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Stuart Skorman

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Stuart Skorman is an entrepreneur who founded four companies: Empire Video, Reel.com, HungryMinds.com, and Elephant Pharmacy. He is known for pioneering new business models and marketing them to baby boomers, challenging the long-standing companies in the industries he enters.[1][2] As a result of his work in the dot com industry, he was referred to as one of the 'dotshots' of the 1990s.[3]

Skorman was also an executive at Bread & Circus, the Boston-based natural foods chain bought by Whole Foods in 1992, and is the author of Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur, Why I Can't Stop Starting Over (Jossey-Bass, 2006).[4]

References

  1. ^ Welles, Ed (2004-09-01). "Natural Selection". CNN Money. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  2. ^ "Stuart's Elephant". San Francisco Chronicle. 2003-02-19. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  3. ^ Leigh, Suzanne (2007-01-14). "ReinventYourself.com". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  4. ^ Skorman, Stuart; Guthrie, Catherine (2007). Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur: Why I Can't Stop Starting Over. Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-8732-8.