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You want to start a business. You have a skill or knowledge to deliver a product or service to customers. But you lack the knowledge or experience for creating and managing your...

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Accounting & Cash Flow; Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Marketing, Public Relations & Sales; Non-Profit; Operations; Strategy & Planning

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Other Services (except public admin.); Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services; Retail Trade

Food and Beverage Director for hotel operations for 8 years Regional Manager for restaurant company encompassed 8 restaurants for 8 years District Manager for Aramark in Contract...

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Accounting & Cash Flow; Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Operations

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Accommodation & Food Services; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services

Senior management positions in several diverse industries including steel fabrication, aircraft manufacturing, transit rail car assembly, food service equipment, and as CEO in...

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Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Operations; Product Development & Manufacturing; Strategy & Planning

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Manufacturing; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services

All of us have benefited from help given unselfishly by others, and it’s only natural to want to “give back” some of our time and talent.

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Accounting & Cash Flow

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Finance & Insurance

Retired as Division Manager of Hughes Aircraft Co. after managing a high technology microcircuit design and manufacturing plant; managed the Optics Laboratory earlier; Vice...

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Product Development & Manufacturing; Technology

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services

Sales compensation development CRM Sales Team Building Business Insurance Start-Up mentoring Key Employee/Buy Sell International Trade

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Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Marketing, Public Relations & Sales; Operations; Product Development & Manufacturing

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting; Finance & Insurance; Manufacturing; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services; Retail Trade

John Yost, the founder and owner of ProCompass Management services, has been helping companies and individuals address problems with management and leadership for more than 25...

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Non-Profit; Operations; Product Development & Manufacturing; Technology

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Other Services (except public admin.); Manufacturing; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services

40 years experience in small business from researching and writing the stretegic business plan, to raising capital, to writing business policies for: safety, operations, and...

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Accounting & Cash Flow; Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Marketing, Public Relations & Sales; Operations

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Real Estate & Rental & Leasing

Have over 30 years of experience operating and running a software company. Understand many of the business challenges and making difficult business decisions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Buying or Selling a Business; Marketing, Public Relations & Sales; Operations; Other; Product Development & Manufacturing; Strategy & Planning; Technology

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Other Services (except public admin.); Finance & Insurance

I can help clients with just about any small business issue. Today I own a commercial and residential real estate company, as well as an oil and gas company that includes a...

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Buying or Selling a Business; Marketing, Public Relations & Sales; Operations; Strategy & Planning

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Other Services (except public admin.); Construction; Educational Services; Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services; Real Estate & Rental & Leasing

I can help you devise a realistic business plan including cash flow projections to determine your cash needs, financing possibilities for those needs, market evaluations and...

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Accounting & Cash Flow; Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Financing / Capital

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Finance & Insurance; Transportation & Warehousing

I have 32 years of corporate business experienece. But more relevently, over the last 13 years I purchased, owned, operated and most recently sold for a significant profit, our...

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Accounting & Cash Flow; Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Buying or Selling a Business; Customer Relations; Franchising; Human Resources; Marketing, Public Relations & Sales; Operations; Strategy & Planning

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Other Services (except public admin.); Finance & Insurance

As a past management consultant, company president and plant manager I can offer help to entrepreneurs starting or buying a business. Also help existing businesses to grow to the...

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Human Resources; Legal Issues; Operations; Product Development & Manufacturing

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Manufacturing; Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services; Retail Trade

Karen Calcagno is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, operated, and profitably sold a number of businesses in diverse fields. These include automotive services, gas and oil...

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Business Plans / Startup Assistance; Human Resources; Non-Profit; Operations

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services; Real Estate & Rental & Leasing; Retail Trade