On November 4th, Club E staged it's third event since it's "rebirth" and I cannot tell you how gratifying it was to hold this "standing room only crowd" in the newly opened Club E Office (CEO) at it's Tempe headquarters. Ingrid Vanderveldt was the speaker, and I had met Ingrid over 2 years ago, when she spoke at one of our first Club Entrepreneur events. We quickly became great friends and partnered up on the online version of our organization at the Club E Network (www.clubenetwork.com).
Our big dreams together for a sweeping social network and web resource with the Club E Network never quite got out of the starting gate but our friendship thrived and when the opportunity came to bring her into a project that had her name all over it...I eagerly brought her to my friends' "green energy" business..which was started through an introduction facilitated by Club Entrepreneur a couple of years ago. Ingrid has thrived as the "Synergy Officer" for Advanced Green Innovations and we are now working alongside each other as I do my best to bring money, strategic alliances and high level introductions to that amazing enterprise.
Last January, I took a hiatus of holding Club E monthly meetings and focused on developing my eFactory concept for around 6 months. Try as I might, with a talented group of folks doing their best to help...that original concept never quite took off. We had a lot of false starts with landlords who just didn't "get it" and ended up going bankrupt, with their properties seized by banks that even managed to go under themselves. It wasn't a pretty picture..but still I persisted with the thought that the idea had merit....eventually.
So, I went back to our roots and brought back the monthly meetings for Club E in September and since then, we've had three sell-out events with many new members in our midst (thanks to the tireless marketing by Toby Lindemann) and a whole lot of excitement that has been generated from our return. We even managed to resurrect the once "dead" eFactory concept and decided to jumpstart that concept over too, re-naming it Club E Offices (www.clubeoffices.com)
Under the skillful management of Jim and Sonia Graham, the founders of the Start Up Now workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com), the first CEO (Club E Office) was unveiled to the public at our November 4th event with Ingrid. There is a lot of interest in our new facility and I predict great success with this model. Steve Bonenberger (December's speaker) interviewed me on his National radio station about CEO just yesterday.
Two other terrific Club E innovations, including the launch of the Club E Exchange, under the enthusiastic leadership of Karen Waer and the strategic partnership with Mojo Marketing occurred at this meeting...and I'll share about that on another blog.
In the meantime, check out our new Club E video newsletters here...http://clubeoffice.com/_blog/Club_E_Video
Best always,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Club E is hitting full stride....
Last night marked the second monthly meeting at Club E's "rebirth" and it was outstanding. After an hour of networking among the 100 or so guests, we moved into the amphitheater and covered a number of new innovations for Club E. We were very fortunate to have caught the eye of the local ABC Television affiliate, Channel 15 here in Phoenix, who filmed and interviewed Club E members throughout the night. The link below is that coverage...
http://www.abc15.com/content/financialsurvival/azstories/story/Valley-club-helps-entrepreneurs-grow-and-develop/zsf4xhy2b0yvHXdvD40D7A.cspx
The meeting began with outlining some of the numerous developments that resulted directly from Club E members' help with last month's presenter and his "green energy" company. Over 100 Club E members and their associates have met privately with the principals since last month and the results are nothing less than extraordinary. To wit:
One Club E member has located a multi-billion dollar manufacturer to ramp up productions of the "green energy" company's injectors.
Another Club E member has landed a $50MM commitment to build out a new facility for the company.
Yet another Club E member has produced a funding commitment for a $100MM line of credit with a "green energy fund," which will literally provide all of the capital resources that our presenter's company needs to ramp up it's amazing technologies and bring them to market.
One Club E member has brought the technical solutions for the "green energy" company's lab and workspace needs.
Finally, (for now) there have been numerous offers to invest in the company's upcoming financial offering, strategic alliance proposals and even licensing deals...all resulting from just one Club E meeting of interested entrepreneurs.
The principal of the "green energy" company was there last night to sing the praises of Club E...which actually created the opportunity for this company to exist, from a Club E meeting over 2 years ago. With testimonials like this, Club Entrepreneur has truly found its place as the premier supporter of entrepreneurship in America and I am so proud!
The rest of the meeting consisted of further updates with the announcement of the opening of our first Club E Offices (CEO) facility (fka eFactory) at our Tempe location. We introduced the new GMs, Sonia and Jim Graham, who will also bring their very successful "Start Up Now" workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com)to that location.
Finally, it was announced that Club E would formally enter into the world of bater, in a big way, by forming Club E Exchange, in conjunction with Arizona's largest and most established (23 years) trade company, Tradesource. We will be bringing in literally all 3500 local Club E members to transact barter exchanges between themselves and the thousand add'l members of Tradesource in a seamless and profitable manner to us all. Look for further information on this incredible development in future blogs.
We also came to the conclusion that Club E had quickly outstripped the ability to handle our ever-growing membership at our current location at Air Marketing, so we are spending the next couple of weeks securing a much larger facility that we can grow into.
The "Time of the Entrepreneur" is here and Club E is leading the way!
Best to all,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
http://www.abc15.com/content/financialsurvival/azstories/story/Valley-club-helps-entrepreneurs-grow-and-develop/zsf4xhy2b0yvHXdvD40D7A.cspx
The meeting began with outlining some of the numerous developments that resulted directly from Club E members' help with last month's presenter and his "green energy" company. Over 100 Club E members and their associates have met privately with the principals since last month and the results are nothing less than extraordinary. To wit:
One Club E member has located a multi-billion dollar manufacturer to ramp up productions of the "green energy" company's injectors.
Another Club E member has landed a $50MM commitment to build out a new facility for the company.
Yet another Club E member has produced a funding commitment for a $100MM line of credit with a "green energy fund," which will literally provide all of the capital resources that our presenter's company needs to ramp up it's amazing technologies and bring them to market.
One Club E member has brought the technical solutions for the "green energy" company's lab and workspace needs.
Finally, (for now) there have been numerous offers to invest in the company's upcoming financial offering, strategic alliance proposals and even licensing deals...all resulting from just one Club E meeting of interested entrepreneurs.
The principal of the "green energy" company was there last night to sing the praises of Club E...which actually created the opportunity for this company to exist, from a Club E meeting over 2 years ago. With testimonials like this, Club Entrepreneur has truly found its place as the premier supporter of entrepreneurship in America and I am so proud!
