Episode 291: Support for Entrepreneurs

Episode 291 originally broadcast on January 01, 2011

Classroom teacher Kim Bellini knew the effects and struggles resulting from learning disabilities. A LearningRx franchise allowed her to do something about it. We’ll visit with Microsoft executive and BusinessMakers favorite Jennifer Heard and with serial entrepreneur and author Scott Gerber. It’s a great show!

School of Business 01/01/11

Russ and John present the show about the working class, the private sector, the entrepreneurs who make our economy grow. Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Week—a humorous truism from billionaire Warren Buffett; This Week in Business History includes the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci’s Flying Machine, Davy Crockett’s arrival at the Alamo, and Jesse Ventura’s becoming governor of Minnesota; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak that YOU should know; and Dumbest Moments in Business History—we should all work at Lincoln Center.

Kim Bellini - LearningRx

As a classroom teacher, Kim Bellini knew the effects and struggles resulting from learning disabilities. When she discovered the LearningRx franchise, she jumped at the opportunity to start her own training business. LearningRx works one-on-one with children, teens and adults to improve their underlying cognitive skill weaknesses. It’s brain training, she says, and it treats the cause of the learning problem, not just the symptom. After three years of running her own business, Kim believes she truly is making a difference for her clients.

Jennifer Heard - Microsoft

BusinessMakers favorite Jennifer Heard is back with more new Microsoft products. Today’s topic: tools for working moms. Jennifer utilizes Microsoft technology to run her daughter’s classroom volunteers via a website she created that integrates with her own work website.

Scott Gerber - Entrepreneur & Author

Scott Gerber is a serial entrepreneur, the founder of Sizzle It, founder of startup incubator Gerber Enterprises, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council and now, author of Never Get a Real Job, an entrepreneur’s handbook. Russ interviews a speaker and syndicated columnist who talks up his response to youth unemployment and underemployment.

PKF Texas: The Entrepreneur’s Playbook® - 2010 Small Business Jobs Act 2

Are you current on the tax changes in the General Business Credits? You should be! Greg Price has more details of the 2010 Small Business Jobs Act that YOU need to know.