I caught the entrepreneurial bug early on. I grew up in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, where my parents settled in the early 1900s after immigrating to the United States from Italy. Members of my family and extended family owned and operated restaurants, grocery stores and a women's sportswear business. Growing up, I participated in all the family businesses, and that was the fire that lit my interest in entrepreneurship.After high school, I spent several years as a musician playing jazz saxophone around the country and three years serving in the military at Fort Bragg in North Carolina before going off to college. I ultimately decided to pursue a career in academics, focused on entrepreneurship, thanks to the urging of a professor and now dear friend at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Author: Rudolph P. Lamone
