About Ted Murphy
The Skinny
Creative superfreak. Serial entrepreneur. Social media lover. Apple fan boy. Global traveler. Marathon runner. Likes to stick tongue out in pictures.
Disclosure
This is the personal blog of Ted Murphy. The thoughts and statements expressed here are my own. I am currently Founder/CEO at IZEA, Chairman of the Board at MindComet and Managing Partner at Kumukoa, LLC. I am in a relationship with Tara Lamberson, founder of Doterati. I may get compensated from time to time to provide feedback or reviews on this site. Assume that I have a financial or personal connection to everything that appears on this site. I own three pairs of pants. My favorite color is happiness. I can smell three times faster than the average man.
My Bio
A serial entrepreneur, Edward “Ted” Murphy has founded six companies since 1994. Murphy’s latest venture, IZEA operates a variety of social media properties including SocialSpark and PayPerPost, the world’s largest Consumer Generated Advertising Network. Founded in June of 2006, IZEA has raised over $10 million in venture funding from leading venture capitalists including Draper Fischer Jurvetson, Village Ventures and Inflexion.
Murphy’s creative prowess and passion for the unconventional has earned him the ear of some of the world’s largest marketing organizations including FOX, Bombardier, General Motors and Disney. His efforts have received national recognition, including A/V Multimedia Producer Magazine’s “Top 100 Multimedia Producers” for two consecutive years. In 2006 Murphy’s viral campaign created for the launch of PayPerPost was inducted into Marketing Sherpa’s Viral Marketing Hall of Fame. Murphy is a prominent visionary, speaking and presenting to marketing and Internet professionals around the world.
