{"id":799,"date":"2007-06-26T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/06\/26\/a-local-entrepreneur-success-story\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T02:57:37","slug":"a-local-entrepreneur-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/a-local-entrepreneur-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A local entrepreneur success story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Journal had <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukee.bizjournals.com\/milwaukee\/stories\/2007\/06\/25\/story4.html\">a great feature on Kelly and Jeff Fitzsimmons<\/a>. Kelly is a well-known Milwaukee entrepreneur, and this venture seems a bit of a change from computer security.  Their idea is an &#8220;American Idol&#8221; type of website for joke-telling. The site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicwonder.com\">Comic Wonder<\/a>, and their money-making proposition revolves around selling advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Users of Comic Wonder record audio of jokes, and other users vote for the best jokes and best joke-tellers. The site will feature a variety of weekly and monthly contests.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was the founder of Sun Tzu Security, which was eventually sold to Neohapsis in Chicago. She was the CEO of Neohapsis for a few years, and sold her equity in the company in October. Jeff&#8217;s background involves writing books and writing for television shows. His book, &#8220;The Art of the Bonsai Potato&#8221; has sold over 200,000 copies.<\/p>\n<p>Comic Wonder is Jeff&#8217;s idea, dating back to 2000. The site has been developed under Jeff and Kelly&#8217;s company, Area 444, and more online products are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and Jeff invested $250,000 of their own money to get this site off the ground, and have been working it full-time since December. The site had its official roll-out late last week. <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+l+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/comic+wonder\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Journal had a great feature on Kelly and Jeff Fitzsimmons. Kelly is a well-known Milwaukee entrepreneur, and this venture seems a bit of a change from computer security. Their idea is an &#8220;American Idol&#8221; type of website for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}