The Adventure Consultant: Tales from the Entrepreneurial Trail - Softcover

The path of an entrepreneur is truly the road less traveled. It’s generally littered with potholes, detours, stop signs, and speed bumps. The entrepreneurial trail can consist of lonely desert highways, congested freeways, and everything in between. In The Adventure Consultant, author Todd Smith takes the reader along on his own entrepreneurial journey, from his struggle to find meaning in the corporate world, to the incomparable feeling of freedom in striking out on his own. He shares his great successes and the crushing failures experienced through the ups and downs of a turbulent economy and the changing times of the 1990s through the present day.

His golden retriever, TJ, was with him through many of his entrepreneurial adventures including business dealings in the Big Easy of New Orleans, the mountains of Vermont, and the beaches of Northeast Florida, business schools in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Sydney, Australia, a driving expedition through Latin America, an internship in Chile, travels through Europe, a business plan RV road trip, and a cycling trek across the U.S. from the Atlantic Coast to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

Todd Houston Smith is one of the top venture development consultants in the country. For more than fifteen years, he has consulted with companies ranging from high growth start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Todd’s specialty is helping high growth start-ups and business units develop investment grade strategic business plans. He is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to develop business plans that obtain investment capital.

Todd has expertise in a variety of management disciplines including Business Plan Development, Financial Modeling, and Capital Acquisition. He has worked with companies such as IBM and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida. Todd has a MBA from UCLA Anderson and a Master’s in International Management from Thunderbird. He holds a BS in Financial Management/Real Estate Finance from Clemson University. He lives in Jacksonville Beach, Florida with his wife Debra, their daughter, Bayley, and their dog, Jazz.

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