My first\u00a0business failed.\u00a0 In 2nd grade\u00a0I\u00a0was nearly suspended for operating a business on school property. \u00a0Worse,\u00a0I\u00a0lost my entire\u00a0initial investment! ($10.00) \u00a0While ten bucks\u00a0doesn\u2019t sound like a lot of money to lose\u00a0on a business venture, it\u2019s a lot of money to an 8-year old!<\/p>\n
I\u00a0got into graphic design and web development in 1999 and launched\u00a0my\u00a0first website for a paying client in 2000. After a brief detour\u00a0at Colorado State University where I got a B.S. in\u00a0Psychology, I\u00a0returned to web development\u00a0professionally and started developing sites\u00a0on WordPress in 2008 (v2.3.1 for the nerds).<\/p>\n
I founded Copper Leaf Creative in 2011. \u00a0My vision is to create a small, elite, agile-minded team that can make profound impacts on our clients\u2019 businesses. \u00a0I\u2019d say \u201cso far so good!\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2017, Leah and I\u00a0founded\u00a0woobetter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My first\u00a0business failed.\u00a0 In 2nd grade\u00a0I\u00a0was nearly suspended for operating a business on school property. \u00a0Worse,\u00a0I\u00a0lost my entire\u00a0initial investment! ($10.00) \u00a0While ten bucks\u00a0doesn\u2019t sound like a lot of money to lose\u00a0on a business venture, it\u2019s a lot of money to an 8-year old! I\u00a0got into graphic design and web development in 1999 and launched\u00a0my\u00a0first website … Continue reading “Gordon Seirup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15410176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[3552],"class_list":["post-1320","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry","wcb_speaker_group-workshops"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheO8c-li","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2eb21425a27886141b28bc4d73fffd5bc28193aab0c68ac0e40fe250dc86ee69?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2eb21425a27886141b28bc4d73fffd5bc28193aab0c68ac0e40fe250dc86ee69?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2eb21425a27886141b28bc4d73fffd5bc28193aab0c68ac0e40fe250dc86ee69?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2eb21425a27886141b28bc4d73fffd5bc28193aab0c68ac0e40fe250dc86ee69?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2eb21425a27886141b28bc4d73fffd5bc28193aab0c68ac0e40fe250dc86ee69?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2eb21425a27886141b28bc4d73fffd5bc28193aab0c68ac0e40fe250dc86ee69?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15410176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1320\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denver.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}