Dan McComb
Filmmaker (Biznik Cofounder)

Biznik

Websites:

• Biznik on YouTube
• Biznik on Facebook
• Follow me on Twitter

In my former life, I was a photojournalist whose work appeared in newspapers and magazines like Time and Newsweek. After realizing that journalism was going to change me before I changed the world, I left the profession in 1998 and taught myself how to build websites for a living. I found self-employment hugely rewarding but surprisingly isolating. I was surprised to be turned away when I tried to join a local business networking group because "we only have room for one person from your profession, and your spot has been filled." In 2005, Lara Eve Feltin and I cofounded Biznik (http://biznik.com), with a simple premise: business networking shouldn't suck.

Today Biznik is an award-winning community that connects more than 21,000 forward-thinking business people in 120 countries. And we always have room for one more, no matter what profession you represent (as long as it's legal!). Members connect using Biznik's social network and strengthen relationships at more than 100 member-hosted events every month.

In October 2008, Lara and I were honored to be included in Seattle's top 25 most innovative entrepreneurs list by Seattle Business Monthly, and included in Seattle Magazine's 2008 Power Players list of most influential people. I am approaching my goal of completely forgetting what it was like to be a corporate drone. And I'm on a mission to connect great minds with interesting work.

I'm best at team building and collaboration. I love working on interesting, cool projects with fun, talented people, and don't mind constraints - I enjoy finding ways to do a lot with a little.

Your small business to be successful. That's what I want right now more than anything else, because it'll be good for the economy, good for me, and good for you.

University of Montana, Syracuse University, BA in journalism, 1991.

Co-founder of Biznik. Part owner of Visual Contact from 2000-present. Senior Developer, Cypress Consulting, 2004-2005. Publication Designer, Sasquatch Books, 1998-2000 Staff Photojournalist, The Spokesman-Review, 1995-1998