**HERE IS A LITTLE INFO ABOUT THE FOUNDER**

[Tom's Bio]

 

Raised by a single mother in Minnesota, Tom got his first start in business at the age of 8 as a newspaper delivery boy for the MPLS Star and Tribune and worked as a young neighborhood handyman. As each season changed he would go door to door after school providing needed yard work and doing chores for all the seniors that lived on the block. He bought his first Red Schwinn 10 speed Bike with the money he earned from delivering papers.

Tom went away to college in Philadelphia to study journalism at Temple University where he received the freshman journalist of the year award, given to one outstanding student each year by the Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper.

After the stock market crash of the late 1980’s, when he left school to pursue his career, work in journalism was hard to find for new college graduates.

So he fell back on what he knew best and went back to working with his hands by forming a new business called TEK Outdoor Services. From the humble beginnings of just a rusty old pickup truck, a shovel and a hammer he built up a residential and commercial business that eventually serviced over 2,800 customers. Tom passed the state licensing required to become a Class A General Building Contractor and used his creative construction talents to go on to build some of the most beautiful outdoor living spaces in the state.

When the internet burst on the scene in the 1990’s and started to change business forever, Tom traded in his tool belt for a laptop and started one of the first online newsletters for small business owners.

He used the experience of starting his own business, struggling to obtain the needed funding and eventually hitting the million dollar mark to teach other small business owners how to quickly get business funding, how to structure their business properly and how to make extra income online.

Over the past decade Tom has built and sold dozens of successful businesses in a variety of industries. He has personally coached hundreds of other business owners. He has taught thousands of people on live business webinars. He has developed countless business courses and instruction manuals, like Shortcut To Money Secrets, The Ultimate Real Estate Investors Guide and The Triple Crown of Funding. And he has pioneered the use of online income applications that help business owners increase revenue using the internet.

As the co-founder of groups like the small business funding network, crowd funding dream team and the coalition to educate kids on business, he has for well over a decade to teach people how to start businesses, how to fund businesses and how to run businesses successfully.

Tom’s now has a young son and daughter in grade school who are his pride and joy. They keep him busy between soccer games and ballet lessons. And he faces the same challenges every other parent has as they seem to grow up so fast and develop minds of their own.

The favorite place in the world for Tom is sitting in a boat on a deep blue Canadian lake, in Northern Ontario, with a fishing pole in his hands and his family by his side.