The rest of the meeting consisted of further updates with the announcement of the opening of our first Club E Offices (CEO) facility (fka eFactory) at our Tempe location. We introduced the new GMs, Sonia and Jim Graham, who will also bring their very successful "Start Up Now" workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com)to that location.
Finally, it was announced that Club E would formally enter into the world of bater, in a big way, by forming Club E Exchange, in conjunction with Arizona's largest and most established (23 years) trade company, Tradesource. We will be bringing in literally all 3500 local Club E members to transact barter exchanges between themselves and the thousand add'l members of Tradesource in a seamless and profitable manner to us all. Look for further information on this incredible development in future blogs.
We also came to the conclusion that Club E had quickly outstripped the ability to handle our ever-growing membership at our current location at Air Marketing, so we are spending the next couple of weeks securing a much larger facility that we can grow into.
The "Time of the Entrepreneur" is here and Club E is leading the way!
Best to all,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Never, ever quit! Club E's comeback revealed...
On September 2nd, 2009, Club Entrepreneur rose out of it's ashes like the mythical Phoenix and was reborn. It is only fitting that this occurred in the City of Phoenix, at the beautiful Air Marketing facility on University Drive. Club E started in February of 2007, with it's first meeting at the now defunct Grilled Expeditions restaurant in Tempe. Before that date, Club E has been an ASU student-based organization that was given birth at my original entrepreneurship class at Barrett Honors College the year before.
Like all start-ups, Club Entrepreneur had it's ups and downs, the victories and defeats. Through it all, our mission has been clear... even if it's seamless execution may not have been. We were an organization that practiced "open source entrepreneurship," for all those involved or interested in the self-reliance and camaraderie of entrepreneurship.
Starting with the original students from "Ready, Fire, Aim," our fledgling organization has grown to over 7,000 members from Arizona to California, Texas and Colorado. Beginning with monthly meetings of the first ground chapter in Tempe, Club E quickly spread to 7 more ground chapters here in Arizona alone. Our numbers peaked at an estimated 3500 and then I finally thought of a way to monetize my erstwhile altruistic effort with the eFactory model.
First, I brought the concept to the owner of a nearly empty commercial building in which temporarily housed my little group of original Club E advocates, all working as volunteers, until the day came that we figured out how to monetize our efforts. We pitched the landlord to help build out his Class B or C structure to entice tenants into reconfigured smaller spaces from the ranks of our Club E membership. He was all for filling up his building through our efforts but refused to put a single dime into refurbishing his structure. We decided to move on and I heard through the grapevine not too much later that the building was lost to foreclosure and that our foolish former landlord had to file for bankruptcy.
Through one of our Club E contacts, we moved lock, stock and barrel into a building that epitomized the dream of the eFactory model. Build out for the owner's many web-based enterprises, this 10,000' structure boasted the state-of-the-art furnishings and amenities, with workstations and private offices. There was even a fully equipped workout room and a cigar lounge to boot. I quickly made a deal with the landlord to inhabit the space with my own band of mighty Club E staffers and to fill up the existing space on the first floor with my Club E members as eFactory tenants. Then, the agreement was made for the landlord to build out the remaining space on the first floor so that we could benefit financially from the arrangement. You see, we agreed to remit 100% of the rents earned on the first Phase, before he agreed to build-out the second side, so we could actually make some money out of the deal.
We did our part and by hosting Club E events and workshops in the beautiful multi-million dollar building, we quickly filled up the first side with our members. Our landlord gladly took our pass through rent payments but neither honored his agreement to expand the space or even executed a lease with us, despite our continuing requests. Still, the model for the eFactory was proven now (if not profitable to us yet) and after our last Club E meeting there in January 2009, we decided to uproot once again and find a space that worked for us where the landlord "got it" and we could make an actual profit for our innovative ways.
The challenge was that we were still a start-up, with nothing but a several month run of proving our model and not making any money at it to boot. Club E's membership with it's monthly meetings and social network and web service at www.clubenetwork.com was to remain free (at my insistence) so prospective landlords remained skeptical. However, our efforts with Club E and the eFactory had caught some press and increasingly desperate landlords started to reach out to me to talk.
I started to visit with one commercial broker after another representing commercial building owners with ever increasing vacancies and kept running into the same roadblocks: 1) what is the eFactory's track record? 2) what security do you have to guarantee the lease?
What became increasingly ludicrous to these landlord demands was that while we actually offered a possible solution to some 10,000' of their ever increasing vacancies, these same landlords were scrambling to cover their own quickly escalating financial obligations to their own lenders and indeed faced insolvency themselves.
I remember one instance in which I was presented a Class B space in a building that had obviously seen better days (maybe in the 70s) and whose owner, a wealthy Northeastern family (purported to be a major stakeholder in the Mets baseball team)
insisted on lease guarantees from our little start-up before they would even begin to consider us as a tenant. I left them to their vacant building and wasn't surprised to read much later that this family lost over $100MM in "investments" with Bernie Madoff in his pyramid scam. I wonder what "guarantees" this family had with their friend, good old Bernie?
Out of the ever increasing press our Club E and eFactory efforts enjoyed, came an approach by one of America's largest commercial developers with over 70 shopping center complexes in the West. They courted us to install our eFactorys within their high traffic shopping centers and we structured a sweeping deal that would install 5 10,000' eFactory facilities with them over a two year period. This huge national company offered us rent concessions and tenant improvement dollars but their lenders insisted on us obtaining some kind of lease guarantees.
Well, a funny thing happened while I was searching for appropriate "lease guarantees" to satisfy the requirements of this offering company's lenders...
What occurred was the general meltdown of the American economy and in turn, the actual FDIC seizing of one of more of my prospective landlord's own lenders and the
eventual collapse of this landlord's own commercial empire. Looking back...I am so thankful that I didn't "qualify" for tenancies with these potential eFactory landlords and now, quite frankly, the shoe is on the other foot.
After about 6 months of shelving my ground chapter monthly meetings of Club E to commit my efforts to jump starting the eFactory efforts, Club E is back. We have a very strong eFactory location in Tempe, opening on October 1st. With the capable supervision of Sonia and Jim Graham, that and additional eFactory facilities will start and thrive, I am very sure. Sonia and Jim will continue their amazing efforts with Start Up Now workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com), which will continue to be held at our eFactory locales. There are several other eFactory locations in various stages of launch and for once, we are dictating the terms that we will accept from the landlords...as the commercial markets continue to spiral downward...much like the residential market did (and is doing) here in Phoenix.
