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Interview With James D Kidd, CPA

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Interview with James D Kidd, CPA on starting a small professional business.

The interview cabe found here: daninteriew

James D Kidd, “Dan” is a local accountant who has operated in the Jackson County, North Carolina area for well over twenty years.  His specialty is assisting small startup businesses in the area.  Originally from South Carolina, he started his first solo practice approximately 40 years ago.  Currently he has a staff of three to five accounting associates and two office assistants.  He makes a special effort to support and assist students at WCU who are interesting in pursuing accounting as a profession.

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Interview with Jim Orr of Uppercut Promotion

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While here at Western Carolina University I have met a plethora of people that I now hold close and dear to my heart. One of these people is Conner Orr, A tight end for the WCU football team. His father is Jim Orr, an Entrepreneur and the subject for my entrepreneur interview

Jim received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia in Business Administration. He worked for IBM directly out of college; soon after this he opened his own dry cleaning business for 10 years before selling it. His next couple of jobs was with MTI whirlpools, SFI and most recently he worked for National Print Group Incorporated in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While working for this business he simultaneously began his company Uppercut Promotions Incorporated.

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“Believe in what you are doing” – my interview with agricultural entrepreneur Sam Dobson of Dobson Farms

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Statesville Record & Landmark feature on Sam Dobson’s Grass-fed Beef Operation.

Thank you very much for agreeing to this interview today. Could you please tell us about yourself?

Sure. Sam Dobson from the northern part of Iredell County. I think I’m the tenth generation on this dairy and now, grass-fed beef farm. We’ve been in the dairy business since 1939, and before that we farmed the traditional cotton and tobacco, and maybe some small grains since the late 1700’s. We have transitioned over the last few years after looking at organic dairying, and transitioning with that process as well as starting a grass-fed beef part of the operation in 2006. We’re moving forward with that. I’m married – I have a wife Sherry, and one son Chase, who’s five; so there’s another generation coming along! And we just kind of hang out here on the farm and try to make things go.

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