2012 marked my return to the world of start-ups and growing innovative brands fast.
I kicked off Boom! Social, a social media marketing company, with our first Social Boom! conference (yep, that's Gary Vaynerchuk, our first keynote speaker) and wrapped things up 5 years later after building a social media community to over 2 million followers and helping 38,000 entrepreneurs leverage social media to market their businesses in one of our paid membership programs.