Episode 273: Entrepreneurship DNA

Episode 273 originally broadcast on August 28, 2010

Is it genetic? Inspired? In the water? Our Featured Guest, Lisa Pounds, launched Green Plate Kids. Says she was inspired and encouraged by her father, our Flashback Guest, Fred Pounds. Different ideas, different execution, but the same innovative spirit.

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 BusinessMakers Quote of the Week—wise words from American humorist Will Rogers; This Week in Business History includes the first flying of the Stars & Stripes flag, the signing of Roosevelt’s tax against the wealthy, and the birthday of the late, great Michael Jackson; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak that YOU should know; and Dumbest Moments in Business History—California opens another Taj Mahal school.

Lisa Pounds - Green Plate Kids

When Lisa Pounds took time off work to raise her daughter, she realized how little she knew about children’s food and nutrition. The more she learned, the more frustrated she became with the food options available for busy parents. Green Plate Kids 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). Her company has only been in operation for a few months and she is already expanding, hiring another chef… and did we mention that GPK delivers?

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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. In this segment, Pounds talks about his core business and how it came to be.