Entrepreneurship DNA

School of Business 08/28/10

Russ and John present the show for the guys that make it all happen, the show that champions innovation and entrepreneurship. Includes the Quote of the Week, This Week in Business History, the Jargon Challenge Round and Dumbest Moments in Business History.

Lisa Pounds - Green Plate Kids

Lisa Pounds, daughter of our Flashback Guest Fred Pounds, was frustrated with the food options available for busy parents. Green Plate Kids offers packaged meals and snack foods that are free of unhealthy things.

• Making the Super Brownies

Flashback - Fred Pounds, ScreenTek Ltd.

Russ and John flash back to our 2006 interview with Fred Pounds, co-founder of ScreenTek Ltd. Father and son established this company based on an unfilled need, serving people with broken laptop computer monitors.

PKF Texas: The Entrepreneur’s Playbook® - The Value of Consultants

As a consultant, are you really adding value? Greg Price offers ways to evaluate your consultant, and yourself.

Taxes, Tickets & Drones

Katie and Esther are back with all the news you need to know. In the news this week: Philadelphia, Ticketmaster a missing Navy drone. And, we have a wonderful CEOs Say the Darndest Things. (“What if it’s just the first step to robots thinking on their own?!”)

Get Healthy!

Russ visits with the founder of Green Plate Kids, a catering company that offers packaged meals and snack foods that are free of bad things (like preservatives or corn syrup) and full of good things (like hidden vegetables). (“Spinach in your brownies?!”)

Seven Deadly Sins

Wow, we have so much good advice in this segment as Katie and Esther discuss the Seven Deadly Sins of Sales. (“Sales can be the person selling the company.”)