John Dimmer

Guest speaker for this day was John Dimmer, an entrepreneur who worked at Free Range Media and helped create multiple businesses around the country. So of the business he has funded and created was Honda dealership, Airstream dealerships, and banks.

John went to high school with Andrew back in the day and his dad helped both of them to be stirred in the direction of starting their own business. However, John graduated with a degree in finance and worked in the industry for a number of years. He worked for about 5 years at a bank trying to work his way up and decided that the only way he would move up would be if he started his own business. So he teamed up with Andrew later on to create Free Range Media and when they sold made enough money to retire, however he wanted to do more. About 3 weeks later he became a angel investor and starting investing in other start ups to get back into the market. It was a success as he has helped many major companies become developed and be highly successful.

During his presentation he had some good tips on what to focus on in school in order to become a successful entrepreneur. John suggested that when you have free classes available during school that you should take an accounting class. He explained that an accounting class teaches you the basics of keeping score of your company. That is what accounting is for, to keep track of your business and to give you an idea to whether or not you are heading in the right direction or not. After all if you were not keeping score how would you to cut down on expenses, grow the company, or hire new people. All this accounting can do and make you a more successful business owner.