Apr 24, 2017
Eric Santos studied entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno. He started his first start-up Soshowise during his senior year in college. Soshowise won the award for ‘Best Integration of the PayPal API’ at HapiHack Hackathon (SF) in June 2011 along with some startup cash from PayPal. Eric continued his entrepreneurship journey and went on to co-found several startups including Dwibbles, WishBooklet, and Scheduly. Eric is currently the CEO of Benchmark Intelligence, a product suite that helps over 1,000 restaurant and retail chain locations understand why certain locations perform better than others.
When he is not running Benchmark Intelligence, Eric writes about entrepreneurship, career advice and dating for a number of publications including Business Insider, Yahoo Small Business Advisor, VentureBeat, AskMen.com, Elite Daily and many more.
Connect
Twitter – https://twitter.com/ericsantos89
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ericsantos89
Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericsantos89/
Email – eric [at] usebenchmark.com
Website – www.eric-santos.com
Company Website – http://usebenchmark.com/
People Mentioned
Elon Musk – https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Marc Benioff – https://twitter.com/Benioff
Resources
Close.io – https://close.io/
Slack – https://slack.com
Trello – https://trello.com/
Hunter – https://hunter.io/
Books
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki: https://goo.gl/0Sj3gj