Tech Town Director Randal Charlton shares a valuable lesson learned from his own previous business failure. Today, after taking his company public, Randal is working to rebuild Detroit by equipping new companies with the services, support and resources they need to grow and thrive.

Turning Technologies Founder Mike Broderick describes the entrepreneur's mindset.

Serial entrepreneur and Phylogy CEO Tim Mueller describes the reality and the responsibility of being an entrepreneur.

Pandora founder Tim Westergren describes his experience pitching more than 300 investors -from relatives to hedge fund managers - over a two-year period to get Pandora off the ground.

Leslie Carruthers, Founder & President of TheSearchGuru.com describes the shift it takes moving from sole proprietor to a staffed business.

Lisa Bargmann, VP of Strategic Development at Invacare HCS talks about her own personal experience with starting her business and the hard work it takes.

Command Fire Apparatus founder Glenn Usdin explains the difference between his entrepreneurial business and the corporate environment he was exposed to once he sold it to a larger company.

John Osher, serial entrepreneur and inventor of the SpinBrush, describes the three words that are what he calls "the essence of entrepreneurial success".

Nineteen year old Jesse Srpan, founder of Raw Iron Choppers, talks about how an early setback strengthened his resolve to succeed.

Mal Mixon is Chairman of the Board & CEO of Invacare, a $1.8B business he bought through leveraging $10k of his personal savings. He talks about his early beginnings and how he came to the realization that owning and running his own business suited him more than a corporate job.

Blake Squires, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Playaway took his idea to production in 13 months. He discusses the value in growing your network and also maintaining those relationships.

While still in high school, Michael Furdyk sold his website for more than a million dollars. Today, he is the Co-Founder of TakingITGlobal , an online community engaging hundreds of thousands of youth in over 200 countries, talks about the importance of embracing failure.

Sam Gerace, CEO of Veritix shares an early experience he had with one of his first companies. He talks about the opportunities that can be found within a client's company by simply over-delivering. He also explains the importance of asking the right questions and understanding a client's needs, even sometimes better than they do.

Louis Piconi, Co-Founder & CEO of Apangea Learning dispels a common view people have of what it means to be an entrepreneur. He goes on to explain the importance of serving your employees and clients.

We talked with Professor Richard Boyatzis from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve Univeristy and author of Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion. He explains through a personal experience how powerful it really is to keep students engaged.

Serial entrepreneur Ron Copfer discusses the evolutionary process of ideas. He reveals the value in experience and significance of embracing our mistakes.

Award winning entrepreneur Ryan Carroll, President of Lake City Plating explains the importance of failing fast.

Mark Brandt, Vice President of Bernstein Global Wealth Management talks about some of the realities of being an entrepreneur and also explains what most entrepreneurs are "betting" on in his experience.

While at the Entrepreneurship Education FORUM in Austin, TX this month, we caught up with Bertrand Sosa, President of MPOWER Labs, Inc. for a quick interview. He started NetSpend ten years ago with his brother after figuring out there was a need in the market for people to have the ability to make purchases with reloadable, prepaid debit cards.

Gerald Fogelson, Co-Chairman & CEO of Central Station Development Corporation; founder and CEO of the Fogelson Group of Companies; and Co-Founder of the Chicago School of Real Estate at Roosevelt University, are among Jerry's many accomplishments. We talked to Jerry about how entrepreneurs are innovative problem solvers who can see ways to prosper, even in difficult economic times like today.

Don McNeill, President & Executive Producer of Digital Kitchen, explains why having passion and a deep understanding of the business you're going into are essential to your success. Digital Kitchen is an Emmy Award winning creative marketing and design firm with offices in Chicago, LA, Seattle and New York.

In a recent interview Dr. Curtis Carlson, President and CEO of The Stanford Research Institute, describes the importance of innovation, entrepreneurship and tapping into the genius of your team (or your students). Among his many achievements, Dr. Carlson started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program that became the U.S. standard and in 1997 won an Emmy® Award for outstanding technical achievement. Another team started and led by Carlson won an Emmy® in 2000 for a system that measures broadcast image quality. His new book, Innovation: The Five Disciplines For Creating What Customers Want is a must-read for anyone who is interested in tapping into the genius of their team/students.

When it comes to financial projections, social entrepreneur John Zitzner, founder of E City Cleveland and The Entrepreneurship Preparatory School, describes his rules for keeping it real.

Craig Zamary of Green Energy TV talks about quitting his job to start his first business after realizing the type of revenue he was bringing in and having an idea through his experience. He goes on to describe how he worked more than one job while starting just to stay hungry.

We recently caught up with Dave Roush at a networking event in Cleveland. In this segment Dave describes the “top down” approach he used to raise $50M to launch Insurance.com, an online independent auto insurance agency.

On a recent trip to Chicago we caught up with Rahul Chowdhury, a recent Kellogg graduate, who told us how he came up with the concept and launched DenuoSource, an international sales and marketing consulting firm.

In this segment, Rahul describes the value of his MBA and how it helped him launch DenuoSource. “At the end of the day... any business no matter what you do, it takes a lot of effort” Chowdhury explains, “we might as well do something bigger because the effort is the same.”

Why not think big? A question we should all be asking ourselves.

Entrepreneur Tim Weaver explains how an experience with a customer presented an opportunity that eventually led to the future success of his company.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Bill Recker discusses some common myths that entrepreneurs believe vs. what they should really be focused on.

MemberHealth, Inc. 500's Top Ranked Company for 2007's Founder & CEO Chuck Hallberg talks about managing growth and what it takes to build a successful company.

Legendary venture capitalist David Morgenthaler provides valuable insight into the world of investing in new venture creation and the odds of success from a venture capital perspective.

Entrepreneur Thom Ruhe, Director of Communications at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, describes the potential impact of growing up in an entrepreneurial environment.

We caught up with Michael Gerber recently to talk about his new book: Awakening The Entrepreneur Within - How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies in which he describes vision as the key to creating opportunity. "There are an infinite array of possibilities" Gerber said, "The question is: are you up to it?"

Artist and intrepid entrepreneur, Deby Cowdin, Co-founder and President of From the Blue Bag, found her voice, energy, and self confidence through her entrepreneurial experience. By recycling bottles into functional works of art, Deby is making a difference in her own life as well as a positive impact on the planet.

Citing an excerpt from The Cluetrain Manifesto, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark describes markets as "conversations" - a powerful insight into the unique philosophy of customer service that helped him reach 10 billion monthly page views.

Emmy Award winner Jim Stovall captures the essence of innovation and entrepreneurship as he describes how he started Narrative Television Network after becoming totally blind at the age of 29 - Truly an inspiration for anyone searching for opportunity or facing a challenge.

Pulitzer prize nominated author, educator and entrepreneur Clifton Taulbert describes the life-changing influence he experienced as a child growing up in the Mississippi Delta - an amazing story of the power of innovation, entrepreneurship and the ability of one man to transcend limitations and define life on his own terms. The entire interview will be available soon.