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  • David Krauskopf Fred Glave
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    David Krauskopf is an entrepreneur experienced in starting, financing and growing several companies with direct experience in travel, hospitality, software, computer, and retail industries.   His specialties are in business planning, marketing (internet particularly) and financial management.  David was the general manager of Apple Computer in Russia from (1993-1999) and owned the exclusive representative for Apple Computer in Russia and the Ukraine.  He founded a printing and press room solutions company in Russia in 1996, and these combined companies in 2007 had over $300M in sales revenue.   David helped start and was on the advisory board of Travelpost.com that was acquired by Sidestep in 2007.  In 2000, David developed and now owns Hamanasi Adventure Resort (<a>www.hamanasi.com</a> ), a high-end boutique resort in Belize, Central America.  This resort has 70 employees, high operating margins and is currently ranked number one in Belize and Central America by the hotel review web site TripAdvisor.com.  Mr. Krauskopf lives in Northern Virginia, is an angel investor with New Vantage Group (<a>www.newvantagegroup.com</a>) , David is a volunteer SCORE (<a>www.score.org</a>) business counselor partnering with the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority and for two years has been an Assistant Wrestling coach at Langley High School.  David holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (2005) and a B.S. degree in Management from Miami University. 

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    <p>David Krauskopf: Hello, I am David Krauskopf and in our video series on how to start a business, this video is related to the passion it takes to be entrepreneur. In my background, I and lot of people often called Zero Entrepreneur. So I have started several businesses and grown them, some of which grown quite large in size. So in this segment what I am going to talk to you about is the passion it takes to be an entrepreneur.</p><p>Host: What does it mean when you say being an entrepreneur takes passion?</p><p>David Krauskopf: Well in starting a business and getting it going what you will run into is an incredible amount of difficulties and things that you did not imagine and passion simply put is the emotional attachment to your business that will get you through the hard times. It's kind of like that burning driving feeling that this can work, this must work, this will work and so that's the general feeling is the emotional attachment to the business is passion.</p><p>1</p>

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