5280 TIPS for INNOVATORS and ENTREPRENEURS: From Startup to Stable ... (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780999211403)

Jim Jindrick has 30+ years experience in high-tech research and development, product engineering, operations and manufacturing, international marketing, and new business development. He's launched internal corporate ventures, spin-off companies, and independent startups. Products and ventures his teams created have generated well over a billion dollars in lifetime revenue to date. Jim has received some 35 U.S. and international patents for innovations in automotive test and diagnostic equipment, smart-grid electric power distribution automation devices, and personal computer instrumentation and data acquisition systems. For 20+ years, Jim was a Mentor-in-Residence for the McGuire Entrepreneurship Center in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. He had the privilege of collaborating with over a thousand brilliant students creating over two hundred new venture plans. Jim was named an Eller Entrepreneurial Fellow, was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Oregon, and a Moot Corp Fellow at the University of Texas. He has been a guest speaker for a variety of entrepreneurial-focused events, university classes and programs, companies, and professional organizations. Jim is a volunteer for the SCORE Southern Arizona chapter. Jim was a co-founder of Wencil Research, LLC. The company mentors, consults, and delivers educational programs, seminars, studio workshops to innovators, entrepreneurs, corporate clients, and new business venture development teams. Jim is an IEEE Life Member, has an FCC General Radiotelephone Operator License, and an amateur (ham) radio license. While a student at the University of Wisconsin, he was also an announcer, news reporter, and engineer for several radio and television stations in Milwaukee, Madison, and Racine. His favorite saying: "Save Swing Jazz, Pelicans, and Oxford Commas!"