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The BusinessMakers™ Show is a weekly radio broadcast, web cast and web magazine that champions innovation by featuring and interviewing “make it happen” entrepreneurs and by offering domain expertise for the business sector. The BusinessMakers™ was first broadcast in June of 2005. There have been 500+ guest interviews and 250+ domain expert vignettes broadcast. All are archived at www.TheBusinessMakers.com.

The BusinessMakers™ features informative and entertaining personal stories through interviews with:
• Entrepreneurs – Guests range from early stage start-ups to retired octogenarian major success stories and include notable figures such as: Fred Smith (FedEx); Steve Wozniak (Apple); Lowry Mays (Clear Channel); Nolan Bushnell (Pong, Atari and Chuck E. Cheese); Pete Cashmore (Mashable); S. Truett Cathy (Chick Fil A); Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia); Matt Mullenwegg (WordPress); Janet Gurwitch (Laura Mercier Cosmetics); Roger Staubach (The Staubach Companies); Craig Newmark (CraigsList.org); Rod Canion (Compaq); Tim Westergren (Pandora); Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) and more.
• Innovating Intrapreneurs – Such as Carly Fiorina (HP); Gordon Bethune (Continental Airlines); Michael Eskew (UPS); Paul S. Amos (Aflac); Jeffrey Hayzlett (Kodak); Bill Conner (Entrust) and more.
• Non-Profit Entrepreneurs – Such as Catherine Rohr (Prison Entrepreneurship Program); Bryan Lehnan (Village Enterprise Fund); Mark Bent (BoGoLight); Sharon Rush (Knowbility) and more.
• Authors - Such as Malcolm Gladwell (The Outliers, Blink, The Tipping Point); Chris Anderson (The Long Tail); Timothy Ferriss (The 4 Hour Work Week); Guy Kawasaki (The Art of the Start); Christopher Gardner (The Pursuit of Happyness); Jeffrey Gitomer (The Sales Bible) and others.
• University based Entrepreneurship Programs – Including: USC; MIT; TCU; Babson College; Rice University; The University of Houston; The University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and more.
 Subject Matter Experts - Including Venture Capitalists, Investment Bankers, Business Plan Consultants, Business Lawyers, HR Experts, Technology Specialists, New Business Regulation Experts and more.

The BusinessMakers is continuously in pursuit of new audience members, interesting guests, domain experts, talented and creative prospective BusinessMakers team-members and B to B sponsors interested in getting in front of our high quality business audience. Please contact me if you fit in any of those categories.