Jenna Arnold was not your average teenager who wanted to gossip about who she saw at the mall or who was hooking up with who. Instead Jenna began to notice simple problems in the world when she was traveling and thought about how they could be fixed. After working in the education system and the United Nations Jenna started her own company, Press Play Productions. Jenna realized that…
CEO of MTV Judy McGrath on Gen Y and Social Change at UN Week 2010
by / ⠀Startup Advice / September 20, 2010Elizabeth Gore from the United Nations Foundation interviews Judy McGrath about activating the millennial network around global issues. This interview is from the Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit taking place today in New York for UN Week. Many people don’t realize the impact that MTV takes to create social change. They were one of the first networks to talk about HIV and AIDS and recently ran Hope…
What the MTV Video Music Awards Show us About Creating Buzz
by / ⠀Finding Customers• Startup Advice / September 15, 2010The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards were aired this past Sunday. The event is big in the music scene but also draws a big audience from the younger generation. If you watched the awards you were sure to notice that at times the artists, hosts and producers just seem plain crazy with what goes on. But there is a reason behind this and a reason why MTV likes…
What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? The Founders of The Buried Life
by / ⠀Entrepreneur Interviews / March 11, 2010What do you want to do before you die? That’s the question 4 guys asked themselves one summer and they decided to head out on a road-trip to conquer as many as they could. They started a blog, hustled for sponsors, got into their rickety old RV and set out to have some fun. Before long they had an offer from MTV to create a show and The…