Our Executive Director Robert W. Price
Robert W. Price enjoys world renown as an expert in the field of entrepreneurial capitalism. He is a strategist, innovative thought leader, public speaker, teacher, and prolific author. He has helped prepare the business plans, strategic plans, and financing strategies for many entrepreneurs on their road to success!
Global Business Advisor
Most notably, he created innovative business strategies for a new online financial service during the early days of the Internet-era. This project became part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, as one of the most significant technology advances in the insurance arena.
He was also the brains behind one of the first online SaaS (software-as-a-service) ventures. Working in a strategic alliance with the IBM think tank for SMBs and the IBM venture capital group, this new Company went public on the NASDAQ market and reached a market cap of some $150 million. Now with more than four million customers, the Company’s solutions are sold through private label syndication on Fortune 2000 corporate Web sites, including JPMorgan Chase, Union Bank of California, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and Inc. magazines, and through OEM distribution deals with Dell and Gateway Computers. Investors include Compaq, IBM, and Apollo Management.
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Prolific Author
In his role as a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Entrepreneurship Institute, a nonprofit organization that specializes in educating entrepreneurs who lead ventures with high growth potential, Mr. Price has written or edited more than a dozen books. His books are required reading at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, UCLA, USC, Wharton, Caltech, Indiana University, New York University and many more leading universities and colleges around the world. His work has been translated into more than 10 languages.
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Thought Leader
Robert is a nationally recognized expert and speaker on entrepreneurial management. He has been quoted in a variety of publications and media outlets including: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Financial News, XM and Sirius Satellite Radio programming, Tom Peters NewsWire, Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, Forbes.com, National Federation of Independent Business, Small Business Advocate, American Venture Magazine, Home Business Magazine, Dallas Forth Worth News, Miami Herald, Export Today Magazine, Orange County Register, to Wells Fargo Small Business Report, Ceramics Today, and Today’s Chemist at Work.
He is a life-long serial entrepreneur and a supporter of entrepreneurship, and was honored as a semifinalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Program. As a consultant, he currently advises emerging growth companies on strategic planning, business planning, angel/venture capital financing, strategic alliances, and entrepreneurial marketing. An expert in packaging, placing, and presenting business plans, his clients’ business plans have raised more than $100 million from angels, venture capitalists, and strategic partners.
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Creative Educator
While studying as an MBA student at Pepperdine University, and as a part of a class assignment, Robert created a business plan that outlined the world’s first formal university-affiliated “Bootcamp” for entrepreneurs where working professionals earn a Certificate in 14-weeks instead of a business degree. So innovative was the idea that Pepperdine used his business plan to develop and launch their Entrepreneurial Management Program. Upon graduation Robert was hired by Pepperdine as a consultant, curricula developer, and later was hired as an instructor for this revolutionary non-degree Certificate Program.
As an associate professor, Robert was invited to develop and teach innovative entrepreneurial marketing programs at Chapman University in Orange, California. Chapman’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program is now ranked #6 in the USA and their graduate entrepreneurship program is ranked #8 in the USA by Entrepreneur magazine. Chapman Entrepreneurship Program was recently selected by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) as the first-place winner of the Innovative Pedagogy Award. The USASBE Excellence in Education Awards are sponsored by Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE). Additionally, Women 3.0 magazine included Chapman University in their 2008 listing of Top 50 MBA Programs with an entrepreneurship focus.
Robert earned his MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, and Bachelors degree in International Studies/Western Europe from Ohio State University.
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