Podcasts about entrepreneurship hall

The Upreneur podcast has partnered up with SCORE, hosted by Jeremy Straub, to help bring engaging conversations with today’s top leaders and business owners. On today’s episode, we sat down with David McKinnon to get his insight on how being a franchisee is a safe business investment, how one weekend changed his life forever, and how finding the right business partner can help you succeed. David McKinnon, is currently the Chairman for NextGen Franchising, TriniD Capital, and TriniD Ventures. He is also a founding partner for Premier Franchise Advisors. McKinnon began his franchising career in 1982 when he and a partner purchased a ServiceMaster franchise in Toronto, Canada. He is the former CEO and Co-Founder of Service Brands International. Together they built the largest commercial carpet cleaning franchise in North America. In 1984, McKinnon acquired the rights to Molly Maid, then a start-up residential cleaning franchise in Canada. McKinnon relocated and established the corporate headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Today, Molly Maid has grown to more than 800 franchises in the U.S., Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, and Portugal. In the late 1990s, David recognized that other segments of the home service business were highly fragmented, and homeowners were both time-starved and unwilling or unable to maintain their homes without outside help. After exploring additional home services, Service Brands International (SBI) was created in 2001 as an umbrella organization. SBI grew to include Molly Maid; 1-800-DryClean, a pick-up, and delivery dry clean business; Mr. Handyman International, America's No. 1 professional handyman service business and ProTect Painters, an expert residential and commercial painting business. Alumni SBI brands include Ductz International and CRDN (Certified Restoration Dry Cleaning Network), which were divested. In 2007, McKinnon and his partners acquired a major stake in PuroClean, a Florida-based franchisor of restoration services with over 200 franchisees, serving both the insurance industry and homeownersAlong the way, McKinnon has been personally recognized for many outstanding achievements, which include: The Blue Chip Enterprise Award in 1995, Crain's Detroit Business "Top 40 Under 40" entrepreneurs in the state of Michigan in 1995, Co-Founder of The Ms. Molly Foundation, and The International Franchise Association's prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and in 2013 he was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.Website: http://www.mollymaid.com/ http://www.mrhandyman.com/local-handyman-service/mo/st-louis-west-county.aspx http://www.protectpainters.com/ http://www.1-800-dryclean.com/http://trinid.com/trinid-capital/https://trinid.com/trinid-ventures/http://nextgenfranchising.org/http://www.premierfranchiseadvisors.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mckinnon-0990518/Thank you for listening, and don’t forget to share, rate, and subscribe!If you enjoyed today's episode and want to stay up to date with new upcoming episodes, subscribe to our podcast. Please rate and comment on what your favorite moments from the podcast were, or who you would like for us to how on our show. If you found value from these podcasts, consider sharing this with your friend and family! You can also follow us on our social media. Instagram: @u_preneur

Imagine if young people in low-income communities were taught about money and small business? Today’s guest has done exactly that. Steve Mariotti is a prominent advocate for entrepreneurship education worldwide. He currently serves as Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship at Rising Tide Capital in Jersey City. He is the founder and former president of the global nonprofit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and the author of 44 books, textbooks, and articles exploring the transformative power of entrepreneurship for low-income communities. In his riveting personal memoir of his early career as a New York City public high school teacher, Goodbye Homeboy: How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement, Steve Mariotti shares the touching story of how he discovered that teaching even the most disenfranchised and disillusioned children about small business lights a fire for learning in them and transforms their futures. This experience inspired him to found NFTE to empower at-risk youth to create pathways out of poverty.   Steve founded NFTE on his public high school teacher's salary in 1987. He led teams that raised more than $150 million for NFTE's mission over 26 years, building NFTE into the leading global provider of entrepreneurship education for low-income youth from Chicago to China. Today, NFTE operates in 23 locations in 10 countries and has served nearly one million young people.  Steve soon discovered there were no textbooks available for teaching entrepreneurship to young people, so he wrote groundbreaking textbooks, including the Golden Lamp Award-winning high-school textbook Entrepreneurship: Starting and Operating a Small Business, and the junior college textbook Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. Steve is also the author of the popular Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting and Running a Business.  Approximately 1.2 million copies of Steve's books, textbooks and workbooks have been sold or donated worldwide, including to prison educational programs like ITEM (Inmates Teaching Entrepreneurship and Mentoring), which Steve co-founded with Joe Robinson in 2004.  In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. His multiple awards include: Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year; Bernard A. Goldhirsh Social Entrepreneur of the Year; New York Enterprise Report 2012 Founders Award for Social Entrepreneurship; National Director’s Entrepreneurship Award from U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency; Association of Education Publishers Golden Lamp Award for best curriculum (2002) and best math curriculum (2010); ACE/Currie Foundation Humanitarian Venture Award; USASBE Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year; CEO Club Social Entrepreneur of the Year; America’s Top High School Business Teacher. Steve has been profiled on national media, including ABC Evening News and 20/20. A Council on Foreign Relations member, he has lectured at The World Economic Forum, Davos and other forums and universities. Raised in Flint, Michigan, Steve received his B.B.A. in business economics and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mr. Mariotti has also studied at Harvard University, Stanford University, Brooklyn College and Babson College. He enjoys attending lectures on physics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in his current hometown, Princeton NJ.  In today’s conversation, Steve shares his story, how he overcame his personal learning disabilities and PTSD and used that experience to launch his teaching career, which ultimately led him to found NFTE and empower over a million young people to date.   Key Takeaways  Approximately 900,000 students drop out of school in the US, and they come from about 600 schools – called dropout factories. If we mess up the education of a young person, it doesn’t really matter what else we do afterwards. Many kids who grow up in poverty are unaware of the different prices for an item or production structure behind it; they only know the retail price. If we can eliminate poverty we can eliminate a lot of the problems we have, and then we can deal with other higher order problems. Those of us in the US need to look at countries like Finland with nearly a 100% literacy rate and Singapore who is so far ahead academically, and ask how ourselves we can get better. Every child should learn about small business. Resources Goodbye Homeboy: How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement Connect With Steve Mariotti and NFTE NFTE Website: nfte.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NFTE Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/NFTE Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/NFTE Steve Mariotti Website: https://www.stevemariotti.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveJMariotti Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveJMariotti Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve.mariotti

