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How do you test your start-up idea? Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how he has successfully started a dozen businesses by including a "sanity committee" in the process as a way to test his ideas against reality.

This entrepreneur is relaunching his great-great grandfather's 150 year old brewery.Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his efforts to get a family brewery started up again, having been founded in the 19th century.

What's the single most important thing for start-up success? Jim Blasingame reveals that regardless of industry of background, the key to success in a start-up is having enough capital until there is sufficient cash flow from customers.

Do you have the personality that will allow you to work alone successfully? Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the role personality plays in whether you can successfully work alone from home.

Do you have stay-home-itis? Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to warn home-based business owners about the natural tendency to spend too much time inside your four walls and not get out into the marketplace regularly.

Here are three things all successful entrepreneurs do. John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that successful entrepreneurs know what their customers expect, how to be innovative and are resilient in the face of adversity.

Here's a great entrepreneurial story that will make you smile. John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to relate the story of how SAP CEO Bill McDermott got his start as a teenage entrepreneur by doing some innovative customer service practices.

Here's a story about how to grow a small pastry business. Bridget Labus joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how she and a partner started and are growing their pastry business after years of being a good employee.

Are large contractor diversity programs serving small business? Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to report on the challenges of working with diversity program liaisons of large contractors and why they aren't serving small businesses as they well as they could.

Want to start a business because you don't have a job? Jim Blasingame offers his thoughts on some of the issues involved if you want to start a small business because you don't have a job, including some points on why this might not be a good idea.