Jack Street has had a 25-year love affair with small business. Okay, it was more like a shotgun wedding with no honeymoon where Jack was forced to say "I do" after being fired from over 30 jobs. You see Jack's misguided bosses were unable to appreciate the superior management insight Jack had developed by age eighteen. After several unanticipated trips to the unemployment office, it became clear to Jack that self-employment was his destiny. Divining that if he didn't create a job for himself he'd be living out of a shopping cart, Jack became "highly motivated" to open a business.

Jack jumped into his first small business venture as a teenager and watched a series of his start-ups crash and burn, before finding the business that ultimately succeeded. Jack is now an accomplished small businessman...according to his mother. However, his success is still being hotly disputed, despite the fact that Jack has been self-employed for over 17 years, is co-founder of ePublicEye.com and owns interests in companies from California to Hong Kong. The controversy arises from the fact that though Jack has made a very respectable living, received several business awards and even made the cover of Your Company Magazine, he is still unable to consistently get the Bill Gates table at Seattle's five star restaurants.

One of Jack's entrepreneurial dreams led him into broadcasting, where for three years Jack hosted a daily radio talk show in Los Angeles. He later did a stint as co-host of the popular weekly current affairs television show, Life and Times. Now a seasoned media veteran, Jack has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including 20/20, CNN World Report and the Phil Donahue Show (remember him?). In 1999 Jack received an Emmy nomination in Los Angeles for his work as a correspondent on a weekly TV show called Making It. The show, which highlights small business success stories, has allowed Jack to interview dozens of America's most successful small business owners about the struggles and thrills of starting and growing a business.

This experience as a broadcaster and small business owner leads Jack to ask the kinds of questions that only come from someone who has "real life" experience with small business challenges. Jack understands first hand how e-business solutions that sound so right can be so wrong and knows the kinds of questions business owners need to ask to avoid making the big mistakes.

Who is Mini Jack?

Well, Mini Jack has been around small business and broadcasting for just about as long as Jack. Though Mini Jack shares Jack's entrepreneurial spirit, after buying his first two Brooklyn bridges, Mini Jack became a little more skeptical about those business propositions that sound too good to be true. I guess that's why Mini Jack's questions are a little more cynical, a little more in your face and tend to have a harder edge than Jack's. But hey, the little twerp, with his twisted humor, provides just the grain of salt needed to analyze the endless stream of complex e-business solutions being shoved in front of e-business owners every day.