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<\/a>Ryan Dunagan ('08)<\/p><\/div>\n
1. Tell us about your company. What do you do?<\/strong> I graduated a year before Garrett and went into the commercial real estate industry. I enjoyed it but working on web projects was more of my true passion. A year later, once Garrett graduated we decided to make GANDR a full-time thing. So I quit my job and we started GANDR. We got an office in downtown Abilene, hired a few interns and a designer and began work.<\/p>\n 3. What class, project or professor helped prepare you the most for your journey?<\/strong> 4. What\u2019s one piece of advice you\u2019d share with future and current business students at ACU?<\/strong> Note: In 2011 GANDR became a part-time venture. Garrett was offered a great opportunity as a developer for a company in Nottingham England and I was offered a job as a Marketing Manager for a startup in Austin<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nGANDR Web – a web design and online marketing agency. I handle all of the internal marketing efforts and project management as well as research and user experience work for our clients.
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\n2. In a few brief paragraphs, how\u2019d you get started?<\/strong>
\nWhile roommates in college, Garrett Winder and I decided we wanted to work in the web industry. He learned how to develop and I learned the marketing and project management strategies involved in the web. The more we spent time learning it the more we enjoyed it. Our work started off small but projects started getting bigger and our small side gig became more real.<\/p>\n
\nI would probably say the entrepreneurship class along with my marketing classes. It helped me to recognize some of the characteristics of an entrepreneur in myself. The marketing classes were beneficial in learning how to strategically put together a plan to grow a business.<\/p>\n
\nBe proactive with your career. It’s hard to achieve anything if you’re sitting on the sidelines.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2011\/03\/Picture-4-300x69.png\" "\\"GANDR")
<\/a>For more information about GANDR Web Design, visit http:\/\/gandrweb.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n