Plain Spoken (samgerace.gather.com) is a collection of writings from my perspective as a Midwest entrepreneur. As you may gather from the title, I hope you find my thoughts on entrepreneurship, the interactive space, and technology to be simple and direct.  I look forward to your comments.  Jump into the conversation!

My background:  I’m a successful serial entrepreneur.  My companies have raised over $250 million in growth capital through the private and public markets during my twenty-four year career as a growth-company CEO, including over $2M in angel finance, over $50M in venture finance, and over $200M in the public markets.  I am currently the CEO of Veritix, a venture-backed sports and live entertainment marketing information systems and ticketing company.  I am the Founder and former CEO of Be Free (NASDAQ: BFRE), an Internet marketing information systems company, as well as PCX Information Systems, PCX Consulting, and Unmistakable Software.  In addition, I am a former Director of Valueclick (NASDAQ: VCLK) and Chairman of Ayalogic, Inc., a venture-backed voice game technology company.

From time to time I hope to invite thoughtful guests along to contribute posts.  Note that as this is meant to be a more focused conversation than some on Gather (hence the use of the blog format), I will edit the posts that appear here.  I do welcome potential submissions, but ask you to understand that I will include only those posts that meet my editorial goals for the blog. Thanks!