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Young Entrepreneurs

Interview with Mike Michalowicz, Author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur 0

A graduate of Inc. & MIT’s “Birthing of Giants” Entrepreneurial Program, Mike Michalowicz received Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards multiple times. He is a recurring guest on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and in the New York Times, Smart CEO Magazine, and other publications.

Mike is a guest lecturer for entrepreneurial groups at Babson, Boston College, Columbia, Harvard, Penn State, and other colleges throughout the country. He bleeds Orange and Maroon (meaning he’s a die-hard Virginia Tech Hokie fan).

Mike, what is the best age to start a business?

Mike: Whatever age you are at this exact moment, regardless if you are 12, 25, or 81.  The key is not the age as much as starting now.  Clearly, you have time on your side the younger you are when you start.  So regardless of your age today, you will be older tomorrow.  So start today, before you get older tomorrow.

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Interview with French Entrepreneur Mathieu Maréchal 0

Mathieu Maréchal is a French entrepreneur that started a company dealing with translations. Let’s see how owning a niche translation company could grow into a good business in Europe.

Mathieu, tell us a little bit about your business in France. What does it do?

Mathieu: Trad Online is a linguistic services provider, we provide our customers with professional translation and interpreting services (translation of brochures, contracts, Websites, technical documents, etc.) as well as language training, and we also have the aim of being innovative in an industry which, at least in France, is quite mature/old in its outlook and way of doing business.

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Interview with Andres Sehr from Edicy – a new technological venture from Estonia 0

Not sure if you know, but Skype was born in Estonia and quickly become one of the reference points when talking about innovative technologies that turned into gold in just a couple of years. Estonia is a small country in the Baltic region that’s called the Silicon Valley on the Baltic Sea. I was very happy to get in touch with Andres Sehr, head of marketing for Edicy – a new online venture born in Estonia and find out about business innovation and people behind it.

Estonia is Skype’s home and has become the Silicon Valley on the Baltic Sea. What’s special in starting a technology company in Estonia?

Andres: Estonians have embraced technology since we’re regained independence.  We skipped a whole generation of technology and went straight to mobile phones, wireless internet and e-voting.  I think this wide acceptance of technology has really made it easier for people to be enthusiastic and interested in tech and therefore there’s a large number of companies that have come from it. Read more
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Interview with Scott Law from Zotec Partners 0

Scott Law started Zotec Solutions in 1998 after losing his job at Anthem Inc.’s medical billing subsidiary, Allmed Financial. Anthem pulled the plug on that division, leaving many employees like Law out of work.  But this was only a temporary setback.  He recognized an unlikely opportunity and decided to take this chance to start his own company.

Ten years later, Law has navigated Zotec from a small one-person shop to the largest privately held medical billing company in the country. In 2007 alone, Zotec added nearly 500 employees and had a revenue growth rate of more than 221%.

Scott, welcome to Entrepreneurship-interviews.com!  For starters, tell us a few words about yourself and Zotec Partners, the largest privately held medical billing company in the U.S.

Scott: Thanks for the exciting opportunity to share my story with your readers! I formed Zotec Solutions back in May of 1998, so the company just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Before being Zotec, we were a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anthem, named Allmed Financial, Inc. Allmed grew by acquisitions to be the third-largest medical billing company in the nation. I was the CFO/CIO responsible for migrating all seventeen acquired practice management systems into one internally developed practice management solution. I spent three years working with Andersen Consulting to develop the Electronic Billing Center (“EBC”) software.
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Interview with Derek Johnson, Tatango’s Founder and CEO 0

Derek Johnson is a young entrepreneur that back in 2007 while being a college student saw an opportunity to launch a website to allow members of a group to communicate more easily using their cell phones. Within a few months of launch the site grew to over 400,000 users and over 15 million text messages. It’s a concept that’s now been adopted by various websites and companies, most recently by cellphones provider o2 whose latest line of o2 phones is said to come with a unique web to mobile phone compatibility for a more seamless interaction.

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Hi Derek and Welcome on board! I will get right on with the questions. So tell us a little bit about your business.

Derek: Our business is pretty simple, we have built a website that allows any type of group; athletic team, college organization, family, business etc. the ability to communicate more efficiently with their group members by using their cell phones. Tatango allows a group leader the ability to jump on a computer or their mobile phone and send one message, which then gets routed to all of their member’s mobile phone in the form of a text message. Tatango betters any groups’ communication, allowing their members to stay connected anytime, anywhere. Tatango is great for last minute notifications, weekly alerts, promotional advertising, or any message that needs to be delivered to all group members immediately. Email is the new snail mail and hardly ever gets checked, and phone calls take forever, groups need to communicate in real time, Tatango allows them to do that.

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