Awards Don’t Hurt!
By Devesh Dwivedi
Hello everyone! I’m super excited to write this post… Here’s why – yours truly has been nominated for three different awards this year. Click on each one of these below to see my nomination and vote!
1. Calgary Choice Awards 2011 for Best in Media Personality/ Celebrity
2. FuEL Awards 2011 Best Young Entrepreneurs of Canada and
3. Small Business Influencers Awards 2011
While Calgary Choice Awards is a city level award focused on recognizing the City’s best businesses and talent, the FuEl Awards are to spotlight the up and coming young entrepreneurs and leaders of Canada and the Small Business Influencer Award is to identify and recognize the Top 100 Influencers in Small Business domain across North America.
To be nominated along with the who’s who like Guy Kawasaki, Carol Roth, Robert Scoble, and many more intelligent and accomplished personalities is humbling to say the least and of course rewarding like nothing else. You see the biggest reward for my work is when...
Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Shelly Sun
By Devesh Dwivedi
Today we are talking to Shelly Sun our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Former VP of Finance at Avolar, decided to start a business when she painfully saw the need for it firsthand. Compelled by the loss of a loved one for lack of dependable, supportive, and complete care, Shelly founded BrightStar as a family business in 2002. With 130 locations in US and International expansion in the works, BrightStar is an established elder care, child care and medical staffing provider today. Let’s dig deeper in her story…...
Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Niko Pipaloff
By Devesh Dwivedi
Happy 4th of July everyone! July 4th is the Independence Day for America but we celebrate independence everyday an employee breaks the 9to5 jail and declares his/her independence. We feature those freedom fighters here as “Our Heroes” and today’s guest under that series is – Niko Pipaloff. A Management Consultant by profession, Niko recently broke the 9to5 jail after winning the StartupWeekendNYC last month (June’11) and is enjoying the cheers and challenges of his startup – Tagify.us Let’s congratulate Niko on his new found freedom and talk to him to find out more…...
Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Julie Braun
By Devesh Dwivedi
Next “Our Heroes” guest is Julie Braun, the proud half of the SuperIntern duo! Former VP of Marketing & Creative Service for a large corporate was ‘let go’ along with many of her colleagues which is when Julie took time off to reflect on her career and life. Let’s talk to Julie and find out how this ‘creative’ type charted her own path to success…...
Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Jesse Mecham
By Devesh Dwivedi
Our next guest under the ‘Our Heroes‘ series is Jesse Mecham, former CPA, now Founder of “You Need A Budget”. Jesse’s personal need and pain of not having an easy to use budgeting system that works too, made him work on a side project which he later on launched and scaled into full blown business that helps thousands of individuals and families have a debt free life, save more, and eventually stop living paycheck to paycheck. Let’s find out more…...
