Tac Anderson
I have often been described with the following words: Contrarian, Enigma, Change Agent, Non-Traditional, Thought Leader and Entrepreneur to list a few of the polite ones. Honestly I just think of myself as an ADHD, GenXer with a ravenous thirst for information and a healthy addiction to the Internet.
I received my BA in Communications from Boise State University in ‘97 where I studied, what was then called, Computer Mediated Communications. I later received my MBA from Boise State in ‘08.
I have been a serial entrepreneur in the most diverse definition of the term. Among other things, I was a mountain bike tour guide, owned a skateboard shop in Las Vegas, was a partner at a, now dead-pooled, small marketing agency in Boise, started a DOA Web business and have been a marketing consultant.
I founded the TechBoise blog in 2007 and built one heck of a tech community in Boise over the next several years. I was also a founding member of both Boise’s downtown incubator, TheWaterCooler, and IgniteBoise.
All of this involvement in Boise’s startup tech scene lead me to have the opportunity to serve as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence, focused on social media, for Highway 12 Ventures form 2008-2009. From 2007-2009 I worked atHewlett-Packard where I managed both internal and external social media initiatives. I am currently at Waggener Edstrom in the Studio D group as their VP of Digital Strategies.
I currently live in the Seattle area and have managed to stay happily married to my eternally patient wife Jen who does most of the heavy lifting with our 3 children.
My other blogs:
New Comm Biz
/tacanderson
