Here is what clients are saying about Gazelles.

- Scott Nash, CEO
My Organic Market

"Listening to you and implementing your recommendations are some of the best things that have ever happened to our business!

"After a full year of working with your concepts: one page plans, huddles, meeting rhythm, quarterly themes, a trip to Missouri to see Jack Stack, and foreword forecasting, we just wrapped up our best planning season that I have been involved with.

"It has been a tough year in the home building market, but despite that downturn we have come through pretty well. Next year is planned with a sober, high involvement sales plan, meticulous review of expense, and a focus to "train" our sales folks to be the best in the market.

"On top of all that we reworked our bonus plan, so that everyone is going to get a 'stake in the outcome.' I am about finished with The Inside Advantage and am still in hopes of pulling out the x-factor. I know we will be a lot closer once our team goes down the path of investigating the WHO, the WHAT, and the HOW... and then we will OWN IT!"

- Robert C. Hagood
TranSouth Logistics, LLC

"Our entire management team went through your training nearly two years ago (April 2006) and we continue to strive to master the Rockefeller Habits. We hold our daily huddle everyday company wide and we have really built the team concept thanks to your training.

"Recently, Fluent Language Solutions was named as having the Best Interpreters & Translators in Charlotte by RatedBestofCharlotte.com! With over 40 employees, we are very proud of this award and you and your team deserve a lot of credit for helping us manage outstanding results. By implementing the habits we have maintained a 98% retention rate with our employees and we will have double-digit growth again for the 13thstraight year. From a start-up with $88,000 in sales in 1994 to the largest interpreting and translating agency in the Southeast with over $6,000,000 in annual sales. "We are a model to other agencies around the country in how we go to market in our industry and we always credit what we learned in your trainings as a key part of our success. Thanks for all that you and your team do!

- James Pfeiffer
VP, Sales & Marketing
Fluent Language Solutions

"I have been a big proponent of Verne Harnish and his Rockefeller Habits Session. My personal experience is that this session was the single most important strategic step our company has taken forward in seven years. This from a guy (me) who used to be a Bain & Company strategy consultant who was paid to develop strategy for Fortune 500 firm's Verne showed me how to get it right for mid-sized firms. More importantly, the structure of the session, in which I brought my entire senior team to co-create our strategic document and process, was instrumental to the "stickiness" of behavioral change. Nearly two years ago we attended Vernen's session ... and our commitment to the behaviors of strategic success are stronger today than ever.

"We simply haven't made an investment in two years that has had a higher ROI. Now, whenever we bring a new member into our leadership team, they attend Verne's session there's no better way we know to bring someone up to speed rapidly."

- Michael G. Dougherty
Chairman & CEO
Kindermusik International Inc.

"Just a note to say thank you for the opportunity to sit in on your recent Rockefeller Habits seminar in San Antonio. As a life long learner, I believe in working harder on yourself than you do your business, and I have had the great opportunity to participate in many seminars. I continue to find your material the most valuable for the professional development of my organization and I eagerly await the opportunity to apply all that we discussed.

"Not only is your material extremely valuable, but what I appreciate even more is your company's commitment to the success of those strategies inside our company. Most authors, speakers, and consultants seem to only want to give you bits and pieces at a time to ensure that you have to continue to hire them time and time again to see the results inside your own company. On the contrary, you've provided us with all the tools necessary to take your material from theory to action in a very short period of time.

- Darren Patrick
Rainbow Play Systems

"Ammex has seen huge results since implementing the Rockefeller Habits over the last four years. Sales have increased from $6.7 million to $20 million, profits have increased over 400%, and we've opened up two new warehouses, added a dozen new Asian suppliers and opened our first overseas office in China.

We've implemented a one-to-one marketing program through our CRM tool to manage and enhance the relationships with our 13,000+ clients. We hold daily huddles, [determine] quarterly themes and maintain a monthly and quarterly off-site program for team leaders and members. The creation of these rhythms has produced positive results. Ammex has aggressively implemented a Topgrading program for existing and new team members. Despite a significant increase in revenues, the team has only doubled to a mere 37 team members. More importantly, with sales poised to grow to $30 million in 2004, we are projecting adding only a few extra team members. Lastly, by implementing open-book management, financial awareness has increased among the team and allowed us to become even more competitive in an ultra-competitive market. It's safe to say that had Ammex not made the Rockefeller Habits part of our corporate DNA, we would not be where we are today."

