{"id":208506,"date":"2019-09-05T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/?page_id=208506"},"modified":"2019-09-09T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:33:38","slug":"jessica-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/jessica-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Gonzalez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CEO | InCharged<\/h2>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fifth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-1.12.27-PM.png\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-1.12.27-PM.png.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Gonzalez\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column four-fifths\">I\u2019m an entrepreneur with a knack for bootstrapping. 10 years ago, I moved back into my parents\u2019 home and started working three jobs so I could start my company, InCharged. While retaining 100% ownership, operating without debt, and using no external funding, we\u2019ve operated with positive cash flow since day one.\n<p>It hasn\u2019t been easy, but it was my dream to create opportunities for marketers to reach their audience in new and innovative ways.<\/p>\n<p>From <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.sidekickopen05.com\/s1t\/c\/5\/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX45wLPRTW64kmQ07dKZ7jW8qC87H56dQnZf3fmP4802?t=https%3A%2F%2Fincharged.com%2F&amp;si=4972856193056768&amp;pi=151eacd1-ee6c-42db-e364-0db289ff890b\" target=\"_blank\">phone charging stations<\/a> to <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.sidekickopen05.com\/s1t\/c\/5\/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX45wLPRTW64kmQ07dKZ7jW8qC87H56dQnZf3fmP4802?t=https%3A%2F%2Fincharged.com%2F&amp;si=4972856193056768&amp;pi=151eacd1-ee6c-42db-e364-0db289ff890b\" target=\"_blank\">photo booths<\/a> to our <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.sidekickopen05.com\/s1t\/c\/5\/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX45wLPRTW64kmQ07dKZ7jW8qC87H56dQnZf3fmP4802?t=https%3A%2F%2Fincharged.com%2F&amp;si=4972856193056768&amp;pi=151eacd1-ee6c-42db-e364-0db289ff890b\" target=\"_blank\">new experiential vending machines<\/a> VendX, our InCharged products are everything I think event tech should be: reliable, effective, and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Just as importantly, InCharged treats our customers the way I think people should be treated: with <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.sidekickopen05.com\/s1t\/c\/5\/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XX45wLPRTW64kmQ07dKZ7jW8qC87H56dQnZf3fmP4802?t=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Ftheyec%2F2018%2F12%2F28%2Fwhatever-it-takes-four-customer-service-goals-to-keep-your-customers-happy%2F&amp;si=4972856193056768&amp;pi=151eacd1-ee6c-42db-e364-0db289ff890b\" target=\"_blank\">honesty<\/a>, integrity, and&#8230;you guessed it, fun. Companies are made up of real people, so we should act like it.<\/p>\n<p>As a woman and a minority in the the business landscape, my perspective is at the very least different than the status quo has been. I see this as an opportunity to do business differently, to approach what\u2019s become normal with freshness and innovation. #$%@ business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>I truly believe all ships rise with the tide, and it\u2019s nearly always better to discover opportunities to collaborate rather than compete. Homogeny is boring. The future is diverse and cooperative, and I want to help build it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO | InCharged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":208618,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208506","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208507,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208506\/revisions\/208507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}