Founder Dialogues featuring Diane Hessan of Communispace (Video)

Monday Nov 29, 2010 by Keith Cline - Founder, VentureFizz

On October 27th, Eric Paley held his latest Founder Dialogues event!  This time, in his usual sit-down discussion format, he featured Diane Hessan, President & CEO of Communispace in Watertown, MA. 

Communispace is the leader in generating game-changing insights via private online communities.  They are one of Boston's fastest growing companies with approximately $50M in revenue and 300 employees.  Communispace's client roster is essentially a who's who list of major corporations to include: Kraft, HP, Charles Schwab, Hallmark, Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline and Hilton Hotels Corporation.

Communispace was started in 1999, so her company has gone through the ups & downs of the economic roller coaster... fraud... product pivots... to the amazing success story they are today.  As always, Eric does a great job walking you through her journey starting with Diane's education and professional history before starting Communispace.

This is another inspirational story of someone who is passionate and committed to building a world class company.  There are lots of lessons to be learned from this interview, so definitely check out the video below... and please... pass it along / tweet it out to your network.  Boston needs to celebrate the great companies and entrepreneurs that are in our backyard and this is definitely one to watch!

Thanks again to Eric Paley for allowing us to publish this great event on VentureFizz!  We also want to thank... Tyler Magnin & Nathalie Bishop for their hard work on shooting and editing this great video.  Also - thanks to VisibleGains for their continued support as our online video platform partner (check out their interactive video marketing solution by clicking here). 

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