A B O U T U S
The Growing Ventures Team
Growing Ventures Director Dave Taylor, the lead consultant,
has been involved with the Internet since 1980.
A prolific author, he has been published over a thousand times,
and sold over 500,000 books,
including "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts", "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther",
the best-selling "Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages",
"Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours", and "Global Software". He has also
spoken at many industry conferences including
MacWorld, Internet Expo, EDI World, Internet World,
the Waterside Publishing Conference, and Web Commerce.
On the business side, Dave has created, grown, arranged for outside
investments and ultimately sold The Internet Mall and iTrack.com. He
has also sold off startup ClickThruStats LLC, and has at least two
additional startup ventures he's nurturing along. Without
question, Dave is an experienced entrepreneur and corporate executive.
He has a Bachelors in Computer Science, a Masters in Educational
Computing and a Masters in Business Administration. He teaches business
and technology classes for both the University of Colorado, Boulder and
the University of Phoenix Online. You can learn more
about Mr. Taylor at his web
site.
Additional staff that's used on a consulting basis include:
- Susan Cooney
- Susan, a specialist in start-up technology companies, has over 15 years
experience in senior marketing and business development roles with iTrack,
LinkExchange, and InterNex. She is co-author of "The eAuction Insider".
Susan has a bachelor's degree, with honors, in computer graphic design
and has completed
graduate coursework in organization and management at the University of
California, Berkeley.
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