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Greg Bier – Director of the University of Missouri’s Entrepreneurship Alliance

[quote style=”boxed”]Plan. Plan. Plan. Don’t jump into anything without knowing as much as possible about what you are getting into and what you hope to achieve.[/quote] Greg Bier is an associate teaching professor and the director of the University of Missouri’s Entrepreneurship Alliance. The Entrepreneurship Alliance is one of many…

Meet Greg Bier – Director of the University of Missouri’s Entrepreneurship Alliance

Steve Davis – Co-Founder of CruiseWise

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]With an enormous canvas. I’m a visual thinker, so most of the things we discuss start on a whiteboard, a big table or an enormous sheet of paper.[/quote] Steve Davis is the COO & co-founder of CruiseWise, the web’s most advanced source of cruise knowledge. Cruises are America’s last…

Meet Steve Davis – Co-Founder of CruiseWise

Zach Haller – Founder and CEO of Found In Town

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]A lesson I learned from the Mario brothers: collect as many coins as you can as you head toward the finish line. Any stray knowledge or resources you can absorb as you address a challenge will only help you in the long run.[/quote] Zach Haller is the founder and…

Meet Zach Haller – Founder and CEO of Found In Town

Kevin O’Connor – CEO of FindTheBest.com

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]Create a vision people can believe in, inspire them to achieve more than what they believed possible, and lead from the front and not from the corner office.[/quote] Kevin O’Connor is the CEO of FindTheBest, an unbiased data driven comparison engine, which he established in Santa Barbara, California in…

Meet Kevin O’Connor – CEO of FindTheBest.com

Jean MacDonald – Partner at Smile

by Mario Schulzke

After leaving behind academia and her initial career goal as a professor of Russian history, Jean MacDonald worked for several years in the book publishing business in New York City. She then moved to Oregon to be closer to her family and worked at her sister’s startup, a children’s software…

Meet Jean MacDonald – Partner at Smile

Greg Scown – Co-Founder of Smile

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]I get up early and work until dinner. There is no typical day, and I love that. Some days I code. Others, I balance the bank accounts. Others, I try to track down a pesky bug. It’s different every day.[/quote] Greg Scown is co-founder of Smile. He grew up in…

Meet Greg Scown – Co-Founder of Smile

Philip Goward – Co-founder of Smile

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]Mostly I try to get through correspondence in the first hour of the workday, so the rest is available to focus on tasks that need a good deal of concentration and minimal interruption.[/quote] Philip Goward founded Smile with Greg Scown in 2003. Smile makes productivity software for the Mac, iPhone and…

Meet Philip Goward – Co-founder of Smile

Leslie Haywood – Inventor of Grill Charms

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]Press lends credibility to your business, but it does not necessarily equal sales. Oh sure, you get an initial boost, but there is no substitute for good ol’ fashion pounding the pavement. Making sales calls is where my money comes from, not from magazine articles.[/quote] Leslie Haywood is founder…

Meet Leslie Haywood – Inventor of Grill Charms

Chester Lockhart – Inventor of The Original Monkey Backpack Child Leash

by Mario Schulzke

[box]This interview was published on April 1. Hint Hint. [/box] Chester “Chet” Lockhart was born the first of 23 children in a community living compound just outside Provo, Utah. Spending much of his life amidst chaos that can only be described as Lord of the Flies-ish, Chet experimented with a…

Meet Chester Lockhart – Inventor of The Original Monkey Backpack Child Leash

Chris Chorba – Supporter of The Good Shepherd Shelter

by Mario Schulzke

[quote style=”boxed”]I have learned that there really are no shortcuts in life. There is simply no substitute for hard work.[/quote] Chris Chorba is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is a litigator who specializes in defending consumer class actions. Chris also serves…

Meet Chris Chorba – Supporter of The Good Shepherd Shelter