By relaunching Club E's chapter meetings, first at our Phoenix location at Air Marketing and then across the Valley and beyond, we are literally going back to our roots and will grow back bigger and stronger than we were before.
Along the alliterations of Club E, we've shed several entire teams of people that have (or purported to have) helped in our efforts. From original team of five students from "Ready, Fire, Aim," only one remains-who has steadfastly remained loyal despite the reversals of fortune and downright barbed attacks I've suffered through this process. Of the other four original Club E student staff members, I was gladdened to see one show up to September's event and coincidentally he is now employed by the same Club E-inspired enterprise, whose principal was our speaker at the same event. Small world, eh?
One former so-called Club E team member, disenchanted by the set-backs and delays to being able to be compensated for his efforts, happened to be our former webmaster. Well, when he abruptly departed without notice a couple of months ago, he maliciously took down and hijacked all of our web sites and domain names, even canceling our email accounts, losing over 17,000 saved emails in my own account. He would not release any of our content or sites until I paid a ridiculous $30,000 fee to get it back-something that was never agreed upon between us at any point btw. Obviously, I was in no position to pay this "ransom" and indeed, I had been personally financially weakened by the $500,000 plus I had put into Club E since started. Likewise, I would NEVER submit to outright blackmail, so we've been toughing it out and only now are creating our own new web site, with lessons learned from the actions of the dirt bag former webmaster. I am now seeking legal compensation against him through the efforts of one of Club E's new members, one of the top litigation experts in the area.
Anyway, the lessons learned (and still coming) from my absolute dedication to the mission of making Club Entrepreneur the powerhouse and resource to America's entrepreneurs, remains my focus. By way of this blog, I reach out to all of you out there to join our ranks and support our mission.
While our new state-of-the-art site is being created, please visit our web resource and social network at www.clubenetwork.com (which was out of reach by the malicious dirt bag designer) and if you are in the Phoenix area, please join up at http://www.meetup.com/clubechapters/...it's all free and will remain so.
September 2nd's event was so powerful a rebirth of Club E's vision and you can see attendee comments and even some pictures from that event at http://www.meetup.com/clubechapters/. Also, if you do sign up at our site on Meetup.com with the hundreds of members that already have, we can invite you to our upcoming monthly events that will be held each first Wednesday going forward.
Club E is only as strong as it's membership of like-minded entrepreneurs. We are proud of our diversity but the one thing we all have in common is that we will, never, ever quit!
Come join the ranks of the greatest group of entrepreneurs on the planet...CLUB ENTREPRENEUR.
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
peterjburns3@gmail.com
Like all start-ups, Club Entrepreneur had it's ups and downs, the victories and defeats. Through it all, our mission has been clear... even if it's seamless execution may not have been. We were an organization that practiced "open source entrepreneurship," for all those involved or interested in the self-reliance and camaraderie of entrepreneurship.
Starting with the original students from "Ready, Fire, Aim," our fledgling organization has grown to over 7,000 members from Arizona to California, Texas and Colorado. Beginning with monthly meetings of the first ground chapter in Tempe, Club E quickly spread to 7 more ground chapters here in Arizona alone. Our numbers peaked at an estimated 3500 and then I finally thought of a way to monetize my erstwhile altruistic effort with the eFactory model.
First, I brought the concept to the owner of a nearly empty commercial building in which temporarily housed my little group of original Club E advocates, all working as volunteers, until the day came that we figured out how to monetize our efforts. We pitched the landlord to help build out his Class B or C structure to entice tenants into reconfigured smaller spaces from the ranks of our Club E membership. He was all for filling up his building through our efforts but refused to put a single dime into refurbishing his structure. We decided to move on and I heard through the grapevine not too much later that the building was lost to foreclosure and that our foolish former landlord had to file for bankruptcy.
Through one of our Club E contacts, we moved lock, stock and barrel into a building that epitomized the dream of the eFactory model. Build out for the owner's many web-based enterprises, this 10,000' structure boasted the state-of-the-art furnishings and amenities, with workstations and private offices. There was even a fully equipped workout room and a cigar lounge to boot. I quickly made a deal with the landlord to inhabit the space with my own band of mighty Club E staffers and to fill up the existing space on the first floor with my Club E members as eFactory tenants. Then, the agreement was made for the landlord to build out the remaining space on the first floor so that we could benefit financially from the arrangement. You see, we agreed to remit 100% of the rents earned on the first Phase, before he agreed to build-out the second side, so we could actually make some money out of the deal.
We did our part and by hosting Club E events and workshops in the beautiful multi-million dollar building, we quickly filled up the first side with our members. Our landlord gladly took our pass through rent payments but neither honored his agreement to expand the space or even executed a lease with us, despite our continuing requests. Still, the model for the eFactory was proven now (if not profitable to us yet) and after our last Club E meeting there in January 2009, we decided to uproot once again and find a space that worked for us where the landlord "got it" and we could make an actual profit for our innovative ways.
The challenge was that we were still a start-up, with nothing but a several month run of proving our model and not making any money at it to boot. Club E's membership with it's monthly meetings and social network and web service at www.clubenetwork.com was to remain free (at my insistence) so prospective landlords remained skeptical. However, our efforts with Club E and the eFactory had caught some press and increasingly desperate landlords started to reach out to me to talk.
I started to visit with one commercial broker after another representing commercial building owners with ever increasing vacancies and kept running into the same roadblocks: 1) what is the eFactory's track record? 2) what security do you have to guarantee the lease?
What became increasingly ludicrous to these landlord demands was that while we actually offered a possible solution to some 10,000' of their ever increasing vacancies, these same landlords were scrambling to cover their own quickly escalating financial obligations to their own lenders and indeed faced insolvency themselves.
I remember one instance in which I was presented a Class B space in a building that had obviously seen better days (maybe in the 70s) and whose owner, a wealthy Northeastern family (purported to be a major stakeholder in the Mets baseball team)
insisted on lease guarantees from our little start-up before they would even begin to consider us as a tenant. I left them to their vacant building and wasn't surprised to read much later that this family lost over $100MM in "investments" with Bernie Madoff in his pyramid scam. I wonder what "guarantees" this family had with their friend, good old Bernie?
