Barry Moltz
Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years.
After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation.
His first book, “You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business” describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fourth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai. His second book, Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success, was published by Wiley on January 11, 2008.
Barry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship who has given over 100 speeches to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000. He was appointed by the Illinois Governor in 2005 to serve on the board of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE). He has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at IIT( Illinois Institute of Technology). He was elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2004.
Moltz has written articles for many national publications. Moltz also wrote a chapter in the book, “State of the Art: American Angel Investing”, (The Darden School, The Batten Institute). Moltz wrote the foreword for Penguin Books’ new “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Business Plans”.
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Bounce!
Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence for Your Next Great Success
Both success and failure are simply outcomes in lifecycle of business where repetition is inevitable and overall process matters far more than any single event or outcome. Moltz demonstrates that developing the resiliency to “bounce” through these cycles determines who ultimately will succeed. Using real life business examples, he shows that with true business confidence, we can face our fears, let go of shame and failures, use all our choices, be better risk-takers, and define our own brand of success.
You Need to Be A Little Crazy
The Truth about Running Your Business
Barry Moltz debunks the myths of business start-ups by telling the truth: You have to be crazy to start and run a business. He delivers irreverent, straight talk about the complex intersection of business, financial health, physical well-being, spiritual wholeness and family life. This perspective is augmented with other personal tales from the entrepreneurial front. He offers tidbits of insight that will vaporize isolation, encourage self-reflection and refresh the spirit of anyone running their own business.
What Not to Say in a Business Plan
Barry Moltz says that we need to outlaw premeditated business. In fact business plans are meaningless. Unfortunately, we get so wrapped up in the plan that we forget to do the most important thing: Find Customers! But what role does a business plan take in starting and running a successful business? He stresses that while the actual document is worthless, the process of writing the plan is very worthwhile. Barry describes the key parts of the process and what can be learned by developing metrics for your business without worthless projections and promises.