- Fred Crosetto, CEO
Ammex

We blew away our goal and added 20 people last quarter. Not only that, but Rich and Doug attended the TopGrading seminar at the start of the quarter, and as a result we are really excited about the quality of the people we added.

Our #1 priority for Q1-04 is to add $6M in qualified bid opportunities to our new business pipeline.. To that end, we rolled out a "Six Million Dollar Man" theme. We had video clips, music, and the Business Development VP even dressed up in a red sweat suit and red sneakers and came jogging into the room in slow motion while we had bionic sounds playing in the background. We tied in the intro to the show about being "Better, Stronger, Faster." It was awesome.

- Jack Harrington, CEO
Virtual Technology Corporation

Having participated in a dozen executive programs in various organizations over the last 20 years, I will tell you that your Rockefeller Habits Workshop is far and away the most useful and relevant I have attended. Yours is the first program that provides practical, implementable techniques that we've taken back to the office to change the way we operate.

When we first looked at the program schedule, I recall thinking how difficult it would be to get our principals together for two days out of the office, particularly in our fast-growing company. I now realize that those two days will have a considerably greater impact on our continued success for many years to come than anything else we might have accomplished during that time in the office. Thanks so much for the experience and for your outstanding efforts.

- Douglas C. Greenlaw
Vice President for Business Development
Virtual Technology Corporation

We are now in the middle of our 3rd year at ReStockIt.com and we are growing rapidly. We should do about $9 million in revenue this year, up from $5 million in 2005 and $1 million in 2004. Internet Retailer Magazine named us the 3rd fastest growing Ecommerce company (behind Blockbuster.com) and the South Florida Business Journal named us the #1 Fastest Growing Technology Company. We are using a bunch or your strategies (daily huddles, Quarterly Strategic Planning Meetings/Themes, Core Values/BHAG, etc). Thanks for giving us the tools to grow. And we really enjoy your Weekly Insights. Keep them coming!

- Matt Kuttler, Co-founder
www.ReStockIt.com

"I would like to send you 'A Thousand Thank-Yous'...

The last two days have been transformational for my team. A whole new world of possibilities has been opened up for them.

We left last night with our One-Page Strategic Plan virtually complete and loaded with stretch goals (accompanied by the drive to make it so).

I could not have communicated the ideas and practices to my team the way you and your team did for me. Our number one goal has now been reached...now for the next ones."

- Dan Lionello, CEO
Padtech Industries Ltd.

"As you know, I sent my team to the Rockefeller Habits workshop without me, the CEO. I think it turned out far better than if I was there, as did my staff. It let them think more freely and be in the spotlight. I also think out of the box ideas get floated when the boss is not listening. The team came back energized and have been implementing ever since. Please feel free to share this note with other CEOs concerned about sending their team without them."

- Rich Manders, CEO
AutomationSolutions

We feel that it was a home-run decision for us to attend the Rockefeller Habits Workshop and especially to have brought all our supervisory staff along as well. We immediately incorporated the ten -minute dailies. We have it at 10:10AM. We refer to them as our ten at ten to keep it simple. These have been quick, to the point, non-threatening, refreshingly transparent, team building and always productive.

Additionally, with your help we have finally nailed down six Core Values. To kick off our company's consciousness about these six, we will give an award that consists of hotel, airfare, and spending money to the employee that best exemplifies them. The employees anonymously vote for a fellow coworker...as I write this, the votes are coming in to me and the competition is thick. Results of the vote will be revealed at our annual Christmas party on the 13th. Exit polls thus far are telling me that everyone is psyched and focused on these values!

Furthermore, we launched two thematic campaigns rather simultaneously. First, we decided to reward each employee with a buck for every net customer we gained. We have consistently gained more customers each month since. The first three months bonus check was approximately $1200, and the next three months check (to be distributed in the first pay period in January) will be from $1500 to $1800 per employee. They are understandably motivated. All they have to do is stay focused on serving the customer (which is one of our core values anyway). The second campaign will interest you. If you recall, while we were there we had given the example of wanting to reach 2000 new customers before this December. Well, we threw that out as a debatable possibility. We reached it in October” the very first month we began it. Believe me, that was supposed to be a long shot!!

