Episode 300: Wine with a Twist!

Episode 300 originally broadcast on March 05, 2011

It’s our 300th episode and we’ve got a great entrepreneur to help us celebrate. Jerry Lasco is opening his third family-run wine bar, The Tasting Room in Houston’s fabulous CityCentre. We’ll be partying, networking and presenting our BusinessMaker of the Year Award on Thursday, March 10 at The Tasting Room in CityCentre. (You should join us!)

School of Business 03/05/11

Russ and John present the show about people that make businesses and make business happen: the entrepreneurs and the innovators. It’s our 300th episode! Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Week—a playful truth from Warren Beatty; This Week in Business History includes entrepreneurial innovations, among them the New York Stock Exchange, the Monopoly game, and PC DOS 2.0; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak that YOU should know; and Dumb Moments in Business History—Moammar Gadhafi may have created his own “dumb moment.”

Jerry Lasco - The Tasting Room

Jerry Lasco’s first wine bar effort, The Tasting Room in Uptown Park, has been a wild success. His Max’s Wine Dive is a trendy Houston hot spot and subsequent locations are doing well. Now he’s about to launch another Tasting Room, “a flagship location” in the fabulous new CityCentre. And all it took was a solid concept, years of hard work, and several buckets of passion. Russ interviews a furloughed Continental Airlines pilot who followed his heart. It’s a great story.