Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business.

The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way.

This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues,

challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of

the How of Business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of the How of Business. This is

Henry Lopez, and my guest today is Dr. D. Anthony Miles, Dr. Miles, who we're going to refer to as D.

Welcome to the show.

Henry, thank you for having me.

I've been looking forward to this all week.

Same here.

Thanks for being with us.

Dr. Miles is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Miles Development Industries Corporation.

And they're a consulting practice and a venture capital acquisition form. Dr. Miles is an award winning professor and researcher.

He also serves as a legal expert witness who provides expert testimony for local

state and federal court cases. Very interesting. We'll chat about that if we have time.

Dr. Miles is also a radio talk show host and executive producer of Game on Business Talk Radio

Show. A nationally known expert in the field of entrepreneurship and marketing,

Dr. Miles is a bestselling author of Risk Factors and Business Models, Understanding the Five Forces

of Entrepreneurial Risk. And we're going to do a deeper dive into some of the great topics

in that book on our episode today. We'll start with his

entrepreneurial journey, where he started and how he got to where he's at today, and then talk

about these risk factors that entrepreneurs have to face and mitigate and overcome to be

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