ANN ARBOR – Attention Entrepreneurs: Barry Moltz is returning to Ann Arbor on December 14. Plan to join the IT Zone, Company of Friends, MI-SBTDC and the Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest for a presentation designed to inspire your entrepreneurial spirit.

Barry is the best-selling author of You Need to be a Little Crazy, a book that tells it like it is for entrepreneurs. Barry debunks the myths of business start-ups by telling the truth: You have to be crazy to start a business. He delivers irreverent, straight talk about the complex interface between start-up business, financial health and private life, and augments it with personal tales from the entrepreneurial front.

Barry spent 15 years as an entrepreneur, co-founded Prairie Angels, an investment group in Chicago, and is on the Advisory Board of the Angel Capital Association ? the national professional alliance of angel groups.

In his own words ? this is Barry?s background:

I have worked for one of the largest companies in the world.

I have been promoted every year and received the highest awards from my employers. At times, I thought my career could only go up.

I have been fired more than once.

I have started three businesses.

I sold my last business, but I have also gone out of business and been kicked out of my business…(luckily, not in that order.

I have seen sales skyrocket one year and then seen them sink like a stone the next year.

I have hired hundreds of people and unfortunately, I have had to fire some of them.

Barry is a speaker at 100 business events a year. He has received numerous awards such as Angel of the Year and was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. He was chosen in 2001 and 2002 as one of the Top 100 people in Chicago?s Hi-Tech community.

Barry has written articles for many national publications. He writes a column, “The Business Bunker” on small business in E-Prairie and a local Chicagoland newspaper, The Business Ledger. He also provided content for another book, Attracting Capital from Angels, by Dee Power and Brian Hill.

Plan to spend a couple of hours on Thursday, December 14 being entertained, inspired and informed by this dynamic speaker. Watch the Weekly Update for the time, location and registration information for this event.