Like many kids, I too had little businesses: from a lemonade stand, to mowing lawns, to shoveling snow.  I had a big imagination, but not enough patience…some would say that I haven’t changed much!

I love […]

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t own my own business.  I come from a family of entrepreneurs.  My grandfather started his steel fabricating business in 1945.  As the only male […]

As it has been told to me, shortly after I learned to talk I was asking the question why.  According to my mom the topics ranged from why appliances worked the way they did, to the way clothes fit.  The consistent […]

When I was at North Central High School, junior year meant one thing. Junior Spectacular. Junior Spec (for short) is a collection of one-act plays written, directed, acted and choreographed entirely by members of […]

Around the age of 11 or 12 my younger sister, Marina and I shared our neighborhood paper route. It was a great “job” that kept us active and got us out and about either on foot or on our bikes each day to deliver […]

I’ve always been a freelancer of some sort or another most of my life, so I suppose it makes sense that I still am now.

I had a freelance lawn mowing business and snow shoveling business as a kid. I just did it […]

Did I have a business as a kid?  When wasn’t I in business as a kid might be the more difficult question.

Looking back it seems that I had a pretty crazy understanding of supply and demand when I was in […]

My unofficial business started In 2nd grade. I sold NFL pencils to classmates.  As other team pencils were always in stock, the bookstore would consistently run out of Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboy […]

My grandparents had a restaurant as I was growing up.  I played hostess, kitchen manager, table busser, and head maraschino cherry eater.  What I liked to do most was entertain people.  I would just walk up to […]

As a child, I had many failed start-ups…

There was the rock stand I set up in front of our house when I was seven.  My mom wouldn’t let me make lemonade and it was too hot to bake cookies, so she told me to be […]

I had a lemonade stand and also baby-sat for awhile. I rode horses competitively as a child all the way through college and started teaching riding lessons when I was 16.  While my peers were hanging out on the […]

In 1958 I was in the 2nd grade in Anderson, Indiana. My brother, who is seven years older, had a newspaper route delivering the Anderson Bulletin,
 an afternoon paper. He gave me a 50-cent piece each week to help […]

At a very early age, I recognized people’s talents. I remember as a kid seeing what people were really good at, a particular skill or a talent they had, and suggesting what they should do with their lives. I  […]

I ran the gamut of businesses from babysitting, to lemonade stands, to even employing my two sisters in the 3rd grade to sell “cinnamon toothpicks” at school for a dime each.  This business failed quickly, as I […]

Few people know that one of my first entrepreneurial ventures as a kid in 7th grade was selling an “adult” magazine to kids for $20 a pop. I signed up for a publisher’s clearinghouse subscription. I’d get off the […]