Peter Shankman is a prime example of an entrepreneur turning frustrations into business ideas. Peter shares with iV how his (ADOS) Attention Deficit ‘Oh Shiny’ Disorder has served him well as an entrepreneur & ‘out of the box’ thinker. iV learns how HARO (Help A Reporter Out) was born out of a simple desire to help reporters and organizing a Facebook group that is now has over 75,000 sources & more than 25,000 journalists contributing to this online source. CREATED BY: On the Road with iV (Ingrid Vanderveldt, Lyn Graft). Ingrid Vanderveldt (Host), Lyn Graft (Director/Producer), & Chance Carpenter (Virtual Producer).

Kim Overton, founder of SPIBelt, became an entrepreneur years ago because she had a life changing event – she was laid off. iV learns why this was such a GREAT thing for Kim and how she became a personal trainer making $8/hr and still loved it. Kim then shares why she decided to switch from services to products so she could sleep better and how she likes to throw things against the wall. Learn how the idea for the SPIBelt came out. PLUS – iV gets a SPI Girl demo and see why she is so jealous of Kim.

Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress.org & WordPress.com, was really into ‘Geeky’ things when looking at Blogger software when he first started WP, but couldn’t find what he wanted. Matt tells iV how this desire led him to creating a publishing software that now has over 13M users with customers that include Perez Hilton, Richard Branson, New York Times & Techcrunch. He also shares what it feels like to travel the talking to audiences that live & breath the WordPress life. Plus top 3 challenges faced so far.

The founder of Cartfly, Josh Manley, learned how to bridge the technology gap between developers and business folks and made sure they had their fly zipped before they went to market. Learn how they set their roadmap and really came together as a team to make it work and have fun doing it.

Cartfly was an idea to make storefront as simple to share as a Youtube video. Josh Manley and his team took $50,000 of friends & family money and brought this idea to life. Now they are all over the web with client storefronts multiplying like flies. Watch how he shares his story and his thoughts on what he does and doesn’t worry about.

Josh Manley’s 1st company didn’t quite make it and his 2nd company, Cartfly, almost didn’t get off the ground until a wizard out of Sedona saved the day. Watch iV’s interview with Josh and see how he pulled it off as his out-of-money team worked their own magic and pulled a techology rabbit out of the hat.