Out of the ever increasing press our Club E and eFactory efforts enjoyed, came an approach by one of America's largest commercial developers with over 70 shopping center complexes in the West. They courted us to install our eFactorys within their high traffic shopping centers and we structured a sweeping deal that would install 5 10,000' eFactory facilities with them over a two year period. This huge national company offered us rent concessions and tenant improvement dollars but their lenders insisted on us obtaining some kind of lease guarantees.
Well, a funny thing happened while I was searching for appropriate "lease guarantees" to satisfy the requirements of this offering company's lenders...
What occurred was the general meltdown of the American economy and in turn, the actual FDIC seizing of one of more of my prospective landlord's own lenders and the
eventual collapse of this landlord's own commercial empire. Looking back...I am so thankful that I didn't "qualify" for tenancies with these potential eFactory landlords and now, quite frankly, the shoe is on the other foot.
After about 6 months of shelving my ground chapter monthly meetings of Club E to commit my efforts to jump starting the eFactory efforts, Club E is back. We have a very strong eFactory location in Tempe, opening on October 1st. With the capable supervision of Sonia and Jim Graham, that and additional eFactory facilities will start and thrive, I am very sure. Sonia and Jim will continue their amazing efforts with Start Up Now workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com), which will continue to be held at our eFactory locales. There are several other eFactory locations in various stages of launch and for once, we are dictating the terms that we will accept from the landlords...as the commercial markets continue to spiral downward...much like the residential market did (and is doing) here in Phoenix.
By relaunching Club E's chapter meetings, first at our Phoenix location at Air Marketing and then across the Valley and beyond, we are literally going back to our roots and will grow back bigger and stronger than we were before.
Along the alliterations of Club E, we've shed several entire teams of people that have (or purported to have) helped in our efforts. From original team of five students from "Ready, Fire, Aim," only one remains-who has steadfastly remained loyal despite the reversals of fortune and downright barbed attacks I've suffered through this process. Of the other four original Club E student staff members, I was gladdened to see one show up to September's event and coincidentally he is now employed by the same Club E-inspired enterprise, whose principal was our speaker at the same event. Small world, eh?
One former so-called Club E team member, disenchanted by the set-backs and delays to being able to be compensated for his efforts, happened to be our former webmaster. Well, when he abruptly departed without notice a couple of months ago, he maliciously took down and hijacked all of our web sites and domain names, even canceling our email accounts, losing over 17,000 saved emails in my own account. He would not release any of our content or sites until I paid a ridiculous $30,000 fee to get it back-something that was never agreed upon between us at any point btw. Obviously, I was in no position to pay this "ransom" and indeed, I had been personally financially weakened by the $500,000 plus I had put into Club E since started. Likewise, I would NEVER submit to outright blackmail, so we've been toughing it out and only now are creating our own new web site, with lessons learned from the actions of the dirt bag former webmaster. I am now seeking legal compensation against him through the efforts of one of Club E's new members, one of the top litigation experts in the area.
Anyway, the lessons learned (and still coming) from my absolute dedication to the mission of making Club Entrepreneur the powerhouse and resource to America's entrepreneurs, remains my focus. By way of this blog, I reach out to all of you out there to join our ranks and support our mission.
While our new state-of-the-art site is being created, please visit our web resource and social network at www.clubenetwork.com (which was out of reach by the malicious dirt bag designer) and if you are in the Phoenix area, please join up at http://www.meetup.com/clubechapters/...it's all free and will remain so.
September 2nd's event was so powerful a rebirth of Club E's vision and you can see attendee comments and even some pictures from that event at http://www.meetup.com/clubechapters/. Also, if you do sign up at our site on Meetup.com with the hundreds of members that already have, we can invite you to our upcoming monthly events that will be held each first Wednesday going forward.
Club E is only as strong as it's membership of like-minded entrepreneurs. We are proud of our diversity but the one thing we all have in common is that we will, never, ever quit!
Come join the ranks of the greatest group of entrepreneurs on the planet...CLUB ENTREPRENEUR.
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
peterjburns3@gmail.com
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Club Entrepreneur Re-Born!
Club E started as a class project in my entrepreneurship class, "Ready, Fire, Aim" at the Barrett Honors College (ASU) around two or three years ago. My first 19 students were Club E's original members and since then our little class project has grown to over 3500 local Arizona members. There are 4000 plus other members on our online social network (www.clubenetwork.com) and in other out-of-state chapters.
Six months ago, we held our last monthly meeting at our prototype eFactory in N. Phoenix. Since then, I've been focusing on expanding that model and we now have eFactorys being opened in a number of other locations, including Tempe, Scottsdale and Phoenix. The monthly chapter meetings are now about to start back up at our new state-of-the art headquarters located at Air Marketing at 3419 E. University Drive, Phoenix. On September 2nd at 5:30 PM around 150 or more Club E members, two local Mayors and a host of others will be helping us celebrate the re-birth of Club Entrepreneur!
You can learn more about Club Entrepreneur and register for the event, as well as be notified of future monthly meetings (first Wednesday each month) by clicking on the link below.
http://www.meetup.com/clubechapters/
What makes this event especially powerful is that Ken Losch, mega-developer and now "green energy" pioneer with Advanced Green Technologies, will be our speaker. In my last blog (see link below), I shared how two Club E members, Roy McCallister and Richard Otto linked together and then were introduced to Ken for his business and financial help and created what promises to be "game changing" innovations.
http://peterjburns.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-change-world-and-make-trillion.html
If you are available to join us on September 2nd at 5:30 PM at our new headquarters, come join us. There will be appetizers and like all Club E events, the only cost is your time.
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Club Entrepreneur
Institute for Entrepreneurship
eFactory
Six months ago, we held our last monthly meeting at our prototype eFactory in N. Phoenix. Since then, I've been focusing on expanding that model and we now have eFactorys being opened in a number of other locations, including Tempe, Scottsdale and Phoenix. The monthly chapter meetings are now about to start back up at our new state-of-the art headquarters located at Air Marketing at 3419 E. University Drive, Phoenix. On September 2nd at 5:30 PM around 150 or more Club E members, two local Mayors and a host of others will be helping us celebrate the re-birth of Club Entrepreneur!
