A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur's Spirit: Volume I

About the Book

A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit – find your passion and live the dream features entrepreneurs’ true short stories written to inspire, energize and teach the reader. The stories include adversities, challenges, triumphs, and successes experienced by the entrepreneur to help readers discover passion and basic principles they can use to live the entrepreneurial dream. Touching both the head and the heart, the stories feature entrepreneurs from ages 21 to 94 representing a diverse range of business types, sizes, and income levels. Stories are presented in a “can do” optimistic format, opened with relevant inspirational quotes, and closed with key success factors, recommended books, entrepreneurs’ websites, and editor’s notes. Featured entrepreneurs include Scott Klososky from Oklahoma, who sold his last company for $115M. Scott believes that building businesses is a noble act and that entrepreneurship has made the U.S. economy the powerhouse that it is. Evelyn Echols, an entrepreneur from Chicago recently celebrated her 94th birthday and is still involved in entrepreneurial ventures. Ms. Echols believes that this era is the perfect time for young people to consider entrepreneurship. Evelyn owned and operated Echols International Travel School for 35 years and just published her second book with Walter Cronkite writing the foreword. Particularly relevant in today’s economy, Katherine Sansone of SANSONE+ PR and Marketing firm in Oakland, California started a business because she was tired of being laid off and wanted to control her own destiny. She now represents notable clients worldwide and discusses changes she had to make in her business with personnel including using contract management rather than having employees. Tamara Dujmovic and Robert Sterpin, two successful entrepreneurs from Izola, Slovenia, Europe (the former Yugoslavia), discuss their business strategies and illustrate the possibilities of entrepreneurship in a society where owning a business was not an option prior to 1991. In the current economic climate, entrepreneurs must work harder than ever before to differentiate their businesses from the competition. Key success factors such as passion, customer service, relationships, work ethic, integrity, determination and perseverance are reiterated throughout the book. A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneurs’ Spirit – find your passion and live the dream will include a series of books with the first book featuring 58 entrepreneurs from five countries and 18 states within the U.S. Future books will be published as editions of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit. The series will include Volumes I, II, and III, a Women Entrepreneurs’ Edition, an Internet Entrepreneurs’ Edition, a Global Entrepreneurs’ Edition, a Disabled Entrepreneurs’ Edition, an African American Entrepreneurs’ Edition, a Native American Entrepreneurs’ Edition, a Social Entrepreneurs’ Edition, an Australian Entrepreneurs’ Edition and others. Over 50 potential editions have been identified. CDs with selected stories in the entrepreneur's voice will follow. A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit will bring inspiration, motivation, and knowledge to entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs worldwide. A portion of the proceeds from the book will be put in a fund to help the next generation of entrepreneurs with start-up funds. To inquire about being an Editor for A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit send an e-mail and your vita to the founder Jeretta Horn Nord at jeretta@acupofcappuccino.com. For the format and guidelines for writing a story, click on "Submit Story." www.acupofcappuccino.com

About the Author

Jeretta Horn Nord is the Founder and CEO of Entrepreneur Enterprises, LLC, and Founder of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit book series. She is the host of a radio talk show titled ‘The Entrepreneurial Mind’ on Web Talk Radio. Dr. Nord is a Riata Professor of Entrepreneurship and a professor in the department of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Nord recently served as a Fulbright Specialists Scholar in Europe and has spent time as a visiting scholar at UCLA and the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Dr. Nord founded the OSU chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and conducts research in the areas of technology and entrepreneurship. She has served as the associate dean for the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University and is currently executive editor of The Journal of Computer Information Systems. Jeretta has presented papers at international conferences in fifteen countries and is the author of numerous articles and a textbook. Cindy Patterson Thompson is the editor of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit Volume II. She is a 1986 graduate of Oklahoma State University with a BS Degree in Business Administration. She moved to Austin, Texas, in 1987 and went to work for a company named PC’s Limited. It was a very entrepreneurial company with everyone pitching in at every level to accomplish the impossible. In a few years, they changed their name to Dell Computer. At Dell, she worked in Human Resources for twelve years in almost every department from Recruiting to Executive Compensation. She left Dell in 1999 to focus on assisting her entrepreneurial husband in their various business activities and to focus on her family. During this time, she wrote a nine-hundred-page book on her family history, which includes creative inventors and small business owners. Ms. Thompson is attending the Texas State ACTiVATE Program that encourages women entrepreneurs. She also hosts the radio show “Empowering Entrepreneurs” on www.pivtr.com internet radio. Ms. Thompson was very excited to interview and learn more about entrepreneurs in various business segments. Entrepreneurs are needed now more than ever, and their stories will inspire others to find their passion and live their dream.