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Episode 180: Featured Guest—Bennett Greenspan, FamilyTreeDNA.com
Entrepreneur and genealogy buff Bennett Greenspan has turned a hobby into a career. In years past, genealogists were grave stompers, searching for ancestral information on tombstones and in cemetery histories. DNA technology has changed all that. Greenspan founded his company in April of 2000 and, today, has an incredible 220,000 DNA records in its database.
Original Broadcast: Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Episode 179: Featured Guest— Dan Steppee, University of Houston Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship
The BusinessMakers broadcast from the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, a program of the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. WCE is being honored by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review as the No. 1 ranked school of entrepreneurship in the nation. Russ interviews Dan Steppe, director of the program since 2004.
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Original Broadcast: Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Episode 177: Featured Guest - Leonard Schlesinger, Babson College
Russ is near Boston to visit with the newly-inaugurated president of Babson College. Babson has an internationally recognized entrepreneurial management education school, and Dr Schlesinger brings an impressive expertise to the program. Schlesinger believes the entrepreneurs of the world are the key to solving the world’s greatest problems, that Babson’s graduates must be prepared to attack the ideological and global issues of the life sciences, economy and technology.
Original Broadcast: Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Episode 177: Featured Guest - Jessica Arredondo, TRUEJEANS.com
The BusinessMakers interview a Babson alumna and entrepreneur who could be altering the online apparel industry. Arredondo has developed a technology that takes the guesswork out of shopping for jeans. In this segment, she discusses fundraising efforts and expresses a long-term vision for her company.
Original Broadcast: Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Episode 177: Featured Guest - Rush Hambleton, Canditto.com
The BusinessMakers interview a Babson College alumnus, a young entrepreneur who has patented a device that copies digital photo files from multiple sources onto a single media. Hambleton explains his business and marketing plan and the next steps for building his company.
Original Broadcast: Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