You can learn more about Club Entrepreneur and register for the event, as well as be notified of future monthly meetings (first Wednesday each month) by clicking on the link below.
http://www.meetup.com/clubechapters/
What makes this event especially powerful is that Ken Losch, mega-developer and now "green energy" pioneer with Advanced Green Technologies, will be our speaker. In my last blog (see link below), I shared how two Club E members, Roy McCallister and Richard Otto linked together and then were introduced to Ken for his business and financial help and created what promises to be "game changing" innovations.
http://peterjburns.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-change-world-and-make-trillion.html
If you are available to join us on September 2nd at 5:30 PM at our new headquarters, come join us. There will be appetizers and like all Club E events, the only cost is your time.
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Club Entrepreneur
Institute for Entrepreneurship
eFactory
Thursday, June 4, 2009
How to Change the World and Make a Trillion Dollars
Well, if I ever needed THE prime example of how Club E's mission of "open source entrepreneurship" works...I need look no further than an introduction made over a year and a half ago at our Tempe (AZ) chapter meeting.
In that meeting, our host of the facility happened to be our featured speaker and in the Club Entrepreneur audience, were two members that had been collaborating on technology that promised to literally change the world. One member, an off the charts scientist, has been responsible for over 270 technologies derived from 66 patents and patent pendings in the alternate energy field. Indeed, this visionary had been driving his own hydrogen-powered automobile for over 25 years!
My dear friend and fellow Club E member, who had worked with me on the curriculum and structure of what turned out to become the Nation's first College of Entrepreneurship, had been working diligently with our scientist member for some time. My friend's conclusion was definitive...the technology that had been developed and proven could well become the answer to first America's and then the world's energy crises. All he needed now was the money and skilled business management to take these technologies to market.
The opportunity to make this happen occurred at the Club E meeting at our Tempe location. Part of our guest speaker's talk to our collective group that evening included his personal belief in diversifying his portfolio (he was heavily vested in commercial real estate development) and doing things for the greater good. My friend took our speaker's message to heart and went right up to him at the end of his talk. A meeting between them and the scientist was arranged and the rest, they say is history.
Now, of course it wasn't that easy. Our host is a very practical man and although quite wealthy, he didn't get there by not doing his due diligence. Over the course of literally months of meetings together and studying the opportunity brought to him, a decision was made to join forces and a $3 million investment was offered and accepted. Thus began a year and a half of stealth operations that included the creation of working prototypes and extensive intellectual property protection on the myriad of technologies created and constantly being created by the resident genius.
A call was received by the financier out of the blue about a month ago. He wanted me to meet with him and his core team at one of both of our favorite haunts, La Grand Orange in Phoenix. That meeting proved to be very, very interesting.
A great deal had occurred since that Club E introduction a year and a half ago. The commercial markets had all but collapsed and our former real estate billionaire was not one any longer, through no fault of his own. He openly shared that his mid eight figure net income had become an even higher eight figure loss in the past year. He also freely admitted that had he not invested the $3 million when he did, he would never have it is in the current market to do so.
What was shared with me in the actualized vision complete with seeing a working prototype with my own eyes was nothing short of amazing. I asked what I could do to help and was told in quick fashion that recognizing my own "genius" of putting people together, I could help with the following:
1) Introduction to someone who was well-connected and would make a credible and
believable spokesperson for the new energy company.
2) Introduction to the highest level of the automobile industry.
3) Access to financial resources for second and subsequent rounds of funding.
4) Introduction to T. Boone Pickens.
By later on that same afternoon, I had connected my friend and his group with the ultimate connector and spokesperson, who is now happily employed at the energy company and producing great results. Next, I set up them up with my connection who is firmly entrenched in the highest levels of Detroit's automobile industry. That same individual, operates a $150 million alternate energy fund and is also wired into numerous potential funding sources for this enormous project. Finally, I managed to find direct access to T. Boone Pickens through a friend in Texas. It turns out that the energy company had access to Mr. Pickens through another source and actually met with him on his wind power efforts, which is well complemented by several of the energy company's innovations in this field.
Further conversation revealed that what I was being shown was just the tip of the iceberg and arrangements were made for me to visit their headquarters to be taken through the particulars of the sweeping energy initiatives that had been fine-tuned over the past eighteen months.
What I learned during my first and subsequent meetings with this group of Alternate Energy pioneers included but was not nearly limited to:
A working prototype that took solar energy and converted it to hydrogen, through a low cost carbon fuel cell, which then converted it to energy that turned to wind power and then to electric power. One of the many innovations of this product was the elimination of the prohibitive cost of $91 per gram for platinum that was no longer required for the fuel cell in order to convert solar energy to hydrogen...a major accomplishment because the carbon fuel cell was now virtually free.
Injectors that can convert every car on the planet (some 800,000,000 vehicles) to accept literally any type of fuel (hydrogen, bio diesel, vegetable oil, kerosene, and on and on) to run the automobiles' combustion engines. What is truly amazing is that these injectors can be installed in any car in the time it would take to change the oil.
A power source the size of a single car parking space that is powered by the garbage disposal and other waste matter from a building 30 stories tall which would provide 100% of its electric needs...completely off the grid. The larger the power source units are built, the more buildings that can be supported...completely off the power grid and powered by its own waste.
One of the most intriguing and far reaching inventions was the conversion of the "black water" that congeals at the depths below each of our country's 14,000 landfills that when converted to energy from the inventor's process can single handedly eliminate up to 25% of this country's dependence on foreign oil.
Sixty six patents and patent pendings producing 270 (and counting) technologies...have been the fruits of the association of this uber-brilliant inventor and the team of dedicated Alternate Energy entrepreneurs. There is literally no end in sight of what this group can accomplish and what they are doing will literally change the face of our world.
Quickly, I came to realize that the rapid shuttering of America's automobile manufacturing facilities could be reopened and retooled to install the conversion kits that will allow these cars to operate on literally any fuel available.
Next, I surmised that teams of start-up entrepreneurs could be tasked with monetizing the various technologies that were springing up from this group's work, perhaps operating on a license or sub-license agreements. With the thousands (and growing) members of our own organization (www.clubenetwork.com) available to help undertake these projects, many new businesses could be created, employing large numbers of people and creating products that could help us all.
