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Corey Kossack
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Sitting in my college dorm room at Arizona State University in 2004, I discovered I was an entrepreneur and launched my first e-commerce business selling DVDs online. Two years later, I was recognized as one of the world's largest retailers on eBay.

Today, I am an award-winning entrepreneurial executive, author and social media enthusiast. I built a strong reputation as a young leader in the entrepreneur community as President/CEO of multiple startups, created a million-dollar company from scratch and have been featured extensively in national media for my entrepreneurial efforts in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times, U.S. News & World Report, Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, PBS and much more.

I have been awarded multiple honors including Biz AZ Top 35 Entrepreneurs Under 35, Business Journal Power Generation, 2nd...  Read More
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on July 26th 2010

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Entrepreneurs love to rush. We are always in such a hurry to get things done, whether it be the launch of a website or the closing of our first big deal. We rush primarily out of fear, and sometimes that fear gets in the way of doing the right thing for our product and those who use it. What fear? Sometimes it's: "If I don't get this out to the world today, someone else will come out with a better version tomorrow", or "If I don't get an investor in the next 90 days, my company is going to go under and all my hard work will have been for nothing".

While there certainly is validity to both of these fears, entrepreneurs need to remember that there is always a way to continue moving towards achieving success - that is, if you meet the three following requirements:

1) You genuinely care about the impact your product or service will have on the people who...  Read More

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imageFacebook is continuing to move forward with initiatives to spread its platform outside the walls of Facebook. The early implementations of Facebook connect by third-party sites focused primarily on allowing users to register and login via Facebook, rather than having to register through the site itself, but new implementations are taking things much further. Check out a couple shining examples below of how Facebook Connect is being utilized by new startups that you may or may not have heard of yet.

image1. Thread.com - Thread is a new service that allows users to meet friends of friends through their social circle, all utilizing Facebook's social graph. When you sign in to Thread, you will see which of your Facebook friends are already using Thread, how many friends of friends are using Thread, and can invite any of your Facebook...  Read More

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