SPRINT NOMINATES Bruce A Berman® FOR THE ERNST AND YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD

The search is on! We are searching for Orange County's best and brightest entrepreneurs and you have been nominated by Sprint, to participate as a nominee in this year's Entrepreneur Of The Year® awards program.

Ernst and Young LLP and national sponsors USA Today, CNNfn and CNN, The Nasdaq-Amex Market Group, and The Center for Entrepreneur Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, have joined forces to recognize and honor outstanding entrepreneurs through the annual Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs gain the recognition they deserve for their contributions to Orange County's economy, encourage future entrepreneurs and, ultimately, enhanced California's business climate. Read more

Bruce A Berman® Finds Funding and Takes Company Public in Less Than 6 Months

Bruce A. Berman®, president and CEO of a newly public business incubator got the idea for his company at a cocktail party. Or, rather, at a series of cocktail parties.

"I've been consulting with companies on how to go public for a long time," says Berman. "At cocktail parties, people were always asking me how companies go public and wanting to know if their companies qualified. I developed a series of about 50 questions to ask people in order to determine if a business had the potential to be a public company. The problem with that system is that you can't talk to very many people, no more than two or three a day. So I decided to streamline and automate the process." Read more

Bruce A Berman® - Wind Energy Pioneer

If the wind were a measure of achievement, then the massive growth in 1984 of the wind energy industry was nothing short of a gale. Fertilized by a compelling interest in alternative energy, a slowly eroding reliance upon fossil fuel for electricity production, an energy investment pot sweetened by federal tax credits and a nifty vehicle called the Public Utilities Regulatory Act (PURPA), wind turbines in California by the thousands sprouted like mushrooms. Read more