Contributor

Alisa Marie Beyer

Welcome to the raw & real world of entrepreneurship, the tears & tantrums, struggles & stress, success & failures

I started my first business at 29 and since that time, I’ve built and sold five companies. Today, I’m the Founder of LemonTree Partners. Each venture I have started has been a wild ride of tears and tantrums, struggles and stress, success and failures, lasting friendships and memories. Most people I’ve worked with say I have a talent for figuring out what needs done and then convincing people to jump off of a cliff with me to do it. They also say I tend to talk too much and I’m basically useless on Mondays, especially before 9 AM. My grandmother taught me the value of a good martini and a love of daytime soap operas. My Mom and Dad taught me everything else. More than once, I have read something that gave me clarity, made me laugh, made me feel like my experiences were pretty normal – or that I was indeed not going crazy, which is always a nice validation. I hope my experiences will equally inspire you. I’m no Anna Quindlen, but I’ll give it a go.