Matthew's Entrepreneurship Experience

LMServers: (September 2005 - Present)
Title: Owner

LMServers is a company that I started with a friend. I was simply learning how to setup a basic web and mail server for personal use. I initially setup lechleider.com on a server that I pulled out of someone's garbage. I quickly installed Linux, setup Apache, PHP, mySQL. Instantly I was maintaining a LAMP server from my home. The more I learned about this, the more I wanted to do. I soon learned that web hosting can be a profitable business. After doing more research I decided to take my project to the next level. I become a reseller for Savvis networks. I can now resell dedicate, shared, and collocated servers to clients. I am able to setup many different operating systems for clients as well as install software. The profit is very minimal, but is there. All of the LMServers are self sufficient in ways that clients are all paying the bills for me.

Lucky The Ice Cream Man: (April 2005 - Present)
Title: Owner

Yes, I am an ice cream man. My truck is pictured above. I purchase all of the ice cream from a Good Humor distributor in Barrington, IL. I drive out to Lake in the Hills, Illinois and sell ice cream house to house. Over the years I have grown to know many members of the community. Driving to someone's house every day really helps build a relationship. Being an ice cream man I have seen some interesting things happen in suburbia. I have been able to gain lots of sales experience, plus customer relations. Although, I must admit, customer relations are much easier when all of your customers are excited to see you.