I can empathize with collegiate entrepreneurs because I too was an aspiring entrepreneur while attending college. After college, I moved to New York City where I got a job at a startup whose customers were, well, startups. We scaled the business quickly and, within a couple of years, thousands of startups were going through our processes on a weekly basis. Over the next 10 years I saw a ton of businesses succeed and, unfortunately, even more that didn’t. After that, I founded a business coaching and startup services company called The Startup Expert where I learned even more from new venture founders all over the world, in just about every industry. I then spent several years colleges and universities where I coached and mentored new venture founders and created innovative co-curricular programming with the goal of presenting them with a practical perspective that is deeply in tune with the real world. My background as an entrepreneur and almost two decades of experience providing business services to hundreds of thousands of startups have afforded me knowledge, resources, and connections about what to the do’s and don’ts of starting a business. Today, I work in the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa’s John P. Lowth Entrepreneurship Center as the Manager of Operations.