What was something you learned at K-State that you still use to run your business today?

While I was at K-State as a student, I made many connections with entrepreneurial business owners and I was inspired by a couple professors from the marketing department. Through their inspirational support, I decided to engage a local vendor of video games (back in the Pac-Man days) and built my own small enterprise that turned a small success financially. It also included a copy machine service for after hours (this was before laser printers or printers of any type were invented). Only typewriters. And the copy store would be closed after 11pm. So I found ways to capitalize on deficiencies in the market at Manhattan. After graduating KSU, I started a career as a statistical process engineer at General Motors at Kansas City, but my entrepreneurial passion continued forward to start the first internet service provider company in the midwest. Flipped this business during the dot com bubble days and started NetStandard.

What inspires you?

Today, inspiration comes to me from listening to other business owners about their hurdles that may keep them from accelerating their business. I love to hear their stories and I get excited to share ideas on how my company can implement our technology resources to enable achieving their goals. Every company allows us the ability to "dream" with the business owner!

If you could give a new entrepreneur one piece of advice, what would it be?

Believe in your dreams and make them happen. Get up out of your chair. Get engaged with people. Shake hands and talk with them. It takes a lot of work and do not procrastinate.