{"id":197,"date":"2011-07-19T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=197"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:30:37","slug":"inventing-a-self-made-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/inventing-a-self-made-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventing a self-made career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Ashleigh David Sottile &#8217;03 and her father, Paul Davis, launched theproduct<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sottile_240x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sottile_240x240.jpg\" alt=\"Robyn Ashleigh Davis Sottile &#039;03\" title=\"Robyn Ashleigh Davis Sottile &#039;03\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sottile_240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sottile_240x240-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>network.com \u2014 a site dedicated to inventors in the test phase of marketing their products. Following a successful career as a producer with the Home Shopping Network and the birth of two sons, Sottile decided she was ready for a self-made career. In an interview with the <em>Gazette Virginian<\/em> (Halifax, Va., 3\/2\/11), Sottile&#8217;s father said, &#8220;This is when she realized that more than just a baby had been born, but a new-found desire to take her experiences and love for the shopping channel industry and help inventors.&#8221; In collaboration with her father, who recently finalized his own invention, a refrigerator magnet and organizer, and through a partnership with ION Networks, the pair conceptualized the site, which inventors use to test market their products. TPN also airs a cable show on ION Networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to inventors in the test phase of marketing their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumnae_connections","tag-spring-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}