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Startup Recap is an attempt to summarize in brief the episodes of:

Providing the benefits of:

  • Time savings
  • A reference for episodes
  • Short concise advice

If errors are found I apologize ahead of time and will make any corrections brought to my attention, for exact wording please watch or listen to the show.

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About Me

Born and raised in upstate New York, north of Syracuse a bit.  My father is a retired teacher and my mother was a supervisor at an electronics firm.  I got my first experience with business through my family, my Grandparents owned a bar/restaurant and had rental property.  My father being a teacher had spare time in the summers and ran a painting and started many side businesses.  I fondly remember having many long conversations with my dad, strategizing about what direction the business should go.

At the time, all I wanted to do was fly airplanes, so off to college I go, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University a great school for anything in aeronautics.  My career was moving along nicely until 9/11, I think that one day changed my career more than anything (odd, I am re-launching this site on 9/11/09).  Nothing close to what families went through and are still going through in NY but how things can change so quickly.  I was laid off from United Airlines in early 2002 for four and a half years and was recalled in 2006 and laid off again earlier this year (2009), gotta love the airline business these days, so much is luck and timing.

Flying has a bit of downtime at hotels (it can be quite boring at times) so I started listening to podcasts.  I discovered TWiST and Mixergy and thought why not gain some insight from very successful people before doing something on my own.

For those of you interested here are the planes I have flown professionally and the companies in chronological order:

Special Thanks to Frank Duarte, Randall Johnson, Shane Stoffregan, Chris Sheldon and Mark Abbott for letting me use their pictures.  These picture can be found at either Airliners.net or JetPhotos.net