Texas Evening Entrepreneurs

Hi All,

We're proud to announce our first speaker event in 2010.  Our kind volunteer is Gary Hoover and his bio is listed below.  Gary plans to speak about the eight keys to building and leading successful enterprises.

The event is setup for Thursday, February 11th at 6pm on Campus (GSB 2.120).

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Gary Hoover began his entrepreneurial journey at an early age. His question about enterprises was, “What separates the losers from the winners?”As part of his education, he studied economics at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and two other Nobel Prize winners, served as a securities analyst for Citibank on Wall Street, worked as a buyer for Federated Department Stores, and headed up acquisitions and strategic planning for the May Department Stores Company.

At the age of 30, after he finally took the plunge and created pioneering book superstore BOOKSTOP, which helped change the nature of book shopping in America. This company was sold to Barnes & Noble for $41.5 million cash when it was 7 years old, and became a cornerstone for their industry-dominating superstore chain.

After he and his partners sold BOOKSTOP, Gary returned to his first love of understanding businesses, and began the company that became Hoover’s, the world’s largest Internet-based provider of information about enterprises. Hoovers.com covers over 40,000 companies around the world. In July of 1999, Hoover’s went public and in March of 2003, the company was purchased by Dun & Bradstreet for $117 million. Like BOOKSTOP, Hoover’s has changed the way we do things and today employs over 300 people.

In the autumn of 2009, Gary was appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin. There he focuses on inciting and inspiring entrepreneurial thinking among students of all types, graduates and undergraduates, inside and outside of the business school.

Gary lives in Austin, Texas, with his 50,000-book library. He has consulted, spoken to conferences, and worked to encourage entrepreneurial thinking on every continent and in every industry, for profit and not for profit. In 2009 he launched www.hooversworld.com, a blog which includes reviews of books, ideas, and places from Gary’s iconoclastic angle.

In January we plan to meet with local entrepreneurs, discuss potential business problems, brainstorm ideas, and help implement solutions.  We also plan to hold one speaker event and are still in the process of structuring our self for 2010.  If you're interested in regular updates, then please register and sign yourself up for our newsletter.

We are active and growing bigger.  Recently we’ve held a speaker event with Christian Landers, writer of Stuff White People Like, and Joshua Bingaman, owner of Progress Coffee and other ventures. We will continue to have speaker events, discussion panels, social gatherings, networking events, and more activities over the next two months.

We are currently in the process of re-structuring the organization, building an active officer team, looking for a pool of ambassadors/volunteers, and trying out an effective way to bring value to every participant.

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