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Enovative Kontrol Systems Interview

April 30, 2011 By Clark Leave a Comment

Enovative Kontrol System’s Derek Zobrist and Gabe Ayala generously offered their seasoned business advice and various experiences in this interview below which I conducted recently.

Derek and Enovative were awarded the Emerging Entrepreneur Award of 2010 by Entrepreneur Magazine, which is well deserved. Click Image below to enlarge Entrepreneur Magazine article.

Among other accolades, Entrepreneur Magazine noted that in four years Enovative “already has impacted the Los Angeles community by reducing its dependence on foreign oil by $1 million annually.”

Gabe and Derek have created an energy efficiency company and proprietary technology that saves energy costs for multi-unit commercial buildings, apartments, schools and offices.

Enovative’s D’MAND CIRC® pumps are currently installed in more than 1,000 buildings. In addition to reducing green house gas emissions, the system can pay for itself in four months due to energy cost savings.

For more information visit Enovative Kontrol System’s Website, or check out these links here or here.Below is an additional video which further explains the technology featuring Enovative Kontrol Systems.

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The Rise to Wealth interviews Steve Kaplan

February 7, 2011 By Clark Leave a Comment

One of the books I really enjoyed reading recently was BAG THE ELEPHANT! by Steve Kaplan (New York Times’, Wall Street Journal’s, USA Today’s, and Business Week’s bestseller list).

In seven years, Steve grew his marketing company SCA from a start up to $250 million in sales with offices in 14 countries. One of the ways Steve achieved this feat was through landing huge clients, also known as bagging elephants (300 of the Fortune 500 companies have been his customers). As a business and success expert, he has appeared on MSNBC, NBC, CBS, Fox Television and has spoken to thousands of college students at various business schools across the country.

Steve is now an elephant himself, having owned 30 businesses across many industries and sold 26 of them. He currently owns businesses including: Steve Kaplan Live, The Difference Maker Inc., and Kaplan Enterprises LLC.

I was fortunate to bag an interview with Steve who generously agreed to share his vast and experienced business advice below:

TRTW: Which aspects of your company SCA do you attribute to its huge success? What were some of the marketing and promotion strategies that worked best?

SK: Success is the [Read more...]

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TheRisetoWealth.com interviews Scott Shane

December 9, 2010 By Clark Leave a Comment

Scott Shane is the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He has also written or edited ten books on business and entrepreneurship.

His book Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live by (Yale University Press, 2008) was one of the top ten business books of the year for Amazon.com. His 2005 book Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Businesses won the 2006 Golden Book Award for best business book of the year and has been translated into eight languages.

Additionally, Shane was the 2009 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, hosts a column at BusinessWeek, and is an angel investor and member of the Northcoast Angel Network.

Mr. Shane has a wealth of knowledge on entrepreneurship, which he has generously shared with TheRisetoWealth.com in this interview below:

TRTW:What would be one of the first, or most fundamental, lessons you would teach your students in one of your classes at Case Western Reserve University? What advice would you like to offer to anyone considering starting a business or becoming an entrepreneur?

SS:Most of the focus in entrepreneurship is on the entrepreneur – what characteristics the person has that make them good at starting and running a business. Often overlooked is the importance of the business idea. In my books Finding Fertile Ground and Illusions of Entrepreneurship I point out that the aspects of the business idea – the industry people enter, the business model they have, the nature of their competitive advantage (if they have one at all) – actually account for more of the variation in [Read more...]

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