Earl Blanks is a former owner of a Party City franchise. Prior to his involvement with Party City, Blanks had started a small consulting business, the Small Business Marketing Planning Center, which provided marketing consulting services to smaller companies that generated $3-5 M per year in sales. Prior to that experience, Blanks worked at Procter & Gamble for over 7 years. Earl Blanks received his undergraduate degree from University of Arkansas and his MBA from Cornell University.
An entrepreneur to me is one who assumes the risk of running a business, to be simple about it. A person has to have an affinity for risk. And not just irresponsible risk. I think it has to be a calculated risk. They have to be able to go and look at a situation, size it up, and say on balance, ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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