Donna Fenn is the author of Upstarts: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success (McGraw-Hill, Sept. 2009). Upstarts deconstructs the DNA of a new generation of young entrepreneurs, analyzes their success strategies, and provides a important glimpse into the entrepreneurial landscape of the future. Fenn also wrote Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become A Leader of the Pack. Alpha Dogs profiles eight extraordinarily successful small companies in very ordinary industries-- a bike shop, an auction company, a chain of ice cream parlors, a sock manufacturer, a grocery store, a commercial bakery, a motorcycle dealership, and an alliance of public relations firms - to illustrate how business success isn't necessarily about what you do but how you do it.
Fenn has more than twenty years experience writing about entrepreneurship and small business trends. She is a contributing editor at Inc. magazine where she helps manage the 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs feature, and a columnist on OPEN Forum, where she writes about startups. She is also an international keynote speaker and the founder of Alpha Dogs Media Group, which helps organizations and brands reach the small business community through events, keynote speeches, and the creation of custom content. Clients include Visa, Alticor, American Express, Sieman's, Dell, State Farm, and Regions Bank, among others. Her work has appeared in Inc., The New York Times, Newsweek, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly, Working Woman, Working Mother, Family Money, C... See more
Donna Fenn is the author of Upstarts: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success (McGraw-Hill, Sept. 2009). Upstarts deconstructs the DNA of a new generation of young entrepreneurs, analyzes their success strategies, and provides a important glimpse into the entrepreneurial landscape of the future. Fenn also wrote Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become A Leader of the Pack. Alpha Dogs profiles eight extraordinarily successful small companies in very ordinary industries-- a bike shop, an auction company, a chain of ice cream parlors, a sock manufacturer, a grocery store, a commercial bakery, a motorcycle dealership, and an alliance of public relations firms - to illustrate how business success isn't necessarily about what you do but how you do it.
Fenn has more than twenty years experience writing about entrepreneurship and small business trends. She is a contributing editor at Inc. magazine where she helps manage the 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs feature, and a columnist on OPEN Forum, where she writes about startups. She is also an international keynote speaker and the founder of Alpha Dogs Media Group, which helps organizations and brands reach the small business community through events, keynote speeches, and the creation of custom content. Clients include Visa, Alticor, American Express, Sieman's, Dell, State Farm, and Regions Bank, among others. Her work has appeared in Inc., The New York Times, Newsweek, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly, Working Woman, Working Mother, Family Money, CFO, Corporate Finance, Pink, Parents, and New England Monthly.
In 2001, Fenn was a co-recipient of the Women's Economic Round Table Entrepreneurship Prize, sponsored by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. From 1988 to 1992, she lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she was a correspondent for The Associated Press and covered a variety of issues including business, culture, the economy and the Gulf War. She now lives in Pelham, NY with her husband and three dogs. She is also the proud mom of two GenYers, graduates of Tulane and Cornell who are gainfully employed!
