Stefan broad and deep exposure to start-ups includes covering entrepreneurship as a business journalist, serving and fighting for entrepreneurs within the big business-dominated Chamber of Commerce as its Small Business committee co-chair, and as a business coach focused on SMEs. In addition, he’s long been in the trenches. At age 18, he joined a startup as its first full-time employee through its acquisition while balancing night school at Johns Hopkins for two years. Stefan later earned a BA in History from The College of Wooster and a MBA from Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership in Monterrey, Mexico. Stefan has founded companies on four continents—and he knows how to build them to last: one he sold is turning 25 years old in the heavily-disrupted print magazine publishing industry.