Don Panoz is the Chairman of Braselton, DeltaWing Technology Group and managing partner of DeltaWing Racing Cars. They provide a wide range of design, engineering, manufacturing, and transportation technologies solutions committed to delivering fuel efficient, emissions-reducing technologies that benefit everyday drivers and commuters. He is also chairman of the board of NanoLumens, designers and manufacturers of large-format LED display solutions. In 2013 Don became the 29th inductee into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America’s Bob Russo Heritage Award.

Change is in the Air.  The Autumn Season is among us.  As we say goodbye to the Month of September and All Her Glory, let's Welcome the Season of Transformation in Our Lives.  Now is the time to Slow Down and Reflect on what it is you truly desire to CREATE in Your Life.  What is your VISION for the remainder of the year?  What do you intend to Create as we go into the New Year?  What Areas of Your Life do you want to improve?  Finances, Relationships, Travel, Career, Health, Creativity, Spirituality?  You Have the Power to Create whatever You Desire.  You Have the Power to Create Lasting Change in Your Life.  Today is a CELEBRATION of the Arrival of a New Season.  Join us as we Embrace the Season of Transformation...Ready to Turn Your Visions into Reality For Real?  Our First Business BootCamp is Saturday October 3rd 10am-12noon @ the Epi-Center.  Home of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in Downtown Atlanta.  Tickets are only $25.  Email HoldTheVisionRadio@gmail.com to register.

Change is in the Air.  The Autumn Season is among us.  As we say goodbye to the Month of September and All Her Glory, let's Welcome the Season of Transformation in Our Lives.  Now is the time to Slow Down and Reflect on what it is you truly desire to CREATE in Your Life.  What is your VISION for the remainder of the year?  What do you intend to Create as we go into the New Year?  What Areas of Your Life do you want to improve?  Finances, Relationships, Travel, Career, Health, Creativity, Spirituality?  You Have the Power to Create whatever You Desire.  You Have the Power to Create Lasting Change in Your Life.  Today is a CELEBRATION of the Arrival of a New Season.  Join us as we Embrace the Season of Transformation...Ready to Turn Your Visions into Reality For Real?  Our First Business BootCamp is Saturday October 3rd 10am-12noon @ the Epi-Center.  Home of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in Downtown Atlanta.  Tickets are only $25.  Email HoldTheVisionRadio@gmail.com to register.

Is your business stuck? My guest, Barry Moltz,  gets business owners growing again! With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward.  Barry is a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, and he’s the author of several best-selling books, including You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business, Bounce!, BAM!  And now a fourth book, Small Town Rules: How Small Business and Big Brands can Profit in a Connected Economy. Barry has also appeared on many TV and radio programs such as CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Your Business and NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show.  He hosts his own radio show, Business Insanity Talk Radio, and writes regularly for the American Express Open Forum, and Forbes.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Franchise Today is a rebroadcast of the recent show with special guest, Mitch Schlimer, serial and social entrepreneur, host of the popular radio show, "Let's Talk Business", founder of Let's Talk Business Network, and founder of Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Franchise Today host, Paul Segreto and Mitch discussed the exciting things going on at the EpiCenter, the home of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame where this year's nominees include Oprah Winfrey, David McKinnon, Bernie Marcus, Steve Jobs, Earvin Magic Johnson and more. Mitch says, "We all need to get behind the EpiCenter (home of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame) and its mission, and that is to dramatically improve the success rates of businesses, as it is totally unacceptable that for decades the failure rate of start-up businesses in this country is still nearly 70%."

This week on Franchise Today, host Paul Segreto is joined by Mitch Schlimer, serial and social entrepreneur, host of the popular radio show, "Let's Talk Business", founder of Let's Talk Business Network, and founder of Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Paul and Mitch discuss the exciting things going on at the EpiCenter, the home of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame where this year's nominees include Oprah Winfrey, David McKinnon, Bernie Marcus, Steve Jobs, Earvin Magic Johnson and more.  Mitch says, "We all need to get behind the EpiCenter (home of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame) and its mission, and that is to dramatically improve the success rates of businesses, as it is totally unacceptable that for decades the failure rate of start-up businesses in this country is still nearly 70%."     

Ray Margiano, PhD, Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame 2012 Inductee and Founder and CEO of Foot Solutions