Spencer Helm – Internet Marketer Realizing His Father Was Right

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 around the United States and stopping in cultural backwaters such as San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and like ‘burghs…

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Jeff Hasen – Brand Architect, Mobile Marketer, Tech Evangelist

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 the worldwide leader in Internet security technology. In recent years, he has made a dramatic impact on companies in the…

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Clark Benson – Founder of Ranker and serial entrepreneur

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 successes – real businesses, real profitability.  He sold prior internet startup eCrush to Hearst in 2006.  Benson is also the founder of Almighty Music Marketing, which has provided various marketing services to the music industry since 1995.  Benson has always rolled some of his earnings into his other businesses, and self-financed the initial seed $1million for Ranker. Clark started his career in business affairs at Virgin Records America and co-wrote the book College: Your Guide To The Best Five Years of Your Life.

If you’d like to learn more about eCrush’s sale to Hearst media, here is an interesting case study titled Why timing the M&A market is tricky.

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Ryan Wines

Ryan Wines

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 then, Ryan has worked hard to maintain that kind of intensity in most all that he does. Residing in Portland,…

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Evan Davies

Evan Davies

Growing up outside of Milwaukee, Wisc., Evan doesn’t stray far from the hard-working and personal work ethic that the Midwest is known for. With an internal drive and ambition for adventure and knowledge, Evan attended the University of Montana where he successfully blended the age-old dilemma of the work/life balance…

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