSHGLAM and it began to take reign in the online fashion industry. POSHGLAM became Stone’s primary career, and a full-time business endeavor. From an early... find out more

Ken Sundheim

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For his work in both executive search and entrepreneurship, Ken Sundheim's writing has been syndicated by sites such as WSJ.com, Yahoo, Business Insider, About.com and more. He has been interviewed by business writers including Monster.com's Charles Purdy, Amy Levin-Epstein of CBS MoneyWatch, and Anne Fisher of Crain's New York Business. Ken has also been invited to give entrepreneurship and career lectures at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Business and Pace University, among others. Ken's scholastic involvements also include... find out more

Lane Sutton

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Lane Sutton is a 14 year old young entrepreneur who has combined his knowledge of technology with his interest in business. He currently works as a Social Media Strategist helping other companies use social media effectively for business. He enjoys speaking to companies, organizations, and at conferences or events. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New England Cable News, and many other media outlets and named the kid to watch. Bringing together his journalistic, technologic and... find out more

Kelly Sutton

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Kelly Sutton is a software engineer living in New York City. He's started several successful Web projects and publications including HackCollege, the world's largest student-run blog; Cult of Less, a worldwide minimalist movement and many other smaller projects. His work has received attention from NBC Nightly News, Boing Boing, the BBC, Der Spiegel, The Times of London, ERF, ARD, ZDF, Deutsche Welle, CNN, FOLHA, Digital Planet, WNYC, Sydney Morning Herald, Enter Magazine and... find out more

Timothy Sykes

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Timothy Sykes, founder of Profitly, a site with over 4,000 traders sharing their performance openly, and Investimonials, a Yelp-like review site for 9,500+ financial products, author of "An American Hedge Fund", is a stock trader, entrepreneur and teacher as he turned his Bar Mitzvah gift money of $12,415 into $1.65 million in 4 years, was the #1 ranked short bias hedge fund manager 2003-2006 and has been the #1 ranked trader out of 50,000+ on Covestor 2007-2010 as his trading accounts have earned over 1,300%, every trade detailed on his blog... find out more

Siamak Taghaddos

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Siamak Taghaddos is the co-founder and CEO of Grasshopper Group, a technology incubator with multiple products that have empowered over 100,000 entrepreneurs to start and grow their small businesses. A lifelong student of marketing, Siamak is one of the youngest CEOs to be named to Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in America, is the founding supporter of National Entrepreneurs’ Day, and has been featured in various publications including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, CNN, FOX News, and other... find out more

Nicholas Tart

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Nick Tart is a 22-year-old alum of Colorado State University (2010). He has been an entrepreneur his whole life but didn't realize it until he took an entrepreneurship class at CSU. From then on, he has dedicated his career to teaching and helping young entrepreneurs through 14 Clicks and... find out more

Genevieve Thiers

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Genevieve Thiers took the nugget of idea she developed while in college and turned it into what has become a successful, multi-million dollar business. In September 2001, Thiers founded Sittercity.com, an online resource to help families and individuals across the nation find the care provider who meets their needs quickly, easily and most importantly safely. With this, Thiers not only started a company, but also created an entirely new industry that has skyrocketed in terms of size and popularity. Thiers, the oldest of seven children... find out more

Aj Thomas

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Angelé Jean (AJ) Thomas is a quintessential Generation Y employee of various Fortune 500 firms and start-up ventures with the goal to operationalize, evangelize and implement social entrepreneurship programs in inner-city communities. At age 22, Aj Thomas founded a consulting firm Entré Worldwide offering unique expertise and access to a network of professionals that blended successful entrepreneurial experience, academic/legal insight and practical business analysis to Gen Y and inner-city youth in the Silicon Valley. This venture led... find out more

Milena Thomas

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Milena Thomas wears many professional hats: she is a professional vocalist and voice teacher, as well as an instructor and researcher at the college level in finance and economics. Given her diverse background, her personal and professional goal is to bring the disciplines of arts and economics together. She believes that all artists are creative entrepreneurs and must think like business-people in order to have successful and fulfilling careers. She is also passionate about teaching and giving back her time and talents to the arts. She blogs... find out more

Nicolas Thomley

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Nicolas Thomley graduated from public high school and two weeks later left for Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego. Following boot camp Nicolas became a member of a reserve unit at Fort Snelling. Nicolas attended college where he studied organizational management and communication and received a Bachelors of Arts degree. While attending college Nicolas worked at a home for people with developmental disabilities. It was at this job that he decided to start a business of his own. Passionate about making a difference in the lives of others, Nicolas... find out more