It is safe to say that most, if not all, of this positive activity was a result of your insightful seminar. We'll be back to others. Thanks.

- Irving Rivera, COO
AmeriMex Communications

I wanted to take the time to thank you for your 2 day course that you gave in Montreal. I have been a very active YPO member for close to 10 years, including being part of the YPO executive in Quebec and participation in many educational programs such as YPO/Harvard seminar. In all of that time, I had primarily invested in myself, while omitting my team. I was on "one page", and the team was clearly not aligned. Your course opened their eyes to possibilities and the joy of continuous life long improvement. The next day (Friday), one of my managers came into my office and was emotional about the reasons why he loved CBCI THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN EVERYDAY. There is a general feeling of what we can accomplish if we work together and align our organization according.......mediocrity is no longer an option.

- Jeff Speak, CEO
CBCI Telecom

"When I first started my company it was pretty easy to make sure everyone on the boat was paddling in the same direction. As I grew I found myself struggling to manage our momentum. I spent a lot of time taking paddles out of peoples ears and found myself trying to keep people from paddling the customer. Reading Verne’s Rockefeller Habits book and attending one of his seminars with my people turned everything around. I've been using Verne's tools to keep everyone rowing in the same direction ever since. Verne's Rockefeller Habits ensure I have company wide alignment. These concepts helped me take the company to levels I never thought possible."

- Ann S. Price
President/CEO
Motek

Having first gotten a taste of Verne's tools at MIT, I was already familiar with some of the "Rockefeller Habits." Then I read Verne's book, which helped answer some more questions. But it was only after attending the two-day workshop with my entire exec team that the entire "system" clicked into place.

After the class, we made several immediate changes:

1. We focused our Standard, Smart and Critical numbers and reworked them into our daily number review.
2. I went to Home Depot, bought three 4x8 white boards and put them up in our conference room. We literally used sheet rock screws and a cordless drill. We renamed the conference room the "bullpen."
3. We put our BHAG, Key Brand Promise and Strategic Anchors up in red ink. We created graphs for our Smart and critical numbers, and now track those every day during our "9:55am" huddle.
4. We had our first "monthly" four-hour meeting the Tuesday following the workshop. and worked in our first ever formal financial review. Boy, did I feel naked sharing all the nitty gritty with the entire team. But, everyone was synched up and aligned on what needed to be done to increase financial performance.
5. Our internal communications now include everyone involved in a process or issue. No one who touches an issue gets left out only to "hear it through the grapevine." When an issue comes up, we quickly huddle everyone involved in the bullpen, focus on brand promise and our strategic anchors, speak frankly and openly, and then move on. We're taking care of more issues more quickly than ever before.
6. We posted the company Top 5s and individual Top 5s in all workstations.
7. We realigned our mission around our strategic anchors and brand promise. In fact, the second day of the workshop, I decided to divest an entire division as it didn't meet our brand promise or newly revised mission. Within one week, I had a LOI to sell that division, and am generating more than enough cash from that sale to eliminate our need for a bank line of credit.

In short, it's incredible how hooked up and aligned both the exec team and entire company have become in a very short time. We all have an unbelievable amount of focused energy. We're "high" all the time. I had been looking for a "system" that made sense to me. But now I have a whole set of habits that work for our entire team.

- Roger Scheumann, President
Quartermaine Coffee Roasters

"As I mentioned, since sending all our staff to RH we have seen tremendous results. YTD Orders have increased nearly 75%. While I cannot attribute all the growth to the seminar the alignment and communication certainly has helped.

What is most amazing though is the much lower level of stress the daily and bi monthly huddles have created. During the year 2000 we experienced a 25% growth rate and we were all stressed beyond belief, making lots of mistakes mostly due to bad communication and overload. Now we are nearly doing double the business with the same staff, and less stress. Pretty much magic in my book.

In reality, by all of us communicating for 10 minutes every day we eliminate hours of redundant communication a week. For example, before we huddled I would call each of our folks or meet with them most every day for 10 minutes each at least=70 minutes per day that I was tied up verses 10-15. It is like gaining a day each week. But that is just part of the story, by all talking together we get the chance to share ideas, load share, pass information and keep aligned every day. I have to say I was really surprised by how few in the seminar were doing this simple task."

