Episode 260: Entrepreneurial Support and Targeted Advice

Episode 260 originally broadcast on May 29, 2010

We have high-powered advice from over-the-top innovators. Our Featured Guests this week are Caroline Cummings of Palo Alto Software and Julia Rhodes of KleenSlate Concepts. Then, flash back for another BusinessMakers favorite: Advice FOR entrepreneurs FROM entrepreneurs.

School of Business 05/29/10

Russ and John present Show #260—that’s a LOT of love and support for the entrepreneurs who make our economy work. Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Day—timeless words from American physicist Richard Feynman; This Week in Business History includes such radical personalities as Lady Godiva, Thomas Edison and Dr. John Kellogg, and Aretha Franklin gets “Respect;” the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak you should know; and Dumbest Moments in Business History—Heinz Ketchup wants to get healthy.

Caroline Cummings - Palo Alto Software

Russ interviews Caroline Cummings, Director of Entrepreneur Advocacy for Palo Alto Software in Oregon. Palo Alto developed and markets business plan, marketing plan and email (“software as service”) software applications. Cummings explains that Palo Alto applications force users to think more strategically, more proactively and in more detail about their future plans. She offers great commentary and advice for startups.

Julia Rhodes - KleenSlate Concepts

Julia Rhodes, a classroom teacher turned entrepreneur, was unable to find the kind of eraser she needed for the dry erase boards in her classroom, so she developed it herself. Then she patented, manufactured and marketed it too. Today, she runs a growing company that develops products for the education and office supply industries.

Advice FOR Entrepreneurs FROM Entrepreneurs

Russ presents another BusinessMakers favorite: some of our very best advice from highly successful entrepreneurs. We offer words of wisdom from startup guru, author and entrepreneur extraordinaire Guy Kawasaki; Harvard teacher and researcher Shawn Achor; and Gay Gaddis, founder of creative think tank T3, the largest woman-owned advertising agency in the nation.