Entrepreneur Profile Of Kevin Popovi ﾃￜ - 1173 Words

Entrepreneur Profile of Kevin Popović, Founder CEO of Ideahaus On March 18, 2015, I had the pleasure to interview Kevin Popović, founder and CEO of Ideahaus, a creative communications agency, with studios in San Diego, CA and Pittsburgh, PA. Ideahaus operates in various fields, including communications planning, account management and creative development. Kevin will soon celebrate the 25th anniversary of his award-winning â€Å"boutique agency,† which we started back in 1990. In 2010, Kevin Popović publicly reflected on this success by publishing his first book, 20YEARS Communications, along with Marshal Carper. His highly-anticipated second title, Satellite Marketing: Using Social Media to Create Engagement, will be published on September 16, 2015. I know Kevin from being a part-time lecturer at San Diego State University, where he teaches about â€Å"Social Media Strategy / Customer Engagement† as well as â€Å"Creativity Innovation.† Characteristics of Entrepreneur Even tough entrepreneurship was not historically considered a viable â€Å"career path† in his family, Kevin Popović became intrinsically motivated to start his own company the day his daughter was born. As he reflected during our interview, he could not handle being systematically brought down by his former boss, a characteristic we seem to find in a lot of entrepreneurs. Kevin also had experience in a variety of different industries, but did not know how to combine them all. As soon as he realized he could combine all