Additionally, scores and scores of laid off workers could be fashioned into start-up support teams to implement new businesses created from these hundreds of new technologies...enabled by the skill sets learned from the ever growing Start Up Now workshop program (www.startupnowworkshops.com)
In all my years of entrepreneurship, I have never seen one project (the Alternate Energy Company) with so many applications that make so much money and change the world for the better. Through discussions with the core team, it has been conservatively estimated that the collective financial impact of the Alternate Energy Company's revenue will exceed over a Trillion dollars!
Needless to say, if ever there was a prime example of the power of Club E and the connective power of "Open Source Entrepreneurship"...this is certainly it.
Now it's time to get to work, help make a trillion dollars and save the world. All part of the entrepreneur's day at the office...
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Club Entrepreneur (www.clubenetwork.com)
eFactory (www.clubefactory.com)
College of Entrepreneurship (www.clubefactoryedu.com)
"We Are America's Bailout" (www.weareamericasbailout.com)
In that meeting, our host of the facility happened to be our featured speaker and in the Club Entrepreneur audience, were two members that had been collaborating on technology that promised to literally change the world. One member, an off the charts scientist, has been responsible for over 270 technologies derived from 66 patents and patent pendings in the alternate energy field. Indeed, this visionary had been driving his own hydrogen-powered automobile for over 25 years!
My dear friend and fellow Club E member, who had worked with me on the curriculum and structure of what turned out to become the Nation's first College of Entrepreneurship, had been working diligently with our scientist member for some time. My friend's conclusion was definitive...the technology that had been developed and proven could well become the answer to first America's and then the world's energy crises. All he needed now was the money and skilled business management to take these technologies to market.
The opportunity to make this happen occurred at the Club E meeting at our Tempe location. Part of our guest speaker's talk to our collective group that evening included his personal belief in diversifying his portfolio (he was heavily vested in commercial real estate development) and doing things for the greater good. My friend took our speaker's message to heart and went right up to him at the end of his talk. A meeting between them and the scientist was arranged and the rest, they say is history.
Now, of course it wasn't that easy. Our host is a very practical man and although quite wealthy, he didn't get there by not doing his due diligence. Over the course of literally months of meetings together and studying the opportunity brought to him, a decision was made to join forces and a $3 million investment was offered and accepted. Thus began a year and a half of stealth operations that included the creation of working prototypes and extensive intellectual property protection on the myriad of technologies created and constantly being created by the resident genius.
A call was received by the financier out of the blue about a month ago. He wanted me to meet with him and his core team at one of both of our favorite haunts, La Grand Orange in Phoenix. That meeting proved to be very, very interesting.
A great deal had occurred since that Club E introduction a year and a half ago. The commercial markets had all but collapsed and our former real estate billionaire was not one any longer, through no fault of his own. He openly shared that his mid eight figure net income had become an even higher eight figure loss in the past year. He also freely admitted that had he not invested the $3 million when he did, he would never have it is in the current market to do so.
What was shared with me in the actualized vision complete with seeing a working prototype with my own eyes was nothing short of amazing. I asked what I could do to help and was told in quick fashion that recognizing my own "genius" of putting people together, I could help with the following:
1) Introduction to someone who was well-connected and would make a credible and
believable spokesperson for the new energy company.
2) Introduction to the highest level of the automobile industry.
3) Access to financial resources for second and subsequent rounds of funding.
4) Introduction to T. Boone Pickens.
By later on that same afternoon, I had connected my friend and his group with the ultimate connector and spokesperson, who is now happily employed at the energy company and producing great results. Next, I set up them up with my connection who is firmly entrenched in the highest levels of Detroit's automobile industry. That same individual, operates a $150 million alternate energy fund and is also wired into numerous potential funding sources for this enormous project. Finally, I managed to find direct access to T. Boone Pickens through a friend in Texas. It turns out that the energy company had access to Mr. Pickens through another source and actually met with him on his wind power efforts, which is well complemented by several of the energy company's innovations in this field.
Further conversation revealed that what I was being shown was just the tip of the iceberg and arrangements were made for me to visit their headquarters to be taken through the particulars of the sweeping energy initiatives that had been fine-tuned over the past eighteen months.
What I learned during my first and subsequent meetings with this group of Alternate Energy pioneers included but was not nearly limited to:
A working prototype that took solar energy and converted it to hydrogen, through a low cost carbon fuel cell, which then converted it to energy that turned to wind power and then to electric power. One of the many innovations of this product was the elimination of the prohibitive cost of $91 per gram for platinum that was no longer required for the fuel cell in order to convert solar energy to hydrogen...a major accomplishment because the carbon fuel cell was now virtually free.
Injectors that can convert every car on the planet (some 800,000,000 vehicles) to accept literally any type of fuel (hydrogen, bio diesel, vegetable oil, kerosene, and on and on) to run the automobiles' combustion engines. What is truly amazing is that these injectors can be installed in any car in the time it would take to change the oil.
A power source the size of a single car parking space that is powered by the garbage disposal and other waste matter from a building 30 stories tall which would provide 100% of its electric needs...completely off the grid. The larger the power source units are built, the more buildings that can be supported...completely off the power grid and powered by its own waste.
One of the most intriguing and far reaching inventions was the conversion of the "black water" that congeals at the depths below each of our country's 14,000 landfills that when converted to energy from the inventor's process can single handedly eliminate up to 25% of this country's dependence on foreign oil.
Sixty six patents and patent pendings producing 270 (and counting) technologies...have been the fruits of the association of this uber-brilliant inventor and the team of dedicated Alternate Energy entrepreneurs. There is literally no end in sight of what this group can accomplish and what they are doing will literally change the face of our world.
Quickly, I came to realize that the rapid shuttering of America's automobile manufacturing facilities could be reopened and retooled to install the conversion kits that will allow these cars to operate on literally any fuel available.
Next, I surmised that teams of start-up entrepreneurs could be tasked with monetizing the various technologies that were springing up from this group's work, perhaps operating on a license or sub-license agreements. With the thousands (and growing) members of our own organization (www.clubenetwork.com) available to help undertake these projects, many new businesses could be created, employing large numbers of people and creating products that could help us all.
