His presentation was very interesting and I found that I could connect a lot of what he has done with some of my own experiences.

It turns out that his first company, M & S Enterprises, made software to index his baseball card collection, but nobody wanted to buy the software so his parents bought him the modem he was saving for anyway. At that point he got online and met some people that were doing the same thing as him, had a small website, and they decided to merge their sites together. This turned into MyDesktop.com. Later he owned buybuddy.com. Buybuddy was a site you could while buying anything. You put in what you want and it told you how much it cost at each store and where you get it for the best price.

I actually learned a lot about entrepreneurship and how to start a business today. He explained how you have to make sure you cover the legal end with contracts and such. He also explained that you have to know the people you are working with before you cover the legal stuff. As he had a few people in a company that didn’t contribute because they already owned part of the company.

My favorite part of the whole thing was probably when someone asked, “What web-design software do you use?” Michael said that he uses Dreamweaver, which is obviously what I use. However, he also said that he would go in chats and find out what code people are using and “view source” to figure something out. This is exactly what I do. If I see a certain feature in a site that I like I’ll “view source” and find out how to do it. I also like to use forums and bulletin boards. The WordPress support forums are especially helpful.

Overall it was a good day. After listening to Michael we went to Kewpee for lunch.