Stephen H. Watkins is the Chairman and CEO of Entrex and co-founder of the Private Company Index. As an entrepreneur leading numerous ventures from conception through exit his growth capital raises forced him to regularly tread the inefficient and unstructured path private companies generally follow in the search for exposure and credibility to the capital markets and significant investment dollars.
New York Times best seller and international best selling author, Jeffrey J. Fox, is releasing his tenth book, Rain: What A Paperboy Learned About Business. Rain is destined to be a business book classic. And Rain, a thirteen-year old paperboy, the book’s central character, is destined to become business fiction’s first positive hero. Rain,a business fable, is Fox’s first foray into fiction. The story is a series of challenges and adventures that Rain solves in surprising and clever ways. Rain deals with mean dogs, bullies, customers that won’t pay, and growing his business and his paper route. Rain’s challenges are metaphors for the problems facing business managers everywhere.
Our guest on this segment is an expert presenter, writer, consultant and speaker on the topic of franchising. Joel Libava is the “Franchise Expert In Residence” and columnist for the award winning Small Business Trends website, and over at the OPEN FORUM by American Express blog, joining other small business experts like Guy Kawasaki, John Battelle, and Anita Campbell.Joel is also the franchise-expert source for The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, MSNBC.com, Bottom Line Personal and Crain’s.
My interview with Judith Fein and Paul Ross unpacks a very unusual and exciting small business—-that is, they are professional travel journalists!! In this up close look, you’ll learn how they created their business purely from their passion and experience, and how they’re now helping others learn to do the same.
Harry S. Dent says that the stimulus plan is doomed to fail and that by early to mid 2010 we will enter a deeper downturn or “great depression“almost regardless of what the government tries to do.
Andy Rogulich, owner and mastering engineer, has accrued more than 35 years of experience in mixing for House, Television, Live Radio Broadcasting, and Recording. Andy is a graduate of the Masterpiece School of Mastering, taught by Billy Stull of Masterpiece Mastering and Legendary Audio. This unique training further qualifies him to render the very best service to the discerning professional who wants superior results.