Additionally, scores and scores of laid off workers could be fashioned into start-up support teams to implement new businesses created from these hundreds of new technologies...enabled by the skill sets learned from the ever growing Start Up Now workshop program (www.startupnowworkshops.com)
In all my years of entrepreneurship, I have never seen one project (the Alternate Energy Company) with so many applications that make so much money and change the world for the better. Through discussions with the core team, it has been conservatively estimated that the collective financial impact of the Alternate Energy Company's revenue will exceed over a Trillion dollars!
Needless to say, if ever there was a prime example of the power of Club E and the connective power of "Open Source Entrepreneurship"...this is certainly it.
Now it's time to get to work, help make a trillion dollars and save the world. All part of the entrepreneur's day at the office...
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Club Entrepreneur (www.clubenetwork.com)
eFactory (www.clubefactory.com)
College of Entrepreneurship (www.clubefactoryedu.com)
"We Are America's Bailout" (www.weareamericasbailout.com)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Peter Burns and Club E thank Mayor Gordon of Phoenix...
Today I had the honor of visiting with Mayor Gordon of the City of Phoenix, his Deputy Chief of Staff and the Deputy Directors of both the Downtown Development Office and the Small Business Division of the Economic Development Department. My good friend, Denise Meredith, former Executive Director of the Bureau of Land Management and now a start-up entrepreneur herself and Toby Lindemann, one of my first students from Barret Honors College (ASU) and a colleague at Club E and the eFactory were also in attendance.
The purpose of our meeting was to share our vision with the City of Phoenix, how we felt that our entrepreneurial initiatives with Club Entrepreneur (www.clubenetwork.com), the StartUp Now workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com), the eFactory (www.clubefactory.com) and our entrepreneurial education component (www.clubefactoryedu.com) could best interact with the City in a cohesive and cooperative effort.
The topics of conversation in our allotted half hour session covered the gamut, from creating a pipeline of laid off workers passing through the city's unemployment outsourcing department at the rate of some 18,000 per month, into the alternative of business ownership through our StartUp Now workshops....to discussions centered around our intention to open up a chapter of Club Entrepreneur and a brand new eFactory on the planned acquisition of nearly an entire city block on 3rd Street and Roosevelt...smack in the middle of downtown Phoenix.
Other subjects quickly covered, involved our wish to expedite certain licensing requests for our new projects through the processes facilitated through an Advocacy Group introduced to us by the City. Likewise, a discussion was had on Club Entrepreneur's interest in tackling some of amazing technologies in the alternate energy field, recently offered by a prolific inventor, which could be developed and monetized through the efforts of skilled members selected from within the ranks of the Club E membership. All of these new businesses could create new employment and tax revenue for the City.
Future plans of developing the 66,000' vacant parcel attached to the property that will house our nearly 9,000' eFactory, currently referred to as "Canvas," will hopefully mirror our recent project in the City of Mesa, where the eFactory is soon to settle in as both a tenant and joint venture partner of a 56,000' five story building in the heart of the revitalized Main Street area. It is our hope to develop a similar structure in Downtown Phoenix, a five story state-of-the-art eFactory facility that would incubate and support scores of successful new businesses to be launched throughout the City of Phoenix. A model of this vision can be seen at www.weareamericasbailout.com in the most recent videos on that site.
We covered a lot of ground, very quickly and I can happily report that by all indications, the Mayor thoroughly endorsed our efforts and vision and told me that we were in the best of all possible hands with Deputy Director Michelle Pierson and Deputy Director Jason Harris. I am particularly thankful for Deputy Chief of Staff, Marchelle Franklin, for facilitating this meeting together and look forward to working with her on future meetings.
Since moving to the Phoenix area from back East, over seven years ago now, I have been amazed at the opportunities that abound in this corner of the "Wild West." I can honestly say that in my 33 years as an entrepreneur, I have never been in an area that offers more in the way of pure entrepreneurial spirit and a climate of the "can do" attitude. To someone like me, this is a match made in heaven.
My little band of fearless colleagues and I at Club E are very excited to be opening up a brand new chapter of our organization in Downtown Phoenix and expanding our eFactory concept into the property at 3rd Street and Roosevelt. We hope to establish another successful branch of our StartUp Now workshops to help the unemployed of Phoenix learn to become self reliant by starting their own companies and we look forward to a very productive and mutually beneficial collaboration with the City of Phoenix.
Thank you Mayor Gordon and your enthusiastic staff for this opportunity!
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
The purpose of our meeting was to share our vision with the City of Phoenix, how we felt that our entrepreneurial initiatives with Club Entrepreneur (www.clubenetwork.com), the StartUp Now workshops (www.startupnowworkshops.com), the eFactory (www.clubefactory.com) and our entrepreneurial education component (www.clubefactoryedu.com) could best interact with the City in a cohesive and cooperative effort.
The topics of conversation in our allotted half hour session covered the gamut, from creating a pipeline of laid off workers passing through the city's unemployment outsourcing department at the rate of some 18,000 per month, into the alternative of business ownership through our StartUp Now workshops....to discussions centered around our intention to open up a chapter of Club Entrepreneur and a brand new eFactory on the planned acquisition of nearly an entire city block on 3rd Street and Roosevelt...smack in the middle of downtown Phoenix.
Other subjects quickly covered, involved our wish to expedite certain licensing requests for our new projects through the processes facilitated through an Advocacy Group introduced to us by the City. Likewise, a discussion was had on Club Entrepreneur's interest in tackling some of amazing technologies in the alternate energy field, recently offered by a prolific inventor, which could be developed and monetized through the efforts of skilled members selected from within the ranks of the Club E membership. All of these new businesses could create new employment and tax revenue for the City.
Future plans of developing the 66,000' vacant parcel attached to the property that will house our nearly 9,000' eFactory, currently referred to as "Canvas," will hopefully mirror our recent project in the City of Mesa, where the eFactory is soon to settle in as both a tenant and joint venture partner of a 56,000' five story building in the heart of the revitalized Main Street area. It is our hope to develop a similar structure in Downtown Phoenix, a five story state-of-the-art eFactory facility that would incubate and support scores of successful new businesses to be launched throughout the City of Phoenix. A model of this vision can be seen at www.weareamericasbailout.com in the most recent videos on that site.
