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November 2015

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80% of success is showing up.   — Woody Allen Erik Magner, PhD (president, Meister Cook ) and BetsyMagner (marketing manager, Meister Cook) issued a charismatic call to inventors — Don’t be afraid.   Find your passion and use it to start your own business.   Using their own success story to inspire us, Mr. Magner shared a 6-part strategy that helped them create in less than 10 years a 2-person company ranked by Inc. 5000 as the 41 st fastest‑growing company (2 nd fastest‑growing manufacturer) in the United States. Identify an important technical problem that you care about. William Osler (a founder of modern medicine) advised physicians, “ Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.”   Likewise in industry, listen to the experts; they will tell you what problems are commercially important.   Mr. Magner’s first challenge in the food industry was a client’s request for a more heat-efficient hamburger broiler.   The broiler he invented was so profitable