Episode 256: Looking Out For the Small Businesses

Episode 256 originally broadcast on May 01, 2010

Chuck Ashman returns to The BusinessMakers for another great interview. Ashman, CEO of Business Matchmaking, facilitates buyer/seller meetings, workshops and training materials for small businesses nationwide. Then flash back to our 2006 interview with Hector Barreto, former National Administrator of the SBA and author of The Engine of America: Secrets from Entrepreneurs Who Made It. An inspiring show!

School of Business 05/01/10

Russ and John present the show that features those who most positively affect our lives, the drivers of our economy: the innovators and the entrepreneurs. Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Day—FedEx founder Fred Smith’s college professor, commenting about Smith’s proposal for FedEx; This Week in Business History includes the sale of Manhattan for cloth and buttons, the election of Winston Churchill and a boat named Monkey Business; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak you should know; and Dumbest Moments in Business History—a cleric reveals the cause of earthquakes.

Speed-dating for Small Business

Chuck Ashman returns to The BusinessMakers for another great interview. (If you missed his session during the summer of 2006, DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!) Ashman, CEO of Business Matchmaking, facilitates buyer/seller meetings, workshops and training materials for businesses nationwide. This man is a HERO among the small business industry and is a font of helpful information. In his words, “The Pentagon buys toilet paper and someone’s got to sell it to them!”

Flashback - Hector Barreto, Serious Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship is admittedly an all-consuming condition, but for Hector Barreto, it really is part of his DNA Russ talks with the former National Administrator of the Small Business Administration and author of The Engine of America: Secrets from Entrepreneurs Who Made It. He was running an organization in California called the Latin Business Association when he was called to Washington. In this segment, Barreto remembers his tenure with the SBA and about the people he interviewed for his book.

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