Hi Benjamin, and welcome to Entrepreneurship interviews. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Benjamin: Hi Christian, thanks for this opportunity. I’m Benjamin Lang, a 15-year-old sophomore, and I recently returned from a year in Israel. I do eBay and craigslist selling (ebayben.com), web design (ben-lang.com), and teen entrepreneur consulting (teenbizstarter.com).
Hi Ohad, welcome. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Ohad: I am glad to be here, and thanks for inviting me. I’m Ohad Rosen from Israel, an entrepreneur mainly focused on Internet ventures, with wide experience in the field of online marketing. I’m the co-founder of CelebritiesFans and Jewishop, the Marketing Director of JerusalemOnline, and involved in some other ventures as well. I’m also a political activist and serves on the board of directors of the Kiryat Ono College of Photography.
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Hi Amit, and thank you for accepting the interview. Tell us a little about yourself.
Amit: Thank you for having me. I’m Amit, 23 years old from Israel. I’m a professional software & web developer/consultant, via my consulting firm called bWitty, and currently I’m the Founder & CEO of Taykey, a stealth-mode startup in the field of semantic technologies.
Mark Husmann is a serial entrepreneur that has now started another very interesting project which caught my attention: he has been filming a documentary for the past fourteen months on an entrepreneur (himself) trying to create a successful billion-dollar business during a declining economy. Jason Boritz and producer Jonathan Salemi, are the filmmakers making the movie on Mark.
Hi Mark, how are you today?
Mark: Busy…still trying to raise money and put deals together.
I had a look at your site yesterday and saw you are making something interesting. A movie about starting a billion $ business with $100: so tell us a little about the movie.
Mark: The movie is a year in the life of a serial entrepreneur (me) and all of the highs and lows I go through in the building of a new company.
Mark, how old are you?
Mark: 47 today 48 in less than a month
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Hi Justin, and welcome on board. What’s your business about?
Justin: Thanks for having me, Christian. In short – Novel Concept Studio is all about helping companies expand their web presence.
Ah, there are a lot of Web Marketing companies out there, so what is your success recipe?
Justin: There are indeed several web marketing companies out there. Internet marketing is probably the most competitive market you can get into. I was able to capitalize on the industry, though. Several internet marketers and web developers lack the fundamentals to be successful, whether it is through their customer service, their appearance and the way they present themselves, or just their response times. These areas are what I wanted Novel Concept Studio to focus on.
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