- Richard Manders
President/CEO
AutomationSolutions

Thank you once again for your insights during the seminar in Atlanta earlier this week.

I feel I got as much out of your teaching the second time around as I did the first. My International Team loved the experience and appreciated the opportunity to learn from you.

The Habits are already making a significant difference in the way we operate at Crown Financial Ministries, and I believe that it will have a huge impact as we move forward in reaching our goal in all 237 nations.

Ron did a great job of facilitating us the next day.

- Dr. Richard R. Wynn
Sr. Vice President International
Crown Financial Ministries

Verne, its been about 14 months since I dragged my "Fab 5" key managers to your Rockefellers conference in Atlanta last October...we were at the end of a killer year where we felt some pain from a big growth year in 2003 (we've grown about 400% since 1999 to just under $10 million in billings). I felt the team needed to re-gain focus on what we were doing, establish some short and long term goals and all get on the same page...well, 2004 will go down as one of our best year's over our ten year history!!!

The entire team gets together everyday for our 2:02 meeting to discuss what's going on and where we're stuck and we even invite clients and vendors who are at our agency to participate when the 2:02 bell goes off. Additionally, we sometimes change our 2:02 format and just tell stories about core values experiences or highlight personal plans for the weekend. For the first few days, the phones rang off the hook during the 2:02 until we could inform our clients about the 2:02...now, they know not to call at that time.

The net is we all live our core values, look forward to our BHAG and we all (25 of us) are heading to Jamaica (with spouses) after we all exceeded our annual goal of 25% top and bottom line growth (we actually exceeded 35%) to celebrate our 2004 theme of "Serenity Now!"

I know it was the Rockefeller Habits workshop that was our catalyst for getting everyone on the same page again. Better meetings, better communication and awesome focus on our future...a big thanks to you and your workshop for putting us back on track!!

Thanks for helping us get great!

- Steve Randazzo
(St. Louis EO Member)
President
Pro Motion, Inc.

“Big Bear got so much out of this program (we went to Toronto last summer for this) that we are going again! I have two new members of our team - and want them to get up to speed - on a program that saved us $12,000 in payroll -per month! (we used the program to track production and cut out a ton of unproductive hourly wages).”

- Greg Edwards,
CEO
Big Bear

"I can't imagine running a company without the daily huddles. It sets the tone for the day and creates accountability and communication throughout the organization."

- Dan Gould
President
Synergy
(a two-time Inc. 500 company)

"Verne has been working with growth firms for almost two decades. I've found his counsel and tools insightful and helpful to growing firms."

- Brad Feld
Managing Director
SOFTBANK Venture Capital

"Verne's principles have had a dramatic positive impact on our company. Over the past three years his tools have helped propel our company to the Inc. 500 list (# 17)."

- Mark Holland
President and CEO
Ascend HR Solutions

"Verne's Tools have made a dramatic and effective difference in my company. They have aligned everyone from the top to the bottom and focused us on our daily behaviors, which precede our most audacious goals."

- Will Andrew
President
WAC Sportwear

"I've read dozens & dozens of business books in the last 15 years. However, if the question is which 3 business books have had the most impact on how I personally, try to run BOWA Builders, my answer would be the following.

1. Built to Last Jim Collins
2. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive Pat Lencioni
3. Mastering the Rockefeller Habits Verne Harnish"

- Lawrence N. Weinberg
CEO
BOWA Builders
"Hi Verne,

Adam Cruickshank (Fourmark) here, just wanted to drop you a line to tell you how much we enjoyed spending the two days with you, tons of take home and very pumped, lot's of clarity around the issues we need to tackle. I will highly recommend this course to anyone I can. Thanks for all of your efforts to you and your team."

- Adam Cruickshank
Fourmark.com

"Since we've been working with Les Rubenovitch, our Gazelles coach, my whole company now meets daily (each has a 10 minute huddle) - management first, then down to the teams. We do 'What's up, where are you stuck, metric update and good news.'

"It has completely realigned the company with communication and efficiency. Proof -- we are having record sales and cash flow by far with minimal stress. Before we were very stressed and having the worst months ever (just six months ago!) We have a quarterly theme (CASH!) and will celebrate by going to Six Flags when we reach our cash goal."

- David Mammano
Founder/CEO
Next Step Publishing, Inc.

