{"id":208,"date":"2016-06-21T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobbevington.com\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:35:38","slug":"entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bobbevington.com\/?page_id=208","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been an entrepreneur since I was nine years old when I made cinnamon toothpicks and sold them at school for the astonishing price of two for a nickel. I started a lawn mowing service at age ten. I collected baseball cards and coins and eventually exchanged them as the downpayment on my first home purchase via a land contract.<\/p>\n<p>My first major entrepreneurial enterprise should have made me a millionaire before I reached age thirty. Instead, it went down in flames. I learned a lot in <em>The School of Hard Knocks.<\/em> Cost me almost as much as my college education&#8211;but no one ever sent me a sheepskin to hang on my wall. Glad I didn&#8217;t give up my day job!<\/p>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve lost track of all the startups I&#8217;ve been involved in. Some were successful. Some were duds. And a couple were home runs&#8211;most notably a LASIK company I co-founded which started with one location in 1998 and by the end of 2000 \u00a0had eighteen centers nationwide. I sold my equity position in 2001, which led to me selling my ownership in four optometry practices, effectively semi-retiring at age 45.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 became a co-founder of a medical development company that syndicated physician-owned surgery centers, imaging centers, sleep centers and specialty hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobbevington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Cruciform_Logo_1-10px-border1-2-300x34-300x34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"34\" \/>In 2010 I co-founded a Christian publishing company known as Cruciform Press. The word, <em>cruciform<\/em>, means &#8220;the shape of the cross.&#8221; Its focus is on publishing gospel-centered, Christ-exalting, easy-to-read, theologically-rich, relevant books that can be read from cover-to-cover in 2-3 hours. Cruciform Press published more than three dozen titles in the years I was involved in the company.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cruciformpress.com\">CruciformPress<\/a> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cruciformpress.com\">Website<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobbevington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sight4all-logo-300x98-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/>My most recent start-up is Sight4All, Inc which is\u00a0developing <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theeyescanapp.com\">TESA, The Eye Scan App<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It measures a person&#8217;s glasses prescription using nothing but an iPhone camera. I am a co-founder and served as Vice President of Business Development during the first four years from the inception of the company. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been an entrepreneur since I was nine years old when I made cinnamon toothpicks and sold them at school for the astonishing price of two for a nickel. I started a lawn mowing service at age ten. 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