Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 2)

SM: Was Home Healthcare of America, your first exposure to a venture business, successful? SS: It was hugely successful. It has become Caremark, which is one of the biggest in the world. I stayed there for just under three years and then they were bought by Baxter. That was the second time I worked for a

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Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 1)

SM: What is your background? Where did you grow up and where do you come from? SS: I grew up all over because my father was in the US military. I lived in a half dozen different states in the US as well as in Europe before I even got out of high school, and

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Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 7)

SM: What is the impact of President Obama’s stimulus package going to be on a company like yours? DM: First it is about the green-collar jobs. We feel we can ramp up very quickly. A lot of other companies have laid people off, but we have held our own while we built up our pipeline.

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Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 6)

SM: Which exchange are you listed on? DM: We are about to go on NASDAQ. We are over the counter right now. We have filed everything, and we have a board of directors that includes former California senator Kevin Murray, who authored the SB 1, a solar bill.

Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 5)

SM: Talk about your competitive landscape. Are there hundreds of companies like yours out there right now? DM: There used to be about 350 companies. I have not looked recently, but the way things have been consolidating I would expect around 175.

Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 4)

SM: What is the employment makeup of a typical team for one of your jobs? DM: For residential it will take a team of four 2-3 days to do. SM: What are the roles of those four people? DM: There is typically a lead who is an electrician.

Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 3)

SM: What type of wineries did you have as customers? DM: They were high-end wineries. Shafer Vinyards, Chateau Montelena, and Spottswoode Vineyard and Winery are a few examples.

Capitalism 2.0: Speculator vs. Creator

One of the flaws I see in Capitalism 1.0 is that speculators get compensated at a substantially higher rate than value creators. As a result, I am hearing from more and more entrepreneurs, CEOs, senior executives – the builders, so to speak – that they are no longer willing to work 60-80 hour weeks. They

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