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Brian Rosenbarger was the entrepreneur that we chose to interview to gain more insight into what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Brian is the owner of R&R construction and it is a sole proprietorship that he started in 1999. Since he has been in business for 17 years, he was able to offer a lot of advice to us as young entrepreneurs. We will discuss the advice he gave more in depth later. There were quite a few things that stood out to us about Brian that allowed us to better understand the life of an entrepreneur.

The book “Brian’s Return” was written by Gary Paulsen. It was published by the Delacorte Press in New York, New York. It was manufactured in the United States of America in 1999. This book is a fiction book. He dedicated this book to Alana for taking care of Linda.

In “The Last Stop” Brian Cable gives his rendition of what death is like and how we as human beings cope and handle it. Cable started the essay with his own view of death. In the first part he says, “Death is a subject largely ignored by the living. We don’t discuss it much, not as children, not as adults, and not even as seniors.” (104) Cable then gives a description of the mortuary he visits to interview a funeral director and its licensed mortician. He describes the building as, “a bit like a church, tall, with gothic arches and stained glass.” (104) He goes on to say that “it was not what I expected. I had thought it would be more like Forest Lawn, serene with green lush lawns and meticulously groomed gardens.” (104) However, instead

Walnut Venture Associates are a group of angel investors. In 1997 the club had around a dozen individual investors, forming an “angel group”. Their primary targets are investments ranging from $250,000 to $1,000,000. This is due to the gap of capital funds initiated by the VC’s from not considering investments bellow $1 million. Also, angel investors can acquire significant equity at low cost, and help the growth of the company with their knowledge and expertise. By selecting only the most exceptional people and ideas, investments in startups can lead to massive returns on relatively small investments. As unexperienced entrepreneurs, they are a key resource to have in order to achieve quick growth, and secure the company’s early stages.

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Brian’s Return is about a man named Brian, he volunteered to go on a camping

Babe Ruth said, "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." A dedicated, determined worker and leader is what brings projects to completion. The quality, first-class work elevates projects. This comes from knowledgeable people who understand clients and their vision while using their own experience and creativity to make dreams come true.

CEO Johnson’s time with JC Penney’s was short lived and only lasted 17 months. The three core processes of business that he ignored was People, Strategy, and Operations. From the people aspect, he missed several key details. Johnson just assumed that people thought JC Penney’s prices were too high, so he lowered them and quit having sells (Tuttle, 2013). He also drove customers that had been shopping there for years away. With too many changes happening at one time, loyal customers did not agree with the changes and started shopping elsewhere.

David Kane is an African-American young gentleman, who has been latterly awarded the position of a principal at the Thurgood Marshall High School, Illinois. The school is two years old and divided into four “house”, each comprised of 300 students, 18 faculty members and a housemaster. Dr. Louis Parker had been the school’s first principal and had an impressive background, but he reassigned in disillusionment and many described him as a “broken man” .

The CEO Elon Musk has earlier founded companies like PayPal and SpaceX, so he has a good track record.

Perry Mandera is the CEO (Chief Executive Officer)and founder of The Custom Companies, Inc. His career spans many years in the transportation and logistics industries beginning in 1976. For over forty years Perry Mandera has worked in the shipping and servicing sector fulfilling clients needs in Illinois and around the country. Perry Mandera is a success story in the shipping and servicing field. His many years of ability has made him stand tall above others in this field.

Gil Reihana is a smart, young, ambitious, and educated entrepreneur. After graduating college with an information technology degree, Reihana inherited a substantial amount of money. With investments from multiple family members & coupled with his inheritance, Reihana launched X-Stream. X-Stream is a technology company that assembles personal computers and sells them through chain stores & independent retailers throughout New Zealand and Australia. The company gained a reputation for having “quality hardware, customized products, excellent delivery times, and after-sales service” (McShane &Von Glinow, 2013). In

Walnut Venture Associates is a small group of angel investors with backgrounds in the software industry. RBS is a small software company that makes billing and enterprise management software specifically targeted at other software companies. RBS and Walnut are deciding whether Walnut should invest in RBS, and then if they are willing, whether RBS finds the terms of the deal satisfactory. This case memo illustrates that the venture capitalists are looking for good managers in a particular industry, while entrepreneurs typically think funding is dependent on having a good idea. It also discusses why or why not RBS and Walnut might be a good fit for each other.

MGI partnered with two potential MBA Harvard Business candidates Dana Soiman and Henry Tam Jr. Together Dana and Henry would hopefully help create the business plan and make a successful entry leading to a new start for their music game as well. Over the course of time and throughout the development of the business Plan Dan Clark, a graduate student in the brain and Cognitive Science Department at MIT, and Alexander Jan Sartakov, expert in the music industry and business, were added to the group. This was in hopes to get more knowledge and power to create a business plan.

Virgin Group Ltd is a British multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate and this company was founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in 1970. This group has over 200 business organizations and this is a large network of organizations which cover many areas in the business world (Campbell, et al., 2011).