Drunken Money

John Shumate, CEO of Venture First (and the most interesting person we've ever met), teaches us how to take risks and reach our goals. Some questions answered in this episode: Did you see yourself as an entrepreneur growing up? How did you make the leap to become an entrepreneur? How did you get and keep your first clients? What was your day to day like starting out and what where the first few years like running Venture First? What is the best marketing tool you have ever used? How did you expand Venture First's services from business valuation to outside CFO Services and bookkeeping? What does it mean to be a CFO for a company? How do you grow your services when you aren't an expert in that service line? How do you differentiate yourself in an industry that has a "stodgy" reputation and make finance sexy? What separates people who take risks from those who do not? How can great things happen from really bad situations? What does your day to day look like now that Venture First is more established? What are