Jeff Berger, President of Digital Media at Universum Group and CEO of Doostang. Doostang is a top destination for more than a million elite professionals looking for inside access, quality career advice, and jobs from top employers.
Jason Jannati, co-founder and chief communication officer of greeNEWit, an organization that helps homeowners and businesses adopt best practices to cut costs and achieve energy savings.
Shradha Agarwal, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of ContextMedia. The company offers socially conscious content to physicians in every state, helping patients become better informed as they wait for their appointments. Shradha also works tirelessly as an angel investor and startup mentor.
Ilya Pozin, Founder of Ciplex, a digital marketing agency. In 2012, Inc. Magazine recognized Ilya as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur. In 2013 LinkedIn selected Ilya as one of 100 Influencers, along with the likes of Richard Branson, Barack Obama, Tony Robbins and Mark Cuban. He founded Ciplex at 17.
Ray Land, President and CEO of Fabulous Coach Lines, a luxury motor coach charter and tour company. He started the business at age 17 with one used 1989 motor coach, and has since grown it to 200 employees and thousands of passengers daily — and feat recognized many times over (like with a coveted spot on last year’s Inc. 30 Under 30 list).
Jim Belosic, Co-Founder and CEO of Pancake Labs. The company’s flagship product, ShortStack, helps small business owners easily build custom apps for their social media profiles. Now serving 190,000 users in its second year, ShortStack expects its user base to grow to more than 300,000 in 2013 — and Jim was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
Trevor Sumner, President and co-founder of LocalVox, a local social and mobile marketing platform for local businesses that was named one of the top startups in NYC by Business Insider. He has spent ~15 years in startups as a product and marketing executive for cutting edge technologies and services.
Shaun King, CEO and founder of HopeMob. HopeMob combines the power of humanitarian crowdsourcing with a built-in social network.
Emerson Spartz, CEO and founder of Spartz Media The company is a leader in the digital content space, running 18 websites including OMG Facts, GivesMeHope, and MuggleNet. With sites accumulating 160 million page views per month, Spartz Media is on the forefront of online community building and digital content creation.
Social media marketing expert Laura Roeder shares 5 ways to tame your inbox — not with labels or priority mailboxes, but by simply getting fewer emails in the first place.
The fast-growing marketing firm Wpromote is not Michael Mothner’s (today’s live chat host — RSVP or watch here) first rodeo. Michael, a serial entrepreneur, didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the ability to start a business online — he …
Daniel Ha, CEO and co-founder of Disqus, the web’s discussion network — which now reaches over 700 million unique visitors every single month. The company has been funded by Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners, along with angel investors.
For BrokerHunter co-founder Jeff Testerman, success is measured not in dollars, but in how well he serves his financial services industry clients year after year.
Mike Seiman, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of CPX Interactive (and this week’s live chat host — RSVP here) founded the earliest incarnation of his fast-growing company while still a college student at Hofstra University in the early 2000s. By the …
Eric Koester, most recently the founder of Zaarly. In 2012, Zaarly was named one of the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, and since May 2011, it’s facilitated millions of dollars in peer-to-peer transactions every single month. P.S.: Zaarly went from prototype to seed funding in 54 hours of Startup Weekend.
Amy Jo Martin, founder of Digital Royalty — a firm that helps companies, celebs, sports leagues and athletes build, measure and monetize their web presence. With nearly 1.3 million Twitter followers of her own, Amy Jo’s client list includes Shaquille O’Neal, FOX Sports, SELF, Chicago White Sox, UFC, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Doubletree by Hilton and even Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com fame, to name a few. Join us to pick her brain on all things digital.
David Hauser, co-founder of Grasshopper (“the entrepreneur’s phone system”). To date, Grasshopper has provided virtual phone services to over 100,000 entrepreneurs to date (and is growing, fast) — and they’ve bootstrapped their way to the bank, turning a profit in just two months.
Ethan Austin, founder of DealGooder and co-founder of medical crowdfunding platform GiveForward. Since 2008, GiveForward has raised $2.5M in venture funding — and more importantly, helped families raise more than $25M for things like their loved ones’ cancer treatments and organ transplants.
Tom Cannon, co-founder and CEO of moving box rental company BungoBox. BungoBox is an award-winning company (recently named Orlando Business Journal’s “Outstanding Small Business 2012”) with 20 locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Alexia Vernon, creator of the Step Into Your Moxie platform — which includes a yearly Moxy Camp for female change makers, workshops and a virtual Influencer academy. Hailed a “Moxie Maven” by the White House, Alexia is on a mission to build a new generation of “heart-centered” ethical leaders — care to join her?
