A Master Class is .... a lesson taught by a working professional, not a teacher. The term comes largely from the arts when the working performers, often the best artists within their discipline, would come to a college to tell the students the inside story.

In each of these MasterClasses you learn the principles of business from somebody who applies them to practical problems most every day. In other words, they've been through the mill. They've worked every job. And, most of all, they have performed beautifully!

Small Business School is a weekly MasterClass for small business owners. Each week we work with local Chambers of Commerce and other area small business advocates to find those founders of businesses where they are loved by the community and respected within their industry. They are generous at home and are thought-leaders within their national trade association. Each MasterClass begins with the half-hour television show; these broadcasts are mostly on PBS-member stations and have been airing every week since 1994.

This passion to start a business is a profoundly American phenomena. The DNA for our entrepreneurism is deep within the roots of the American revolution. We can't help ourselves. We are adventurers and explorers and we attract those typesof people from all around the world.