National Small Business Week with the Small Business Professor

National Small Business Week with the Small Business Professor

and Bruce Freeman

Bruce Freeman, nationally known as the small business professor is an entrepreneur, columnist, co-author of Birthing the Elephant and adjunct professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Bruce Freeman discuss the following:

  • We’ve all been facing a tough economy – Now that National Small Business week is upon us, how are small businesses doing?
  • What does it take to be an entrepreneur? What’s the entrepreneurial mindset all about? Has it changed over time?
  • When you teach entrepreneurship at Seton Hall University, what do you focus on?
  • Your book Birthing the Elephant — that’s quite a title! How did you come up with it?
  • What are some of the smartest moves an entrepreneur in start-up mode can make? What are some big pitfalls to avoid?
  • Do you  have some parting advice to give a new business owner?

Duration: 10:12

Nationally known as Professor Bruce, The Small Business Professor®, Bruce Freeman is a syndicated small business columnist for Scripps Howard News Service. His column, Ask The Small Business Professor, is distributed to over 300 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. In 2006, Bruce received the journalist of the year award (NJ) from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Bruce is co-author of the book, Birthing the Elephant, Ten Speed Press a division of Random House Inc. (March 2008).

A successful entrepreneur, he founded Proline Communications providing marketing and public relations services (est 1991). Bruce Freeman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Reuters and US News & World Report. In addition, he has spoken at, UPenn/Wharton, National Association of Women Business Owners (Louisville KY), Spalding University, Milburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce and the New Jersey Association of Woman Business Owners (NJAWBO). He was recently selected to be small business spokesperson for Brother International (2011).

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Bruce was Director of Operations for PC Magazine’s product testing lab (Ziff Davis Publishing). He recently presented “The Entrepreneurial Mind” for the Wharton Technology Club at the University of Pennsylvania.

Links: www.smallbusinessprofessor.com

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