"One of our front line team members who I brought along to the Rockefeller Habits workshop said that listening to you today--and getting a sense about where a lot of what I preach has come from-- it suddenly made much more sense. Without question, the next time we can talk you into addressing our chapter, I'll be bringing an even larger contingent! Huge, huge value."

- Michael Jagger
President
Provident Security &
Event Management Corp.

"Thanks Verne. I thought you did an outstanding job on Thursday. I had my full senior management team at the session.

We are detailing all key ideas and processes you discussed and will be priortizing them. We want to pick 2 or 3 to start and make them a success and then go from there. We have decided that we willbring our whole company into the Rockefeller Habits program as the shared methodology for building our company.

Even before prioritization of our list, we have instituted the daily 15 min meeting which is scheduled in everyone's outlook forever into the future starting Monday.

As CEO, I will be fully utilizing your tools and making full use of your sight. Thanks for making all this stuff readily available."

- Patrick Rooney
President and Chief Executive Officer
Navarik

"Verne's recent Rockefeller Habit's presentation to the SF Bay - Young Presidents' Organization was a success! While many business resources focus on theory, Verne delivers practical tools which can immediately impact corporate results. Verne's fast paced, entertaining presentation style enabled him to cover the Rockefeller Habits while customizing the program on the fly in order to address burning issues on our CEOs' minds. Verne's very high rating for this event is simply par for the course for the Growth Guy."

- Zack Stenger
Education Chair
SF Bay Young Presidents' Organization
2006 Go for Growth Summit in Houston.

What an event! Here's what Citizant did: We rounded up our top 11 management team and sent them Houston. Our team was pulled away from the daily grind to open up their minds to best practices from business icons like Buckingham, Hoover and Hall. For two solid days they listened, learned, laughed and digested. One of my folks said it would take 6 months to fully process the fire hose of great information. We bought the books, bought the DVDs, and bought the add-on courses and seminars. This stuff is brilliant and it is pure executive training.

Then we stayed an extra two days to do our 2007 Strategic Planning. 11 executives, with 2 solids days of best practices swimming around in their heads (instead of the daily grind) were able to make BREAKTHROUGH progress on next year's plan. What better time to do planning right after some refreshing and mind opening speakers.

Here's what the team said: They want to attend both events next year; they want more; they had WOW ideas during and after the sessions. I got 3-page emails over the weekend from execs just pouring out fresh ideas - they were invigorated! Just the stuff we needed to make the juices flow after a long year.

Thanks Verne! Thanks for keeping us great!

- Raymond Roberts
Chief Executive Officer
Citizant Corporation

More Testimonials

"On behalf of the Board of Directors and members of the American Council of Independent Laboratories, I want to thank you most sincerely for the time and effort you gave to making our 66th annual meeting a great success. Your insights and remarks on Dominating Your Industry: The Four Critical Decisions were enthusiastically received by your audience and helped to make this a memorable event for all involved. Your session earned a unanimous "6" out of "6", with such comments as "Outstanding session!" "High energy-high value speaker!"
- Joan Walsh Cassedy, CAE Executive Director

"We've seen immediate results from using Verne Harnish's tools. We have more focus, we are setting priorities and sticking to them, and our execution has improved dramatically. In the first quarter, we increased our utilization rate by 25% and improved our bottom line significantly. By discovering and articulating our core values, our purpose, and our BHAG, we're creating true alignment throughout the organization. Because 75% of our employees are remote, keeping the whole company focused and connected is a challenge. Verne's tools and exercises have made our internal communications more powerful and have improved connectivity and inclusion for all CDGers, not just the management team. This stuff really works!"
- Cynthia Driskill, General Excellence National Winner, Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, Working Woman Magazine and President & CEO, CDG & Associates, Inc.

