Video Interviews: Conversations with Champions

About the Video In this video interview Terry Howerton, Founding Chairman of ITA and TechNexus, shares how he co-founded ITA 10 years ago to create a place where people could self-identify as a tech community in Chicago. Featuring Terry Howerton, Founding Chairman of ITA and…

About the Video In this interview with Reese Schroeder, Managing Director of Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Reese shares Motorola’s thesis on investing. Reese spells out exactly how he wants to be pitched and shares where he sees entrepreneurs mess up when they walk in his…

About the Video Michael Alter, CEO of SurePayroll, shares three crucial lessons in this video interview on the sale of his company to Paychex for $115 million. Featuring Michael Alter, CEO, SurePayroll Robert Jordan, Author, How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart…

About the Video Ara Bagdasarian (CEO and Co-Founder of Omnilert) shares how Omnilert got it’s start, how it continues to stay ahead of the competition, and the entrepreneurial lessons it taught him along the way. Featuring Ara Bagdasarian, CEO & Co-Founder, Omnilert Robert Jordan, Author,…

About the Video Patrick Spain (former CEO, Hoover’s; Former CEO and Founder, HighBeam; Chairman of the Board, Newser LLC) sits down to talk about the process of launching, growing and selling HighBeam to Gale/Cengage all in the span of 6 years. Featuring Patrick Spain, Former…

About the Video On November 17, 2011, business leaders and entrepreneurs from around the heartland of America attended the Great Lakes Entrepreneurial Bash, a featured event of the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. A panel of world class company founders who started from scratch and…

About the Video On October 17, 2011 top business leaders, executives, company owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs attended the Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneurial Bash at the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland to celebrate outstanding entrepreneurship. A panel of world class company founders who started from scratch…

About the Video On October 3, 2011 top business leaders, executives, company owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs attended the New York Entrepreneurial Bash at the NYSE to celebrate outstanding entrepreneurship. A panel of world class company founders who started from scratch and blazed a trail to…

About the Video Bonnie Baskin, founder of ViroMed and AppTec Labs talks about her inspiring story and gives some great lessons for women everywhere who are launching or running companies. View Video in YouTube Featuring Bonnie Baskin, Founder, AppTec Labs & ViroMed Labs Robert Jordan,…

About the Video Gerald “Solutionman” Haman of SolutionPeople.com shares how he is taking over the world one brainstorming session at a time. Not many people can say that they are: (1) The world record holder for leading the biggest brainstorming session. Gerald brought together 8,000…

About the Video Bob Armour and Brian Hand of Timelines, Inc. discuss the launch of a new,free iPhone photosharing app called Photogram. Featuring Brian Hand, Timelines, Inc. Bob Armour, Timelines, Inc. Robert Jordan, Author, How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of…

About the Video Troy Henikoff, co-founder of SurePayroll, started out eleven years ago, figured out the right business to be in through trial and error, then started cranking on a very standard concept – processing payroll.  Troy and team turned the conventional approach to payroll…