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Idea Mensch

Featuring people with good ideas from all over the Internet.
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Corey Guilbault – Alignment junky, process wonk and exorcist

If the devil is in the details, Corey Guilbault is an exorcist. Corey’s formal title is the Director of Operational Integration at Rockefeller Consulting/Insight Capitalists (RC/IC) - a ...
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Aviv Hadar – Owner/Founder of Think Brilliant and SoulPancake

In 2007, Aviv Hadar founded Think Brilliant Media Studios in Portland, Oregon. The group is easily one of the most talented and innovative teams to hit the technology ...
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Seth Godin – Author & The Most Popular Blogger In the World

Seth Godin is an author, blogger and entrepreneur. He's best known for his blog, the most popular in the world by single author. His books have been translated into more ...
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Brianne Burrowes | Editor-in-Chief, Blogger, Fashionista

A born creator,  Brianne Burrowes'  favorite childhood picture is an image of herself holding chunky crayons to a granular coloring book page. With her hair in pigtails and six-year-old chub ...
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Chris Wright – Product Marketing Manager at Google

Chris Wright was born in Butte (that's not meant to be funny), graduated from the University of Montana, and has been working at Google since 2003. He has ...
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Paige Dunn – Sport Psychology Consultant

As a Sport Psychology Consultant, Paige Dunn counsels and educates athletes on the mental component of athletic experience through her private practice, Xcel Sport Psychology Group. In her ...
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Suzanne Akin: Owner of Akinz, Founder of Morningbird Collective

Suzanne Akin is a freelance graphic designer that has a thing for starting companies. Her pride and joy is her personal clothing line, www.akinz.com which is geared towards the snowboarding and ...
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Katy Kippen – More ideas than time

As a young girl, Katy had more ideas than time to work on them; the same is true of Katy today. Katy spent much of her youth overseas with her military ...
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Ian Murray – Triathlon coach, entrepreneur, husband and son

Ian Murray grew up in Aspen, Colorado and had an alpine skiing career before moving to California and launching into triathlon. Ian is one of only 15 level three certified ...
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Shay Johnson – Snowboarding Through a Fembot’s Eyes

In August 2007, Shannon "Shay" Johnson began shayboarder.com a blog that answered to the majority of snowboarders, male or female. With fresh daily content 365 days a year, ...
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Ryan Born – Founder of AudioMicro

Ryan Born started his career in the Atlanta office of PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Assurance and Business Advisory Services Practice where he gained experience in an array of industries. He later transferred ...
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Chris Halliwell – Technology Marketing Zelig

Chris Halliwell is an experienced business-to-business marketing professional focused on helping technology-enabled companies become market-driven.  Her teaching, consulting, and process facilitation clients include Analog Devices, Baker Hughes, Corning, Intuitive Surgical, ...
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Chris Logan: Entrepreneur, Lover of skiing, wine and technology

Chris is the Founder and CEO of ccSync, a service that provides groups of mobile and non-mobile coworkers real-time short messaging that is instant, private and continuous - plus one-click ...
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Shawna Harch – Shaping Thought With Words 


Although she originally wanted to design the next artistic masterpiece, Shawna Harch ended up with her fingers on the keyboard. She thanks her mother, who spent many years as an ...
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Steve Markwell – A mensch who saves dogs’ lives

Steve Markwell is the founder and mensch behind the Olympic Animal Sanctuary in Forks, Washington. Long story short the Olympic Animal Sanctuary takes care of dogs. Not just any dogs, ...
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Owen Gue – Owner of The Cycling House

Owen Gue is president of The Cycling House, an all-inclusive training destination for cyclists and triathletes.  Owen is from Missoula, MT where he spends the summer and fall then migrates ...
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Steven Speldewinde and Eric Zirgulis – FishTwits Founders

Steven Speldewinde and Eric Zirgulis are the Co-Founders of FishTwits.com. Steve (a law graduate from Australia) and Eric (a history graduate from California) met whilst pursuing Masters Degrees in Entrepreneurship ...
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Shawna X. Huang – Visual Stimulator

Shawna X. Huang's claim to the title “Visual Stimulator” stems from her desire to engage people with thought-provoking work. She believes art is meant to be shared – and that ...
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Richard Thalheimer – Founder of The Sharper Image/RichardSolo

Richard Thalheimer, founder and former CEO of The Sharper Image, was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. After attending public school there, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree ...
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Spencer Helm – Internet Marketer Realizing His Father Was Right

