Innovate State: What's in a Love Story?

651 N. Shaw Ln,East Lansing MI 48824

15 November, 2022

Description

The Innovate State Speaker Series brings both emerging and accomplished Spartans back to campus for a fireside chat-style interview. These 60-minute sessions offer the chance for guests to share their perspectives on a wide array of topics like innovation, startup life, investments, and career paths. Students get the opportunity to hear firsthand about the hard knocks of the entrepreneurship & innovation hustle to maintaining work/life balance. These are stories of success, stories of failures, and stories of uncommon will—and you do not want to miss them. Innovate State kicks-off at 6 p.m. ET in the Larry & Teresa Gaynor Entrepreneurship Lab (651 N. Shaw Ln., M025 Business Pavilion, East Lansing, MI 48824) and are free to the community. Events will be offered in-person only but are available virtually on the Friday following the event at eship.msu.edu/innovate-state/. Early registration is highly encouraged.  About our Speaker & Theme Rachel Silver, Founder & CEO, Love Stories TV Rachel is the founder and CEO of Love Stories TV: a global media brand which provides entertainment and wedding inspiration through uplifting, high quality, and emotional video content. As the only video platform in a $300 billion industry, Love Stories TV reaches 40M+ monthly viewers through their website, social, and streaming TV channel. Love Stories TV has the industry's only streaming TV and Snap Discover channels, largest YouTube and TikTok channels, as well as deeply engaged audiences on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and more. On lovestoriestv.com the company has a library of 26,000+ professionally produced real wedding videos contributed by videographers from all over the world. Each video is tagged with the wedding data and details which populates into a marketplace of 56,000+ wedding pros that couples use to browse, discover, and contact professionals for their wedding. Rachel's background is in building communities and creating content that help audiences make purchase decisions. Before founding Love Stories TV she ran Social Marketing at Content Strategy at Birchbox. Rachel is a recognized expert on social media, video, and influencer marketing and regularly shares her expertise via speaking engagements for organizations like Digiday, Dash Hudson, B&H Photo, WPPI, and more. She regularly contributes insights on the wedding industry and marketing strategies with outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Business Of Fashion, and The New York Times. She received her B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University and her M.A. from The American University of Paris. She lives in New York City with her husband and son. Location Larry & Teresa Gaynor Entrepreneurship Lab (651 N. Shaw Ln., M025 Business Pavilion, East Lansing, MI 48824) To access more information about Innovate State or the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, please visit eship.msu.edu. For any further questions, please email Aubrey Haase, [email protected].