1987 Michigan State University , BA , Materials and Logistics Mangement |
Entrepreneur
I want to invent something cool.
mint.com, groupon.com, livingsocial.com.
Most frustrating is raising capital. Most rewarding is the feeling of creating something new and innovative to help people.
Underestimate the fundraising process.
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.
•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.