We covered a lot of ground, very quickly and I can happily report that by all indications, the Mayor thoroughly endorsed our efforts and vision and told me that we were in the best of all possible hands with Deputy Director Michelle Pierson and Deputy Director Jason Harris. I am particularly thankful for Deputy Chief of Staff, Marchelle Franklin, for facilitating this meeting together and look forward to working with her on future meetings.
Since moving to the Phoenix area from back East, over seven years ago now, I have been amazed at the opportunities that abound in this corner of the "Wild West." I can honestly say that in my 33 years as an entrepreneur, I have never been in an area that offers more in the way of pure entrepreneurial spirit and a climate of the "can do" attitude. To someone like me, this is a match made in heaven.
My little band of fearless colleagues and I at Club E are very excited to be opening up a brand new chapter of our organization in Downtown Phoenix and expanding our eFactory concept into the property at 3rd Street and Roosevelt. We hope to establish another successful branch of our StartUp Now workshops to help the unemployed of Phoenix learn to become self reliant by starting their own companies and we look forward to a very productive and mutually beneficial collaboration with the City of Phoenix.
Thank you Mayor Gordon and your enthusiastic staff for this opportunity!
Best regards,
Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Mentorship At It's Highest Level
VALLEY BUSINESS OWNERS GET ADVICE AND MINGLE WITH COLLECTION OF C-LEVEL EXECUTIVES
National Notables Attend Valley Advisory Group’s First Membership Social Event
March, 2009 ( Paradise Valley, AZ) -- Small and Big business CEOs from around Arizona gathered in Paradise Valley to meet with the Valley Advisory Group (VAG), an organization made of numerous senior level executives who help small to mid-size businesses assess their strength and weaknesses and determine the proper course for growth.
“The strength of America was built on the success of small business owners,” said Kevin Palmer, founding member of the Valley Advisory Group “It is the success of those businesses that gives hope to every American that prosperity is still possible in a day and age when many feel economically disenfranchised,” Palmer noted.
The Valley Advisory Group helps Arizona-based businesses achieve their next stage of growth by capitalizing on the real experiences of the senior members of this diversified group.
“We are mentors for small to mid-size business owners,” said Peter J. Burns, III, president of the Valley Advisory Group. “A business owner presents his model and talks about his challenges and goals and our senior executives offer their insight and talents as to how this owner can move to the next level.”
These high-level business volunteers recently staged their first membership event designed to showcase VAG to potential new members who have a specific interest in helping small businesses grow. More than 150 top business leaders attended including:
· Sue Malone, member of President Obama's White House Small Business Transition Team and the 2nd largest SBA lender in the country
· Ingrid Vanderveldt, Host MSNBC "American Made" Television Show, CEO of Club E Network
· Stanley Friedman, retired Partner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers & current adjunct Professor of Law at Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University
· Richard Sonstelie, former Chairman of Puget Sound Energy
· Robert Stauth, former CEO of Fleming Foods.
Other notables included Phoenix City Council member Maria Baier, Scottsdale City Council member, Suzanne Klapp and former Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross.
Privada, 51-home luxury community, hosted the event which was catered by Four Seasons Resort. Peter Burger and Jennifer Patterson of Monarch Privada Development, the community’s builder, were also in attendance.
“We are delighted to host Valley Advisory Group at our model home. We applaud the group’s role in helping emerging businesses expand in Arizona, stimulating the State’s economy, employment and tax base,” said Burger.
VAG membership offers broad experience in business strategy and planning; capital finance and financial operations; logistics and distribution; human resources; information systems and technology; international business; legal and intellectual property; marketing and sales; publishing; operations management.
For more information: Valley Advisory Group – www.ValleyAdvisoryGroup.com
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Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Club Entrepreneur www.clubenetwork.com
Institute for Entrepreneurship www.clubefactoryedu.com
eFactory www.clubefactory.com
602 725 1584
National Notables Attend Valley Advisory Group’s First Membership Social Event
March, 2009 ( Paradise Valley, AZ) -- Small and Big business CEOs from around Arizona gathered in Paradise Valley to meet with the Valley Advisory Group (VAG), an organization made of numerous senior level executives who help small to mid-size businesses assess their strength and weaknesses and determine the proper course for growth.
“The strength of America was built on the success of small business owners,” said Kevin Palmer, founding member of the Valley Advisory Group “It is the success of those businesses that gives hope to every American that prosperity is still possible in a day and age when many feel economically disenfranchised,” Palmer noted.
The Valley Advisory Group helps Arizona-based businesses achieve their next stage of growth by capitalizing on the real experiences of the senior members of this diversified group.
“We are mentors for small to mid-size business owners,” said Peter J. Burns, III, president of the Valley Advisory Group. “A business owner presents his model and talks about his challenges and goals and our senior executives offer their insight and talents as to how this owner can move to the next level.”
These high-level business volunteers recently staged their first membership event designed to showcase VAG to potential new members who have a specific interest in helping small businesses grow. More than 150 top business leaders attended including:
· Sue Malone, member of President Obama's White House Small Business Transition Team and the 2nd largest SBA lender in the country
· Ingrid Vanderveldt, Host MSNBC "American Made" Television Show, CEO of Club E Network
· Stanley Friedman, retired Partner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers & current adjunct Professor of Law at Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University
· Richard Sonstelie, former Chairman of Puget Sound Energy
· Robert Stauth, former CEO of Fleming Foods.
Other notables included Phoenix City Council member Maria Baier, Scottsdale City Council member, Suzanne Klapp and former Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross.
Privada, 51-home luxury community, hosted the event which was catered by Four Seasons Resort. Peter Burger and Jennifer Patterson of Monarch Privada Development, the community’s builder, were also in attendance.
“We are delighted to host Valley Advisory Group at our model home. We applaud the group’s role in helping emerging businesses expand in Arizona, stimulating the State’s economy, employment and tax base,” said Burger.
VAG membership offers broad experience in business strategy and planning; capital finance and financial operations; logistics and distribution; human resources; information systems and technology; international business; legal and intellectual property; marketing and sales; publishing; operations management.
For more information: Valley Advisory Group – www.ValleyAdvisoryGroup.com
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Peter J. Burns, III
Founder
Club Entrepreneur www.clubenetwork.com
Institute for Entrepreneurship www.clubefactoryedu.com
eFactory www.clubefactory.com
602 725 1584
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