Jerry is president of Jerry R. Mitchell and Associates Inc. The firm incorporated in 1989 and is designed to specifically assist managers of technology- based companies in the planning and exploitation of existing and new business opportunities. Several of the firm's clients have become public companies. Its unique experience in start-ups is especially important for new firms and new product endeavors.
Jerry has been in the high tech industry since 1961 where he has held positions of: Salesman, Sales Manager, Vice- president Sales, Vice-president Marketing, Executive Vice president Sales and Marketing, President/CEO. Jerry has been a partner/founder with 12 companies that received over 50% international revenue, 8 of which successfully went public or were sold/merged. In November 1997 he and three other entrepreneurs were described in Fortune Magazine as serial entrepreneurs because of their accomplishments starting multiple successful companies.

He is President/Founder of The Midwest Entrepreneurs Forum since its formation. He is the publisher of Bootstrapping newsletter. With his partner he holds monthly seminars called Bootstrapping sharing his knowledge with up and coming entrepreneurs.He serves on the Advisory Board of DePaul Universities Coleman Entrepreneurship Center. Jerry enjoys mentoring other entrepreneurs. Jerry has been appointed North American Representative for the city of Qingdao, China by the Mayor of Qingdao.

He is a proven leader in taking new technology to market. Listed below are some of the ideas he helped bring to the international market.

First read only memory (emulated other computers including IBM 360)
First Computer Output Microfilm
First Non IBM Optical Scanning System
First Key To Disk Input Devices
First Computer Aided Design Systems
First Computer Aided Manufacturing Systems
First Digital Telemetry Systems Used to Monitor the Astronauts and taken to the market to monitor hospital patients including fetal monitoring
First automated pay Telephone Company
First high-resolution graphic display (2500 squared) system
First integrated logic design simulation system
First independent DSL Company
E-mail:jerry@jerryrmitchellandassoc.com

www.jerryrmitchell.com

My passion is ...

helping other entrepreneurs

I know too much about ...

international business

My parents always told me ...

believe in yourself

My childhood ambition ...

being a math teascher

My favorite memory ...

being with my family

Why I write ...

to pass on the knowledge I have gained in my life

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the new generation of entrepreneurs

My first job ...

paper delivery boy

My best moment ...

watching people I have mentored becomming successful

My inspiration ...

my family and friends

Business > Financing a Startup Venture capital is not without cost

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Venture capital takes ownership away from you; do you really want to do that?

It was 1999, at the height of the boom, a few months before the bust of April 2000 so he can be forgiven. I stood before a crowd of entrepreneurs gathered at a hotel on Route 128 in Burlington Massachusetts. They'd each paid $550 to come hear the collective wisdom of bankers, other entrepreneurs, lawyers, accountants, and venture capitalists. I was the keynote speaker and before me stood a twenty-something entrepreneur with that look in his eye.

The look said it all. He had the idea. He was going to sol...

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