"Peter Shankman", born New York City, is an American entrepreneur, marketer, investor, blogger, and "adventurist." Shankman studied at Boston University.

He is the co-founder of [http://www.shankmanhonig.com/ Shankman/Honig], a customer service consultancy focused on social media marketing. Previously, he was the creator of the Help a Reporter Out ("HARO") project, and a PR firm called [http://www.geekfactory.com/ The Geek Factory]. He is the author of three books on marketing and social media, and the long-running blog [http://shankman.com/ Shankman.com].

He has been a guest speaker at TedX, South by Southwest, and many other conferences.

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If you can figure out how to save your life at 120 miles an hour, trying to get funding for a new company really becomes easy.

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You can meet someone on your flight and just be friendly with them. You don't have to date them, you don't have to marry them. You just be friendly for those three hours on the plane.

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