How to Start a Business! with Greg Steltenpohl, Reiva Lesonsky, Keiron McCammon, Schwark Satyavolu, Larry Carnell and Neil Patel

Do you daydream about making lots of money running your own business but don't know what to do or how to get started? Or are you an emerging entrepreneur with a day job and your own business in your free time?  

If you're sick of working for other people and dream of starting your own business, why not start your own business now?

Most Businesses Fail, Take This Course to Succeed*

Our Expert Panel has a host of innovative new ways that you can use to start making more money NOW.

In this sensational seminar with a panel of business experts, you will learn how to:

Start using your skills and resources to create the life you've always wanted!

Our expert panel includes:



Greg Steltenpohl Founder and Former CEO of Odwalla, Inc. Greg Steltenpohl

Greg Steltenpohl is founder and former CEO of Odwalla, Inc, the leading U.S. supplier of fresh juice and nourishing beverages. Greg is now the Co-founder of Adina for Life Inc., a venture backed startup focused on building an organic and fair trade brand with a good for you, good for the planet mission in the natural beverage category.

While at Odwalla, Greg led the company through its transformation from a small start-up to a publicly held corporation with an average growth rate exceeding 50 percent per year.   Greg is a pioneer in employing ideals of environmental sustainability, employee empowerment, creative corporate culture, and community based marketing.

Together with Visa Founder Dee Hock, Mr. Steltenpohl has also been the co-founder and Chairman of the Interra Project. Mr. Steltenpohl has served on the advisory boards of  Slow Money, the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union,  Frontier Natural Products Cooperative and Social Venture Network.  Greg graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies and currently resides in San Francisco.

Rieva Lesonsky Rieva Lesonsky

Rieva Lesonsky is CEO of GrowBiz Media, a content and consulting company specializing in covering small businesses and entrepreneurship. Before co-founding GrowBiz Media, Lesonsky was Editorial Director of Entrepreneur Magazine. A nationally known speaker and authority on entrepreneurship, Rieva has been covering America's entrepreneurs for more than 26 years.

Lesonsky has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and numerous local and national television programs, includingthe Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox Business News, The Martha Stewart showand Oprah and can regularly be seen on MSNBC's Your Business. Lesonsky has written several books about small business and entrepreneurship, including the bestseller, Start Your Own Business. She is an editor-at-large at AllBusiness.com and contributes to The Huffington Post and numerous business Web sites.

She served on the Small Business Administration's National Advisory Council for six years, and was honored by the SBA as a Small Business Media Advocate and a Woman in Business Advocate. The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization honored her for helping drive "the entrepreneurial revolution in secondary education." The ASBDC awarded her a "Champion of Small Business" award. In 2003 Lesonsky was inducted into the Business Journalism Hall of Fame.

Keiron McCammon Keiron McCammon

Keiron McCammon is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Kaboodle. Kaboodle is the #1 online social shopping site. With over 15 million monthly visitors, and listed in the Top 150 US ComScore Internet properties, it continues dominate the social shopping arena. In 2005 McCammon co-founded Kaboodle, and in 2007 was acquired by Hearst Corporation, one of the nation's largest diversified media companies.

Bill Zanker, Founder & President of The Learning Annex Schwark Satyavolu

Schwark Satyavolu is a co-founder, President and one of the original visionaries behind BillShrink. As a result of his own family's frustration with information overload and confusion when trying to switch cell phone plans, Schwark, a serial entrepreneur, started thinking about how to use web technology to solve this problem.
Schwark was previously an entrepreneur-in-residence with Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), where he explored opportunities to leverage the Internet and innovative information aggregation techniques to solve real-world problems. Prior to his tenure with BVP, Schwark was with Yodlee for eight years, where he developed the technology, co-founded the company, and served in a variety of functions, including chief technology officer. Prior to this, Schwark worked at Microsoft, where he was responsible for designing and developing several key features of Microsoft's project management tool.
Schwark has produced seminal TCP/IP research and holds three patents, with 15 others pending. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Larry Carnell VP of Business Development for Bene Trends Larry Carnell

Larry Carnell is the Vice President of Business Development for BeneTrends, Incorporation - the industry pioneer in enabling individuals to use their retirement funds tax deferred, penalty and debt free to buy, start or grow a business.  He is considered one of the pre-eminent subject matter experts on this resource and it's use with other funding options. He has spent much of the last three decades as a national trainer and lecturer.  He is a recipient of numerous awards including the National Franchisor Star Award, President's Club Management Consulting Award and has obtained the International Business Brokers Association's highest certification designation as a CBI.  He is a frequent lecturer at national conventions and seminars and has been a noted speaker and guest for several broadcast media events, both televised and radio.

Neil Patel Neil Patel

Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.