Love and learn from your customers, your team, and your products. Before joining Market Traders Institute as VP of Managed Accounts in 2004, Jacob Martinez was already putting his leadership skills to the test. As a military intelligence leader in the U.S. Army, he was quickly promoted to sergeant…
Starting an online, app-based business where service providers are matched with buyers is a great idea in today’s economy. Cyrus Baseghi is the President of OSSI and an Oakland-based businessman. As the leader of a forward-thinking brand, he has done everything from basic application and internet development to complex…
Rebounding from failure is the key to success. Born in Newark New Jersey, Joel Shapiro graduated with honors from Rutgers University, and then received his MBA from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management. Before producing feature films, Joel was a very successful Investment Banker and Financier, and was one…
Ideas are easy. The implementation is what is challenging. Ideas come from all different sources, from customers and employees, and we embrace that. The challenge is in luck and timing. As a worldwide leader in the distribution of medical aesthetic devices, Scott Patrick Carson has set the bar for…
Don’t wait for the future, build and mold it into what you want it to be. Benedetto Salanitro is the Cofounder of 8pay. Which he runs alongside his business partner Alessandro Bellardita. With only a computer and 15€ 8Pay began advertising on Facebook fan pages, quickly earning one of…
It’s okay to change. Whatever product you have, whatever idea you have; I think there’s always time to change and to make it better. If it doesn’t get better, you can always redo it. It’s never too late to start over. Jodi Latson grew up in Denver, Colorado. In…
You have to have a very diverse inventory so that you can attract the broadest possible audience. If you don’t have what a customer wants, try to find it! Michael Wiener is a world-renowned expert in the field of automobile license plates and motor vehicle licensing systems. He is…
To stay productive, do the one thing that has to get done today. Then, if everything else doesn’t get done, at least you’ve accomplished the most important thing Christine is a six-time founder and CEO, an author, yogi, purposeful teacher and speaker, a mom of four, and a grandmother….
Always do more than what’s expected by your customers. That’s how people spread the word about you and your business. Scott has lived in the Washington, DC area for most of his life, growing up in Northern Virginia. He graduated from The College of William and Mary, and started…
The most important thing for any business to grow and to be successful is to know the numbers. Henry Vinson MS, JD, is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer for the State of Ohio. He began his career earning his bachelor’s degree from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Sciences….