EOFire | Daily chats with Entrepreneurs On Fire

Jimmy is the Co-Founder of the high-end travel gear company Minaal, and they are preparing to release a revolutionary new carry-on luggage design. Starting out from his remote home country of New Zealand, then relocating to Vietnam, and then the US, Jimmy is living proof that ‘just doing it’ really works.

Ryan is currently the CEO at GearHost, a scalable and reliable high-end cloud hosting company that specializes in Microsoft technologies and has a strong focus on customer service. Beginnings don’t get much humbler than starting a company in your Mom’s basement, and that’s just what Ryan did. GearHost has kept their basement-casual attitude and mixed it with corporate-level business practices, because that’s just who they are.

Rob runs a property investment company called RMP Property in the UK. Honesty and impartial advice is absent from the UK property industry so Rob set up RMP to fix it. He also co-hosts one of the most popular business podcasts in the UK, The Property Podcast. Rob loves a challenge and sets himself big hairy goals each year. He’s climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Mont Paradiso and has also completed the New York City Marathon.

John is an expert behavioral and mindset coach with a unique ability for helping people release the mental obstacles that prevent them from achieving their very best in business and in life. In the last 10 years he has written two NYT Best-selling books and has appeared on Larry King Live eight times. Today he is CEO of Praxis Now, which develops some of the most advanced brain re-training programs in the world.

Bob founded and served as CEO & Chair of three successive startups over a 30-year period in Medical imaging, newspaper imaging, digital cameras and consumer electronics. Bob then retired and taught entrepreneurship at Babson MBA for seven years. We will chat about all this and his new startup, IEC, in today's interview.

Corey is a 24-year old actor-turned entrepreneur who set off on a 24-month challenge to retire his mom. Using mobile apps, eBooks and other ventures as his vehicle to do it, he plans to retire his mom for Christmas of 2013.

Nancy’s passion for creating persuasive presentations changed her life and inspired her to help others tell stories that spark meaningful action. Her journey from failing at public speaking in college to leading the world’s best-known presentation firm taught her several lessons on how the power of communication can change the world.

David is the author of Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty, which debuted in the top 20 on Amazon’s Best-seller list. David is dedicated to breaking down the fundamentals of good design and making design literacy accessible to both developers and Entrepreneurs.

Billy is a former professional poker player who launched BlueFirePoker, a poker training site in 2009. In 2011, he started launching and acquiring E-commerce stores.  He's now launching an E-commerce training site to help people who want to own their own store.  He also blogs at ForeverJobless.com.

Patrick is an authority on global business trends including big data and the social media revolution. He is the author of the award-winning book Marketing Shortcuts For The Self-Employed and a regular speaker for Bloomberg TV.

Sunil is the Founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace where businesses can go to hire freelance writers. Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and ranks as one of the top five largest writer communities on the Internet, providing hundreds of businesses with thousands of blog posts, tweets, press releases and articles each month.

Dan is an author of both Business and Real Estate books, a connector of experts and a Joint Venture Artist who seeks to help everyone who needs that special something or someone at just the right time. 

Debbie is the inspiring Founder of Women on Fire and a pioneer in the field of executive and life coaching. She is known for her work in transforming women’s lives. Her gift is her ability to see and nurture the strengths, gifts and talents of the women she works with.

Walker and Evan are the Co-Founders of Teespring. These two Brown University students created a website that leveraged the crowdfunding model to successfully sell a t-shirt to commemorate their favorite college bar that shut down. Within six hours they had amassed hundreds of pre-order sales via PayPal. Coupled with the success of the momentous sale, they received interest from clubs, communities and individuals who all expressed interest in creating similar campaigns for their custom products. The concept for Teespring was born. 

Stephan is an entrepreneurial thought leader and online marketing expert. He is the Founder of Tower Paddle Boards, which garnered an investment from billionaire Mark Cuban on ABC’s Shark Tank and was also named one of the top 10 success stories in the history of the show by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Patrick is the CEO of 99designs. 99designs is the world's largest online graphic design marketplace, connecting businesses looking for design work with more than 220,000 graphic designers from 192 countries around the world. 99designs also happens to be one of EntrepreneurOnFire's amazing sponsors!

Derek is a Partner at a wealth management firm who started an un-networking community in Washington DC called cadre. cadre currently supports over 100 remarkable CEO's and business leaders. Derek is also the author of Networking Is Not Working.

Jaydev’s business life and personal life are almost one in the same because he simply loves what he does. Nothing is more rewarding than finding ways to add value to people's lives, whether its directly through his business or connecting like-minded people to each other.

Jaime helps Entrepreneurs focus their money and their strengths to create an amazing life all while building their net worth. She interviews millionaires to get their best tips, tactics and advice from their successes and failures on her podcast, The Eventual Millionaire.

Kevin is the Chairman and Founder of TVGoods, Inc. and Chairman of As Seen On TV, Inc. He is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and one of the principal architects of the infomercial industry. He is well known for his 175 episodes on Shark Tank, and is ready to rock Fire Nation today!