{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 3","description":"Welcome to DI Squared\u2026.a ten-part weekly feature of KBOO News   DI Squared stands for \u201cDream it, Do it.\u201d Our guests for this show are Eric Ufer, Pest Solutions, and Tony Campbell, City of Portland. Is there ANYONEworking in a business, large or small, maybe a factory, or a store, or in the government, or maybe a radio station,\u2026ANYONE\u2026who hasn\u2019t thought, and maybe even dreamed, of starting their own business, and working for themselves?  ANYONE?  Maybe you\u2019ve got passion and a vision to do something, but you\u2019re in one of those minimum wage jobs where you struggle to make ends meet.  Or maybe you\u2019re a contractor in our gig economy where you get short-term contracts that pay okay but have no health care, no vacation, not even a desk.  Not to mention a future\u2026  You could be a company of your own.  This is the third of ten episodes.  Each week we feature these three elements: First, a profile of afeatured entrepreneur, someone who\u2019s done it. Second, a featured resourcethat you can use to find funding or get other types of help.  Third, a burning question of the weekfrom a listener.   The entrepreneurs we\u2019re covering are all minority business people, most of them people of color, in the Portland area, and people who have created businesses that range from\u2026 asbestos removal to\u2026. wine-making.  Maybe their stories will inspire you.  Or maybe not. No matter, these are people who dreamed it, and then did it.  And that\u2019s what DI Squared is all about.  Today we\u2019re speaking with featured entrepreneur of the week, Eric Ufer.  Eric is passionate about bedbugs, cockroaches, rats and other critters that bug us.  Six years ago Eric started Pest Solutions, Inc.     And a quick heads-up: if you\u2019re a bedbug listening to this, you may want to get under the covers, there\u2019s some bad news coming.  Here\u2019s Eric to tell his story:  That was Eric Ufer, of Pest Solutions, a man who is passionate about\u2026bedbugs.  Our special guest this week is Tory Campbell, Director of the Office of ___________________, part of Portland Prosper, the economic development arm of the City of Portland. Besides managing the City\u2019s program to help entrepreneurs, Tory is an entrepreneur himself, the founder of ______________, a company that makes sauces\u2026.   And that brings us to our question of the week QUESTION   Listeners, you can learn more about what the City has to offer by looking at the Prosper Portland web site, making contact with them and asking for the help you need.  There are lots of resources out there that you can access in getting started.  Next week we\u2019ll continue to explore what it is that makes a person likely to be successful as an entrepreneur.  Just keep in mind that there\u2019s no one "right" set of characteristics for being a successful entrepreneur.   But as we learned today, like many deep commitments, it starts with passion, what The City\u2019s guy, Tory, called \u201chunger\u201d ---even if it\u2019s a passion whose object is the lowly bedbug.  That\u2019s it for DI Squared for today.  Thanks for listening. If you want to review what you\u2019ve heard just now, go to KBOO.com and look under evening news for today\u2019s date.  And send your question to theroadlive@gmail.com.  We\u2019d like to make your questionthe featured questionfor one of our shows.  We\u2019\u2019ll be back in a week! Tune in then for the next episode of DI Squared----Dream it,Do it.  And bedbugs, watch out\u2026don\u2019t say we didn\u2019t warn you\u2026  From KBOO News, I\u2019m Tom Flynn ","author_name":"theroadlive podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/theroadlive.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"