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The Jackie Jones Challenge: Ryan P. Allis
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Ryan P. Allis, 22, is the Chief Executive Officer of iContact the industry’s leading email marketing, RSS feed and blogging software, the Chairman of Virante, Inc, a web marketing consulting firm that assists companies build sales on the web, and the author of the book Zero to One Million.
Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and an international speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, marketing, and innovation. Today, Ryan spends most of his time on his latest venture, iContact. As CEO he’s managed the company from its start in July 2003 to its current size with 70 employees, more than 16,000 customers, and $7 million in annual sales.
At the age of 18, Ryan wrote and published a book entitled, Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales (McGraw-Hill). Today at the age of 22, he has been a keynote speaker and panel participant at conferences from Chicago to London. As a team leader with the Lead America Entrepreneurship Conference, Ryan has traveled the United States helping teach entrepreneurship to high school students. Ryan has been featured on ABC News and in Fortune Small Business, Investors’ Business Daily, the Daily Times of India, Entrepreneur Magazine, SuccessCoach Magazine, CosmoGirl, and Young Money Magazine, and in 2005 was named by BusinessWeek as one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.”
Ryan’s long-term goals include being a U.S. Senator and starting a foundation that works to reduce poverty and improve healthcare and education in developing nations. Ryan is presently on leave from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is a senior economics major and a Blanchard Scholar.
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Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and an international speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, marketing, and innovation. Today, Ryan spends most of his time on his latest venture.
I am deeply in love with every single piece of information you post here. Will be back often to read more updates!
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Great post Jackie! Its really amazing! Most of the people spend their whole life to reach this position but here we see, sometimes success can come at early stage of life as well. And I think, these people really deserve it.I also belief,when anybody read about this young entrepreneur, certainly s/he will be encouraged.
An exemplary figure for the potential entrepreneurs!!!
He’s 22 years old and a CEO. Wow,he really great mentor and have a great experience of Internet Marketing Business.
Ryan’s long-term goals include being a U.S. Senator and starting a foundation that works to reduce poverty and improve healthcare and education in developing nations. Ryan is presently on leave from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is a senior economics major and a Blanchard Scholar
That’s a fantastic news.The world needs this kinda talented boys like Ryan who reached the stage where he is in now in such a short age of his life.We all wish him good luck and hope with his talents and hard works he will come up with more beneficial services for us.
Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11 in 1995.Ryan is currently working on the manuscript for his next book Dare Mighty Things: How Entrepreneurs & Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing the World.
He is also the author of the book Zero to One Million, published by McGraw-Hill in February 2008, which reached the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. In 2005, Ryan was named by BusinessWeek as one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25″ and in 2008 he received Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Carolinas along with his partner and iContact co-founder Aaron Houghton.
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any tips on how to become a successful businessman in young age?
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What an wonderful episode is this!!.I really feel like flying on reading your blog.Thanks for this great stuff.
On the social entrepreneur side, Ryan hosts monthly social entrepreneur meetups at his house in Chapel Hill. He is the founder of The Humanity Campaign, a non-profit grant-making organization that provides support to community-based organizations in the developing world working in the fields of education, rural healthcare, conflict resolution, nutrition, human rights, and technology.
yan travels each year to East Africa to visit the non-profit organizations The Humanity Campaign supports. In July 2009, he visited 19 non-profits and community-based organizations in Kenya and Uganda including Carolina for Kibera in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Concerned Parents Association in Lira, Uganda and Invisible Children in Gulu, Uganda.
Ryan is currently the Board Chairman for Nourish International, which has chapters at 21 colleges across the United States. Nourish teaches entrepreneurship to college students and uses the net profits from student ventures to invest in social entrepreneurs and community-based organizations in the developing world focused on eliminating extreme poverty and hunger in our lifetime.
Ryan is a 2009 honorary StartingBloc Fellow and has given keynote addresses on social entrepreneurship at the 2009 MIT IDEAS Competition and the 2009 StartingBloc Yale Institute for Social Innovation. He is also a member of the British Council’s TN2020 Network.
Hs also attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was an economics major and a Blanchard Scholar. Ryan is currently enrolled in the EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program (EMP).
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