Rosetta Thurman

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Rosetta Thurman grew up in the public housing projects of Cleveland, Ohio, and if it weren’t for the nonprofits in her community who helped her family in times of need, she doesn’t know where she would be today. Fueled by a passion for social change, she worked in the nonprofit community for over eight years before founding Thurman Consulting, an education company that specializes in leadership, diversity and social media initiatives to help purpose-driven professionals make a difference. As an author, speaker and coach, Rosetta's mission is... find out more

Tammy Tibbetts

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Tammy Tibbetts is the President and Founder of She's the First, a not-for-profit that sponsors girls’ education in the developing world. For underprivileged girls, the impact of a sponsorship is life-changing: Most will be the first in their families to graduate. For the Millennials who use their networks to creatively fundraise for these sponsorships, She’s the First provides community, leadership, reporting, and travel opportunities, and, most importantly, a sense of global citizenship. She co-founded the concert for She's the First, GIRLS... find out more

Adam Toren

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Brothers, Matthew Toren & Adam Toren, truly epitomize the entrepreneurial spirit. They have many teaching and research interests including Marketing, Business development, Entrepreneurial emergence, Entrepreneurial strategy management, Business growth techniques, Innovation and new venture creation. One of Matthew and Adam’s specialties are improving profitability of under-performing businesses with a unique and ‘bottom line’ program. Matthew & Adam provide instruction in management concepts and finance to emerging and distressed... find out more

Matthew Toren

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Matthew Toren, Co-Founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com, which is the largest social networking forum in the world for entrepreneurs - Matthew, along with his brother Adam are entrepreneurial mentors, authors, investors & have started, bought and sold several companies over the past 12 years. They currently own and operate a successful media company which includes several online/offline companies. The Toren Brothers are authors of the award winning book:Kidpreneurs (Basic Principles of Entrepreneurship for Kids aged 6-12yrs old). Their... find out more

Vanessa Van Petten

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Vanessa Van Petten specializes in social and emotional intelligence research and development. The focus of her company is to research youth behavior and help adults keep up with young adults. She wrote her first book when she was just 16 and is now working on a book for Penguin on how parents can use emotional intelligence to better understand their children. Her company not only reaches out to families, but also works with brands and individuals to help them use social and emotional intelligence to improve website traffic, sales and branding.... find out more

Alejandro Velez

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Alejandro Velez is co-founder of Back to the Roots (www.bttrventures.com), a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm that transforms coffee ground waste into the growing medium for gourmet mushrooms, mushroom kits and provides sustainable DIY products for families and kids. Velez is also founder and board chairman of the largest UC Berkeley non-profit organization, The Sage Mentorship Project Inc. (www.sagementors.org), a 1,000+ member mentoring program that creates individual, one-on-one pairings between UC Berkeley mentors and low-income... find out more

Vincent Vomero

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Vincent Vomero is Co-Owner and Chief Property Manager of Hodara Property Management which, since opening in September 2009, has built a multi-million dollar portfolio throughout the Boston area. A Biology and Business Administration graduate of Boston University, Vincent is especially interested in green construction. His scientific background has led him to approach problems with a focus on finding environment-friendly and sustainable building solutions. He has been featured in the media, including Michael Levy’s “50 Successful Property... find out more

Annie Wang

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Annie Wang is the co-founder, CTO, Creative Director, and Webmaster of Her Campus Media LLC (HerCampus.com), an online magazine for college women and marketing platform for companies looking to reach the college market. Her Campus launched in September 2009 after winning Harvard College’s business plan competition. Annie singlehandedly built and continues to develop the HerCampus.com site, building off her previous experiences with website design. She is responsible for managing the online publication of all Her Campus content as well as... find out more

Josh Weinstein

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Josh Weinstein is the founder of CollegeOnly.com. CollegeOnly is the evolution of two previous ventures: GoodCrush and RandomDorm. He also co-founded CollegeGovs - a listserv for student body presidents. Josh likes people, technology, and leveraging the latter for the benefit of the former. Born, raised, and currently living in NYC, Josh can be reached at [email protected]. Josh graduated from Princeton University in June 2009 with a degree in East Asian Studies focusing on modern China and Chinese language. At Princeton, Josh was President... find out more

