Cesar Ornelas was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and is the son of Cesar and Belia Ornelas. In Mr. Ornelas’s early years, he was raised in a mobile home park in Kyle, Texas. It was during this time that Cesar Ornelas and his father would go around selling watermelons in…
Tyrone Nix is an American football coach. He was born in Alabama, where football is almost a religion, to a football-loving family. Nix was groomed by his legendary Alabama high school football coach to take over his program upon his graduation from college, but Nix’s success at college proved he…
Kenzi Wood is an experienced freelance writer who partners with marketing agencies. In her past life as a marketer, she specialized in SEO, PPC, and content marketing. She’s a Google Ads Certified Professional. Where did the idea for Kenzi Writes come from? I created Kenzi Writes by accident, actually. I…
Ask more questions before resolving issues. At the tail end of a recession Jeffrey S. Dallenbach, AIA graduated from Texas A&M University. Jeff dove into the development industry while earning pennies rather than dollars but truly solidified his knowledge of architecture and the built environment while working with the…
Bootstrapping can force you to come up with solutions to business problems without assuming more cash, equity or debt, will fix a business problem, which it rarely does. Bethany Babcock was raised oversees in Chile and moved to the United States alone at age eighteen. Her first job landed…
Always, always, always be testing. There’s a common trend with entrepreneurs — they have an idea and just GO for it without validating that idea first…Failing to test an idea — no matter what it’s for — is the easiest way to risk failure. Gaby Roman is the founder of…
When I have an idea, I try not to sit on it. Instead I go with it, and I work fast and furious to make it happen. Rudy Ruiz is a writer, advocate, and social entrepreneur. Interlex, the social advocacy advertising and marketing agency, celebrates its 20th year of multicultural…
I make the phone call, send the email, open the document. There’s no secret sauce here. An idea is just a set of action items waiting to be executed. So make the list and start executing. Zach grew up in Northwest Arkansas and was by all accounts destined for corporate…
Carlos Vazquez served 7 years in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserves, including two deployments to Iraq. He’s a graduate from the University of Texas at San Antonio and has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He has always been interested in how people interact with technology in their…
