“I always wanted to own my own business,” says Alexis Monson ’05, co-founder of Punkpost. She found it in a greeting card company that helps people send cards as easily as sending a text message. “Even when I was a little kid, I knew I was going to start my own company.”
When Alexis traveled from South Dakota to start college at UMD, she studied business administration and marketing.
She enrolled in a class about entrepreneurship taught by Peter Stark. “That class put in order all the things that I needed to think about,” she says. She studied managing a business, financing, marketing, and promotion. “The class was focused on coming up with a new innovative idea. I didn't have one at the time, but I knew with time and more life experience, it would eventually come to me.”
The Big Idea
Years later, after getting work experience with Yelp, the company that connects people with local businesses through websites and Apps, and after working with Brit+Co, a leading digital media and commerce company, the idea came to her. Read More