July 2007 Archives

The School of Business for July 28, 2007

Interviewer: Russ Capper, John Beddow | Guest: The BusinessMakers | Episode: 112 | Date: July 28, 2007

Quote of the Week, This Week in Business History, The PKF Entrepreneur's Playbook, Navigating Business Jargon, and Dumbest Moments.

Flashback - Catherine Rohr

Interviewer: Russ Capper | Guest: Catherine Rohr | Episode: 112 | Date: July 28, 2007

Flashback to Russ' visit with Catherine Rohr, founder of The Prison Entrepreneurship Program, for selling night at the Hamilton Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Catherine explains the need to transition the inmates from street entrepreneurs to executives of legitimate ventures. Hear from several PEP students on their passion and how much this program means to them.

Richard Loomis of World Energy

Interviewer: Russ Capper | Guest: Richard Loomis | Episode: 112 | Date: July 28, 2007

Today Russ visits with Richard Loomis, the president, CEO and founder of World Energy, a media platform for the executives within the energy industry. World Energy publishes a quarterly magazine written by the CEOs, a monthly publication, and has a television broadcast which gives them a place to talk about an issue they all have in common, "how do we power the planet?"

PKF Texas: The Entrepreneur’s Playbook® - C-Corporation 1

Interviewer: Greg Price | Guest: Greg Price | Episode: 112 | Date: July 28, 2007

For this week's tip, Greg Price explains C Corporations and their benefits.

WebXtra - Richard Loomis

Interviewer: Russ Capper | Guest: Richard Loomis | Episode: 112 | Date: July 28, 2007

Russ and Richard Loomis resume their discussion about countries that are nationalizing their oil reserves, using natural gas as a policy maker, and how much control we don't have over the oil we rely on.

The School of Business for July 21, 2007

Interviewer: Russ Capper, John Beddow | Guest: The BusinessMakers | Episode: 111 | Date: July 21, 2007

Quote of the Week, This Week in Business History, The PKF Entrepreneur's Playbook, Navigating Business Jargon, and Dumbest Moments.

Flashback - Idea Triggers

Interviewer: Russ Capper | Guest: Bill Groux, Lawrence Kersten, Catherine Rohr | Episode: 111 | Date: July 21, 2007

This week we have a Flashback theme with 3 different entrepreneurs giving us their business idea triggers. First we hear Bill Groux tell us how his young daughter inspired his idea to teach English to Hispanic restaurant workers. Second is Lawrence Kersten of Despair, Inc. and his million dollar business idea of making fun of the motivational industry. Last is Catherine Rohr's story of a prison tour that inspired her to better our prison population's chances on the outside.

Alex Khachatryan of Reasoning Mind, Inc.

Interviewer: Russ Capper | Guest: Alex Khachatryan | Episode: 111 | Date: July 21, 2007

Alex Khachatryan, Founder, President, and CEO of Reasoning Mind, Inc., talks with Russ about his unique, non-profit company's innovative approach to teaching math and science for grades K-12. His teaching system of computer labs, where each student has his or her own unique login, tracks and analyzes a student's progress. This in turn creates a unique path customized to that particular student's way of learning. The teacher is then able to better assist the students with more one on one interaction even in a large class environment.

The School of Business for July 14, 2007

Interviewer: Russ Capper, John Beddow | Guest: The BusinessMakers | Episode: 110 | Date: July 14, 2007

This week we start off with a quote from Jonathan Winters about swimming for it. Our History lesson consists of President Richard Nixon announcing his trip to China this week in 1971, the US and the Soviet Union meet in outer space this week in 1975, and parking meters debuted this week in 1935. Our vocabulary lesson has us pondering "ambimoustrous." Lastly, John tells us a story about the BBC trying to reach Bob Marley via email.

Flashback - Chris Bernard

Interviewer: Erica O'Grady | Guest: Chris Bernard | Episode: 110 | Date: July 14, 2007

Today we Flashback (only 1 week) to Erica O'Grady's interview with Chris Bernard, Microsoft's first ever experienced End User Evangelist. Chris explains that his main role is as an evangelist for design, both internally and externally, while at the same time being an advocate for the design profession. They discuss feedback from community after the redesign of Office 2007 and the evolution and simplification of Windows.

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