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Father and Entrepreneur at La Jolla Amago, California

Starting at the Age of 19, Peter J. Burns III has begun, operated, purchased and sold well over 100 companies in dozens of markets. Nantucket Island was the home of Burns' first"actual" business-importing mopeds out of Austria and being the firrst from the nation to let them vacationing tourists. After making $55,000 in just 10 weeks out of his summer"job," Burns chose his shuttle fleet and set up store on Sanibel Island, Florida for the winter season.

Ultimately, he enlarged into 100 Markets such as Maui, St. Kitts, Boothbay Harbor, Key West, adding rental products such as bikes, roller blades, jet skiis and even Harley Davidson motorcycles and exotic automobiles to his leasing fleet.

Burns expanded his entrepreneurial Fire to these businesses as magazine publishing utilizing the unique"Insertazine" format, started among the first email advertising companies, started a mens retail clothing shop, obtained and developed commercial real estate, founded the biggest entrepreneurial network in the U.S. (Club Entrepreneur), opened the initial entrepreneurial resource centers (eFactory, Club E Office) and created the Nation's first accredited College of Entrepreneurship at Grand Canyon University.

Burns was at the U.S Army as an Infantry soldier, was first appointed to the United States Military Academy (West Point), went via the United Stated Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS), won an Army 4 Year ROTC Scholarship and attended the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. He was the youngest ever selected (age 29) for Harvard Business School's Representative and Presidents Management Program (OPM).
Burns has been Featured in hundreds of magazine, newspaper articles, radio and television Clips such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Phoenix Business Journal, Nations Business and CNN.

For more information please visit Peter J. Burns III.
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