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Christine Comaford’s Summary
Bill Gates calls her "super high bandwidth." Bill Clinton has thanked her for "fostering American entrepreneurship." Newsweek says "by reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with."
New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance.
Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her New York Times (and USA Today, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Amazon.com ) bestselling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or http://www.rulesforrenegades.com.
Christine has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.
Christine Comaford’s Specialties:
business start up,consultant,business growth,business acceleration,entrepreneur,
Christine Comaford’s Experience
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CEO
Mighty Ventures
(Management Consulting industry)
January 1990 — Present (19 years 11 months)
Since 1990, Christine Comaford has guided over 100 small businesses and more than 700 of the Fortune 1000 in effecting proactive, intentional change. Technology, business, management - Christine works with all types of change which require an entrepreneurial mind-set. She knows the issues involved in entrepreneurship. Christine has founded five companies, all which either went public or were acquired at a profit. She has held board seats at over 20 companies in diverse industries.
Christine offers a number of speeches geared to awaken people to their true potential. She emphasizes the importance of pursing success in both one's business and personal life. To reinforce and support the success steps from her speeches, Christine offers on-site and conference-call consulting.
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Christine Comaford’s Interests:
Former Buddhist monk, software engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, venture capitalist
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FEDERAL BIZ Network - Government Stimulus Teaming Jobs PMI Consulting Funding Sales Opportunities -
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Lynxster.com - matching job seekers with recruiters and employers -
Orange Tree Open Networkers
Christine Comaford’s Honors:
2007 - Rules for Renegades becomes #3 bestseller on the New York Times Hardcover Advice/How To list, #2 on the Wall Street Journal Business list, #1 on the USA Today Business list, and #1 on Amazon.com overall!
2007 - Rules for Renegades is selected as one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Best Business Books for Summer 2007
2007 - Christine appears on CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”, MSNBC’s “Your Business”, and regional news in San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, and throughout Canadian national TV
2007 – Christine’s Finance and Growth column is selected for permanent placement on the home page of www.businessweek.com/smallbiz. BusinessWeek.com was the fifth most highly trafficked site on the web in 2006
2006 – Interviewed by PBS for her third guest appearance, this time on NERD TV
2005 - Provided on-air insights/commentary for the CNN/FORTUNE magazine TV special "The Top 25 Business Leaders"
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