Johnny Simon

Johnny Simon

Serial Entrepreneur, first to market debt settlement services on the internet. Also, created much of the procedures used in debt settlement industry.

Culver City, California, United States
Member since May 17, 2011
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I will disrupt the industry I helped to create. Quote_down
  • About
Education
1987 Michigan State University , BA , Materials and Logistics Mangement

I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to invent something cool.

My favorite startups:

mint.com, groupon.com, livingsocial.com.

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Most frustrating is raising capital. Most rewarding is the feeling of creating something new and innovative to help people.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Underestimate the fundraising process.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. Make sure your deck, business plan and financial plan all work together and presented in the proper fashion to your specific target investor. In other words, the deck sent to a VC is different from one sent to an Angel.
2. If you're going to do something, do it now.
3. File for patents.

Full bio

•Johnny Simon, Founder.

Mr. Simon is a serial entrepreneur and a debt settlement industry pioneer with over 22 years experience in the industry. Mr. Simon was first to register debtsettlement.com and market debt settlement services over the Internet. In his former role as Managing Director, he built his debt settlement company with about $25MM in annualized revenue from only $2,500 startup capital.