Karen and LAUNCHfn.com helps small businesses get help developing and building their companies so that they can attract early stage capital and execute on their business strategies.

Recently, with the launch of OurFundingPlanet.com, Launchfn.com's family of companies has the broadest reach to serve investors and entrepreneurs in offline and online communities.  Karen's goal is to help 500 companies succeed at building good scalable and fundable businesses by the year 2013. 

Karen serves as President of  LAUNCHfn.com and managing director for NBAI.  She hosts a weekly radio show called the Compassionate Capitalist and shares here expertise via articles, interviews, webinars, and video blog messages to the members of the Entrepreneur Club Online.

For nearly 20 years, Jim DeBetta has been a leading consumer products business advisor to inventors and start-ups alike. During that time, DeBetta has helped successfully launch multiple companies and sold more than 50 million dollars of products through his own companies and for his clients to major retailers and catalogers worldwide.

Whether it is a new start-up or an established business with retail-ready products, DeBetta has helped his clients understand how to succeed in getting new products into major retailers in a very competitive business environment.

As the founder of DeCavi Corp, Jim has helped hundreds of inventors and start-ups learn how to get their consumer products developed and sold to the likes of Target, Wal-Mart and many other retail outlets nationally.

DeBetta merged his firm with the renowned Slingshot Product Development Group which employs a team of 35 engineers, designers, and marketing experts who help anyone from individual inventors to Fortune 500 firms. Today, he is the founder and CEO of DeBetta Enterprises which coaches and consults with inventors and those looking to develop and sell products to retailers.

Sue is a parenting expert, writer, speaker and parenting coach and the author of 'Raising Happy Children for Dummies. Her website is at: Positive-Parents.com.

She leads workshops, eCourses, teleseminars and 1-2-1 coaching programs to enhance, fine tune and give clarity, direction and confidence to parents.

Sue's passion is to empower and inspire millions of parents around the world with the strategies, techniques and skills they need to bring up happy, confident, well -balanced adults ~ today's children but tomorrow's future.