Steve Baker

Hi, I'm Steve Baker. I'm a serial entrepreneur who has a screaming passion for building business and enjoying life. I've started several successful companies and I'm a business advisor for startups.

Oh, and I live in glorious Colorado where I am THE Avid Poor Golfer! (if you doubt that, just GOOGLE Avid Poor Golfer) Please check out my website www.PushingWater.com.

I'm a director, host and frequent speaker of the Startup Junkie Underground, an entrepreneurial networking organization of the DaVinci Institute, a futurist think tank. As a public speaker, I love to share my contagious enthusiasm and passion for business to educate and inspire startup businesses and college students. I appear as a radio show guest discussing entrepreneurship and talking about winning and losing. I'm also a guest lecturer at the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business and other schools, spreading the entrepreneurial spirit.

I call myself a Successful Failure because I've won big and lost big and figured out how to live through both and keep enjoying life. I'm not a professional writer; I'm just a businessman with a story to tell. PUSHING WATER UPHILL With a Rake is my story of chasing the American Dream. If, in reading my story, business plans are shared, ideas are exchanged, an attitude is changed, or a dialogue is opened between two people that are experiencing failure and a relationship is saved, then I have achieved success and in that I will take great pride.

I wish you all great success and happy fulfilled lives.

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"We are not judged by the number of times we fail but by the number of times that we succeed. And the number of times we succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times we fail and keep trying." - Tom Hopkins

"If it's to be it's up to me." - ME

"The secret to success is not in knowing everything, it's in knowing what you DON'T know and finding those who do." - Me again...

'If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein