Barry J. Moltz

Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck. He has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 20 years.

After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation.

His first book, "You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business" describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fourth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai. His second book, "Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success", shows what it takes to comeback and develop true business confidence. His third book is called, "BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World" which shows how social media and self service makes customer service, the new marketing! His fourth book, "Small Town Rules", discusses how when every customer can talk to every other customer, it's like we all live in a small town. His fifth book,"How to Get Unstuck: 25 Ways to Get Your Business Growing Again" shows small business owners finally how to move their business forward to financial success. His sixth book with Rieva Lesonsky is called "Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Success".

Barry is a nationally recognized small business expert who has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000. As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he also has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has appeared on many TV and radio programs such as MSNBC's Your Business, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, NPR and The Tavis Smiley Show. He write regularly for American Express Open Forum.