I didn’t intend to go into marketing. It kind of happened by accident, which is how many of my career shifts have occurred. I tend to keep myself open to possibilities and I’ve had good intuition about when to make a career pivot. It was early 2006 when I first made the pivot into marketing. At the time I was trying to become a Systems Consultant, which was part outside enterprise...

I went to the Startup Grind conference in San Francisco earlier this year and it’s one of the better ones that I’ve gone to. After a day of meeting some colleagues in the valley I got settled in for the opening keynote. Once the main sessions were done, Derek Anderson the founder of Startup Grind did something unique. He gave the microphone to the audience and asked a few people in...