Nick Wallace, Co-Founder, Wallace Farms Healthy Living: More and more people are looking for ways to eat in a healthier way. They are looking for more reputable sources, as they don’t always trust what the labels say, or every marketing angle that are used by the big box producers. Climate Change: Continued drought could [...]
Nick Wallace, Co-Founder, Wallace Farms The farm Nick calls home has been in the Wallace family since 1894. As was typical of many farms back in the day, they raised cattle, grew a handful of crops and raised chickens on this 160-acre farm in Keystone, Iowa. After WWII, agriculture changed because of the introduction of [...]
Nick Wallace, Co-Founder, Wallace Farms Nick and his family launched the Wallace Farms brand in 2001 to provide customers with the highest quality grass fed beef, other naturally raised meats, and wild seafood that are pesticide and hormone-free . The Quick Take: Best Advice: Communicate with your customer through your website and other social [...]
Shelly Herman, Co –Founder, Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks Financial Prowess: It can be challenging once you use up your initial investment to continue to grow at a pace that you would like. Everyone wishes they had more money to do things a little faster, and to grow at a quicker pace. It is not [...]
Shelly Herman, Co –Founder, Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks It started with a “vision” day at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Shelly left her job of ten years, and Irv, her husband was a freelancer at this time. They strolled through the gardens together, spent time alone, and mapped out what they wanted to do both [...]
Shelly Herman, Co –Founder, Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks Shelly Herman and her husband Irv, founded Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks, a Chicago area local organic food supply company, delivering more healthy organic foods to your table in an easy and affordable way. The Quick Take Best Advice: Building great relationships with your employees and [...]
Nate Lassiter, Co-Founder, Who’s In, · Knowledge is Key: Having a great idea will only get you so far. Being able to execute and design apps or websites around your idea is crucial. Building a highly desirable skill set, such as coding, is too important not to attain. · Mobile Industry of the Future: We [...]
Nate Lassiter, Co-Founder, Who’s In In 2006, Nate read a press release about a new company that was starting in the mobile marketing field. At the time he was managing the digital division of a record label company, so he felt that he could bring a lot to the table. He wanted to be a [...]
Nate Lassiter is currently the Creative Director of Phonevalley, a Publicis Groupe company. He is also co-founder of the recently launched App Who’s In, http://app.seewhos.in. a mobile app that allows people to save and share fun places they would like to go. The Quick Take Best Advice: Finding people that are willing to work hard [...]
Kerry Lynn Spindler, KSpin Design, PrettyPale.org What We Can Learn from Her Side of the Desk Believe in Yourself. Never take someone else’s opinion as your own. If you feel strongly about starting a business, start it. Stay the Course. Don’t expect to race to the finish line. There is a perception that the minute [...]
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