"In the course of building Net2000 Communications from a small, private start-up, to a publicly traded company with over $150 million in annual revenues, I have found the management principles from Verne Harnish to be very effective in managing the hyper growth and our increasingly complex organizational structure."
- Charlie Thomas, Chairman and CEO, Net2000 Communications,Vienna, VA

"I have found Verne's methods and insights informative, useful and easy to understand. His material has become fundamental tools for our company."
- Jojo Watumull, Vice President, American T-Shirt Company, Honolulu, Hawaii

"Verne Harnish is a clear thinker. He helped me understand the 'habits' that enabled me to build my business."
- Jeffrey Dennis, President, Flagship Capital Partners Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"The tools you have given Event Network have become cornerstones of our growth and engrained in our culture."
- Larry Gilbert, President & CEO, Event Network, La Jolla, California

"Verne teaches basic principles, honesty in all your endeavors, and a human touch that has helped the company stay on course."
- Fransisco Esteban Lainez, Laboratorios y Drogueria Lainez, S.A. DE C.V., El Salvador

"The daily meetings, weekly meetings and quarterly/retreat meetings with the executives and then cascading the same meeting structure to the subsequent levels of management and employees have given Pilgrim Software, Inc. the discipline needed to communicate the company's direction, tackle day-to-day operation issues and promote a sense of urgency effectively. Everybody who is involved provides positive feedback on this new change."
- Ami Utji, CEO & President, Pilgrim Software, Inc., Tampa, FL

"Verne has a unique gift to turn complex problems into simple solutions. I have always walked away from his sessions with a much clearer idea of what I needed to do as a CEO."
- Sam Goodner, President & CEO, Catapult Systems, Austin, TX

"Verne told me things that I have never heard before. His simplistic yet revolutionary approach to the fundamentals of business is head spinning! After really digesting what Verne taught me, I immediately strategically positioned my company for what I now know ultimately will happen on the course of rapid growth."
- Bruce Smith, President and CEO, Safety Vision, LP, Houston, TX

"I have introduced a number of tools that Verne has provided to our management staff. This has allowed us to create the foundation which is critical in building a successful company."
- Scott S. Smith, President, Coalition America, Inc., Atlanta, GA

"The entrepreneurial experience can be exciting and rewarding while at the same time lonely and tragic. Through Verne Harnish's leadership programs the opportunity to come together with like-minded business leaders and harness our collective energy within proven frameworks is second to none."
- Brian J. Hansell, Executive Vice-President, Ball Harrison Hansell, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

"The knowledge I gained from Verne's materials has provided me with fantastic insight both for my business and my personal well-being. I take full advantage of any opportunity I have to learn from Verne."
- Brad Schy, The Ticket Maestro, Musical Chairs Ticket Service, Brentwood, California

"I am not generally inclined to participate in group training and group programs, but with the MBD, they take the obvious, bring it back out and reaffirm the importance of it. I think that will help us to achieve a five-fold growth next year."
- S. Blake Swensrud, President and CEO, IMC-International Mobil Communications, Inc.

"If you measure success in terms of 'take home value,' Verne's work is A+. Fiberlink would not be the company we are without Verne. He helped us understand the challenges and changing dynamics as the company grew from 10 to 50 to 125 employees. His predictions and prescriptions were spot on and proved the ultimate in preventive medicine."
- Jim Sheward, CEO, Fiberlink, Blue Bell, PA

"After my first session with Verne, we immediately made several fundamental changes to our organization and the definition of its objectives. Without that kind of correction, we would surely have struggled much harder through the fast growth phase of our business."
- Dave Gheesling, President & CEO, FloorExpo, Inc., Lithia Springs, GA

"Verne's concepts can be applied to any company at any time for near immediate results."
- Keith Rinzler, mediavehicles.com, Atlanta, GA

"Verne's specific business tools and commandments were so concrete that putting them into effect in our office had an immediate measurable impact on the business and our people. With Verne's help we set a goal of expanding, profitably, to six cities in one year. Our executive staff is now working together to keep each other, and our business on track for the next goals in our long-term vision of a mature business."
- Pete Patterson, President & CEO, Capital Recovery Group, Houston, TX

"Business management is a vastly complex undertaking. Harnish's tools, methodologies and simple truisms (like "Doing the Right Things, Right) help eliminate what can be the blinding complexities, and in turn bring clarity to the process of aligning, and better managing the business enterprise."
- Mark D. Gordon, Chief Energizing Officer, Synergy Networks, Inc., Vienna, Virginia

"Verne sketched his quarterly planning outline for me on the back of a napkin, and two weeks later all of my employees were applauding my new master plan. All of Verne's tools are simple and brilliant, and Verne is simply brilliant."
- Raymond King, Past Founder and CEO of Semaphore, Inc., Co-Founder of SnapNames.com, Inc., Portland, OR