Jeff & Richard Sloan Co-founders, StartupNation

Jeff and Rich Sloan are the founders of StartupNation, created to help entrepreneurs cultivate their business dreams. StartupNation is a community which offers entrepreneurs the ultimate resource for starting up and growing a business. Through StartupNation's broadcast, online, print and event channels, entrepreneurs can access advice from a variety of experts and peers who've been through it before. Through years of in-the-trenches experience, they’ve amassed a wealth of business wisdom, culminating in the formation of StartupNation.

Jeff and Rich have been involved in entrepreneurship all their lives. As teenagers, they bought and sold HUD houses. As young adults, they started and sold one of the world's leading Arabian horse breeding operations, and bought, grew and sold a consumer products import company. True to the innovative thinking and boundless energy that is their standard, they went on to become inventors of patented products that have been licensed and commercialized by Fortune 500 companies (including the Battery Buddy®, which prevents car batteries from dying).

The Sloan brothers’ enthusiasm for startup companies led them to create Sloan Ventures in the mid-90's. This early-stage venture development and financing firm focuses on creating business plans, recruiting entrepreneurial management, and raising startup capital for technology-based businesses. Sloan Ventures has infused over $60 million in financing into fast-growing technology companies.

Jeff and Rich Sloan have made several television appearances on TV stations like CNN and Fox to share their expertise on building and growing startup companies. Today, they offer their entrepreneurial advice via www.startupnation.com, as hosts of the nationally-syndicated StartupNation Radio program, and in their book, “StartupNation: Open for Business” (Doubleday). They are frequent guest lecturers at leading business schools and often appear in national print and broadcast mediums.