Welcome

I'm Tom Eckmann, a serial entrepreneur with a passion for turning good ideas into great businesses!  I work on my own businesses and help other entrepreneurs with theirs.

Entrepreneurs come up with lots of ideas but very few are good enough to become great businesses.  And even if the idea is really good, the road to success is long, difficult and perilous.  That's why most new businesses fail within the first few years. 

I know because I've gone through this process multiple times and had my share of winners, and losers.  I've gotten pretty good at sorting the good from the bad by analyzing the product, market, competitive, operational and financial challenges the new business will face.   And for the ideas that pass muster, I know how to develop and execute strategic and tactical plans to maximize the odds of success.

I call this process O₂ for entrepreneurs^™ and it's designed to help entrepreneurs improve their odds of success.  If you're about to start a business, or have already taken the plunge and looking for ways to grow, O₂ for entrepreneurs^™ may help.  Give me a call and we'll find out!  206-441-2067 or email. 

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Tom is a lecturer at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business.  He teaches introduction to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial decision-making to graduate and undergraduate students.

Tom is Chairman and CFO of The Springboard Academy (formerly GoGirl Academy) which helps women and men of all ages develop the skills and confidence to accelerate their personal and career success.  Academy programs give aspiring individuals a competitive edge in today’s workplace.  They learn how to define and market their personal brand, make great first impressions (in person and on-line), and develop the writing, speaking and networking skills to make that brand shine!  The academy opened last year and now has nearly 50 graduates.

Jenni Hogan wakes viewers with a smile every weekday morning from 4:30am to  8am as the traffic anchor on KIRO-7, the CBS affiliate in Seattle.  In 2010, the industry's broadcast and cable website declared this Australian native the most followed local TV anchor on Twitter in the nation.  Tom helps Jenni with her personal brand and off-air business activities.  Learn more at JenniHogan.com.

Tom is founder and CEO of AllGreen Renewables which imports and distributes clean-burning, renewable biomass heating systems for homes, businesses and institutions.  The company licenses leading products from manufacturers in Europe, obtains U.S. safety and emission certificates, and distributes throughout North America. 

Tom has been contracted by Interise to deliver the StreetWise Steps to Small Business Growth™ curriculum in 2011 in Seattle.

My book, An Interpreneur’s Journey: The Birth of a New Economy Business,  is a fictional account of a new business start-up.  It describes how one Internet entrepreneur ––Interpreneur–– reinvented an "old economy" business by moving to the web.    It provides real-life examples of what first-time, and for that matter, serial entrepreneurs can expect when starting a new company.  It's also a “how to” book which describes how to create new businesses and reinvent old ones using the Internet.  [more information]

Tom Eckmann

Absolute Business Services Inc.

PO Box 19860 ● Seattle, Washington 98109

Phone: 206-441-2067 ● Fax: 206-350-5235

Teckmann@AbsoluteBusiness.com