George is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Partner of Red Rocket Ventures, a growth consulting, executive coaching, shared executive and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. George has consulted/mentored over 500 startups since founding Red Rocket in 2010. George desires to help other entrepreneurs navigate through their startup, fund raising or other business growth issues. George’s first book, 101 Startup Lessons-An Entrepreneur's Handbook, had over 400,000 reads online, making it a best seller in the entrepreneurship category. George was named to the Crains Tech 50 in Chicago, and is a contributing author on entrepreneurship for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Alley Watch, Founder Institute, Crains Chicago and others.