Spencer was born in the metropolitan and international cultural capital of Billings, Montana. Desperate to show young Spencer ‘how the other half lives’, his parents put an emphasis on traveling ...
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Darick Dang – Designer, web developer, student of life

Darick Dang is a graphic designer, web developer, professional pianist, thinker, biologist, fashion enthusiast and music connoisseur. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Darick's ultimate dream is to put Portland on ...
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Jeff Hasen – Brand Architect, Mobile Marketer, Tech Evangelist

Jeff Hasen builds, strengthens and protects brands that impact people near and far. He has led results-driven programs for the world's largest food company, the globe's unifying sports showcase and ...
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Justin Bigart – Lifestyle entrepreneur, reluctant business person

A serial entrepreneur, Justin currently splits his time growing Wisetail, driving the technology and marketing behind Sage Spa Living which he co-founded with his wife, serving on the Board of ...
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Robert Moss – Copywriter, ex-cinematographer, storyteller

Robert got into advertising by accident. As a cinematographer on music videos, documentaries, low budget features and spots, Robert's connections at Panavision as well as at post-production facilities were eager ...
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Clark Benson – Founder of Ranker and serial entrepreneur

Clark Benson is the founder of Ranker, a consumer web startup that is a platform for ranking . . . anything.  Ranker is Benson's 5th startup; all prior startups were ...
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Cecilia Doan – Real-Life Walking, Talking, Blogging, Fashion Girl

Cecilia is a full-time student, but not your typical. Mature beyond her years and generally in sky-high heels, you can't overlook a gal like Cecilia. Instead of house parties, top ...
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Ryan Wines – Indie music thought leader and occasional heretic

Born three weeks overdue and weighing in at nearly 10lbs at birth, Ryan made a big impact early on, giving his poor mother nearly 24 hours of intense labor. Since ...
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Jesse Lakes – Serial online entrepreneur, full time bum

Jesse Lakes is an online entrepreneur with an addiction to building web based companies.  His first start up began with high school graduation money and he is now fully engaged ...
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Jakki Mohr – High Tech Marketing Professor, Author, Consultant

Dr. Mohr is a Regents Professor, the Jeff and Martha Hamilton Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Marketing in the School of Business Administration at the University of Montana-Missoula.  She ...
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Evan Ferrari – Strategic Planner, Launches Japanese cars in US

Evan Ferrari works at an ad agency. He knows a lot about obsessiveness in people... mostly music, movies, TV shows, model trains and other things that you wouldn't think matter ...
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Steven Sundheim – Founder of Grupthink

Sundheim earned a B.A. in Geography from the University of Montana in 1999, specializing in cartography and town planning. He earned the department Faculty Award, given to one senior each ...
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John Stepleton – Innovator, Entrepreneur, Steward

John Stepleton provides insight so others are better able to see what is possible.  A serial entrepreneur and 3-time Inc. 500 Growth Company owner, John’s unique experience and perspective sheds ...
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Russ Fletcher – Evangelist for the economic future of Montana

Born in Omaha with stops in a number of states and countries, my wife, Alexis, and I spent the bulk of our time together in SF and London before we ...
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Schuyler Mann – Openlink Mobile Business Guy, Explorer, Angler

After graduating with an MBA from the University of Montana (‘09), Schuyler co-founded Openlink Mobile, a company that builds mobile marketing solutions for small business needs. The first product ...
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Stephen Webb – Investment Analyst turned Internet Entrepreneur

Stephen Webb is the Director of Market Development at Portfolio Monkey, a San Francisco based startup that provides simple web based investment tools for the DIY investor.  Previously, Stephen worked ...
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Adam Steffen – Brand fanatic, strategic thinker, scotch aficionado

Adam was born and raised in the great state of Montana by two busy executives. He lived in great American cities throughout Montana such as Chinook, Great Falls, Whitefish -- ...
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Will Johnston – Entrepreneur and Owner of Growandmake.com

Long time entrepreneur involved with multiple startups and Silicon Valley Fortune 500 companies. Successfully launched multiple websites and products for a variety of Internet and e-Commerce businesses. Love to innovate, explore new ...
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Evan Davies – Idea Mensch Skipper, Marketer, Fly Fisherman

Growing up outside of Milwaukee, WI Evan doesn’t stray far from the hard-working and personal work ethic that the Midwest is known for. With an internal driving ambition for ...
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Mario Schulzke – Idea Mensch Founder

Mario was born in Germany,  raised with the help of his Prussian great-grandmother, educated by nuns and is in constant attempt to live an interesting life. He has lived in ...