Lynnette Claire

Lynnette Claire is and entrepreneur that likes to start companys. After graduating from University of California Davis in English, she worked for Horticulture Magazine. She decided not to move to Boston with Horticulture Magazine and move to Puget Sound area to work for Seafood Trade Magazine. Within six months she helped start the Simply Seafood Magazine. She later 'fell' into the business of association management and event planning. During this time she worked with small companies expand their networks. She helped co-found a tree care business and the 6th ave farmers market in Tacoma. After this Lynnette decided to go back to school to get her PHD in Entrepreneurship and then started teaching at University of Puget Sound, where she is still at today. While teaching she is also starting the Tacoma Entrepreneurship Network where her focus is on the economy through education and community of entrepreneurs in the local area. She works with the students and helps them with their ideas that they come up with for their own entrepreneurship, which one of them is the centsless.org social website for borrowing items from one another. She also discussed 'Networks 101' that inculuded two types of social networks, cohesive and structural holes networks. The cohesive network is great for quality of information and self-correction, while structural holes network is benefitted by new infromation.