Today's Entrepreneur: Tony Schmidt

They have their ups and downs. But at the end of the day, these creative daredevils are the ones who are changing the world.

Within our community you will find a number of talented innovators.

This year, we created new profiles for our Vator members to share their story.

So if you are a first-time, serial, or even an aspiring entrepreneur, we'd like to hear from you.

Today's entrepreneur is Tony Schmidt, founder of APOonline.org, GreekTrack.com, and ManageYour.Org.

According to his VEQ (Vator's entrepreneur self-assessment test), Tony is a marketing manager, and is good at project development and product management.

Tony created software to help manage his community service organization during his undergraduate years at the University of Kentucky.  His solution quickly spreak to other colleges in the area.  A short year later he had started his first company: APOonline.org. In the first year, the company grew to over 80 college campuses.  Meanwhile Tony was brought into what he says was, "[an] entirely new world".  That world that he'd never heard of was the world of entrepreneurship.

Tony had never taken a business class, but picked up the trade quickly.  He appeared in several pitch contests and quickly guided his business to profitability.  Winning 5 Across in Lexington put him on a path to Vator Spash, where he appeared in February 2011.  Since my success with APOonline he has released the popular software for all greek organizations at GreekTrack.com and all non-greek organizations at ManageYour.Org.