Josh Weiss

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Josh Weiss is the Founder and President of Bluegala.com, an online retailer of dresses for social occasions including prom, evening, cocktail, and party dresses. He graduated with a BS in Commerce with a concentration in Finance from the University of Virginia in 2007. Prior to founding Bluegala, Josh worked as a high yield credit research analyst at Lehman Brothers covering the metals & mining and chemical... find out more

Tina Wells

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Tina Wells, CEO of Buzz Marketing Group earned her B.A. in Communication Arts graduating with honors from Hood College in 2002. Currently a Wharton School of Business student for marketing management, strategies for numerous clients within the beauty, entertainment, fashion, financial, and lifestyle sectors. Tina has worked with clients including: Maidenform, SonyBMG, PBS, P+G, Sesame Workshop, and American Eagle Outfitters. Essence’s 40 Under 40 Award, Billboard’s 30 Under 30 Award, and Inc’s 30 Under 30, just to name a few. She... find out more

Gary Whitehill

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Gary Whitehill is the founder of New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW), The Relentless Foundation and Whitehill International, each of which reflect his entrepreneurial drive and relentless energy. Thriving in challenging environments where he can uncover, extrapolate outward from and leverage all the pieces that maximize business impact, Gary’s energy is devoted to helping entrepreneurs prove to themselves and to the world that they can achieve anything they want. He has founded companies in numerous verticals including: consumer products,... find out more

Matt Wilson

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Matt Wilson is co-founder of Under30CEO.com a website dedicated to giving young entrepreneurs the tools and resources they need to succeed. After using social media to create huge buzz online landing Under30CEO in countless publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, Reuters and countless others he began helping others build their brands through the digital marketing firm Shadow Concepts LLC. Wilson’s passion for entrepreneurship began at Bryant University where he led the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization to becoming the... find out more

Adam Witty

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Adam Witty Founder & Chief Executive Officer Adam Witty is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advantage Media Group, heading up strategic business development and growth opportunities for the company. What began in the spare bedroom of his home is now an international media company with leading businesses in book publishing, magazine publishing, and television & video. Adam is the author of 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Magazine and co-author of How To Build Your Dental... find out more

Danny Wong

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Danny Wong is currently an undergraduate studying at Bentley University onto his second startup, Blank Label Group, running e-commerce businesses Blank Label and Thread Tradition, and their customization blog... find out more

Brian Wong

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Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced "keep"), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a "moments"-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model. Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the "4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List". Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal called Brian the "youngest person to ever receive funding by a venture capital firm". He was an early... find out more

Lea Woodward

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Online entrepreneur, community builder and digital publisher, Lea Woodward is the founder of Kinetiva - an organisation dedicated to helping people with a natural talent create a sustainable business from their talent. She left the London rat race in 2006 to become location independent and created a site in the same name which has garnered international media attention, including the BBC, The Guardian (UK), Cosmopolitan magazine, China Trends magazine and... find out more

Colin Wright

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Colin Wright is a serial entrepreneur, world-traveler and the founder of Ebookling. Moving to a new country every 4 months (based on votes from the readers of his blog, Exile Lifestyle), Colin engages in extreme lifestyle experiments in order to gain new perspective and figure out solutions to problems before they become problems. Colin currently runs a handful of small businesses alongside Ebookling and Exile Lifestyle, continues to consult with clients large and small about their brands and how to better align themselves with their... find out more

Charles Wu

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Charles Wu, CEO of Convergence Technologies Inc (CTI), is an entrepreneur and investor with domain expertise in the telecommunications, financial services and green technology space. CTI provides telecom, desktop virtualization, financial and IT services solutions to small-to-medium businesses via Digital Voice and Internet Services, the MitoTec Technology Platform, IP Pay Financial Services and Apex9 Hardware Distribution. At the age of 16, Charles became acquainted with the Internet at Infonautics Corporation (NASDAQ: INFO) after realizing that... find out more

Rebecca Zorowitz

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Rebecca Zorowitz is a multi talented entrepreneur who found a way to turn her passions into a successful business. As the co-founder of Ooh La La Candy, Rebecca has turned a start-up business into a multi-national player in the field of gourmet (or couture) candy. Rebecca brings many important skills and interest to her business. She has a keen eye for details, is excellent at multi-tasking, knows how to follow-up on tasks and uses her engaging and compassionate personality to create a productive working atmosphere. The bottom line is... find out more
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