• Rules from the BABY’s Book on Becoming a Billionaire
  
  

  • Rule #172: Nothing good comes from excess.

  • Rule #106: If your behavior smells like s^***, it is s^***.

• East "meats" west. Debi Akin and her husband had an appetite for success and built a quality deli-style restaurant in southern California.

• Preparing tough cookies. The Girl Scouts’ annual cookie drive promotes business fundamentals for the next generation of women entrenauts. San Diegan, Rebecca Dolan, has sold more than 8,000 boxes to raise money and awareness for GSA.

• Standing on the platform. Winners of the SDSU Venture Challenge earn "gold" with their business plan to develop a team portal software platform for collegiate and professional sports.

• When losses are non-cents...Neil puts “windows” in the Corporate Hall of Shame to air out the stench of stinky businesses like myCFO.

Debi Akin is the co-founder and co-owner of D.Z. Akin’s, one of San Diego’s most popular restaurants. She and her husband started the restaurant-deli 27 years ago in 1,600 square feet in La Mesa. Since then, it has expanded to 10,000 square feet and in addition, it operates a successful catering business. Akin also finds the time to serve as a volunteer business counselor for SCORE (link to www.score.org), a national organization affiliated with the U.S. Small Business Administration to provide pro bono business advice and support to entrepreneurs

David Graff, Brian Kaiser and John Wirtz won first place in San Diego State University’s Venture Challenge business plan competition which drew 20 universities from around the world. The three represented the University of Nebreska, Lincoln. Their company-- Agile Sports Technologies (link to: www.agilesportstech.com)-- is building a software platform for collegiate and professional athletics.

Rebecca Dolan, a San Diego Girl Scout, has sold over 8,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies during her seven year Girl Scout career. About 200 million boxes were sold nationally this year, of which two million were purchased in San Diego where about 15,000 girls participate. In 2002, the local chapter started Operation Thin Mint which allows consumers to buy boxes that are sent overseas to our military. On May 12, the Girl Scouts will celebrate sending their one millionth box. The event is being held at the U.S.S. Midway at 9:30 a.m.