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Steve Teffenhardt

American, 43. CMO (Chief Motivational Officer and CEO) Pure Moxie, LLC, Business Incubator. Goals #1 Create the best possible team, #2 Motivate, #3 Delegate. Leader and Motivator, and jet pilot in a previous lifestyle..

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://www.PMdJ.com www.OttawaFlood.com
Industries: Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Travel
Skills: Business, Copy Writing, Editing, English, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, Guerrilla marketing, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Viral marketing, Web design, Writing
Next step: Motivation of people and Aviation are my passions. Moving my companies forward, by building reliable, intelligent teams of like motivated, dynamic and entrepreneurial people with diverse competencies. Always on the lookout for world class business mentors. As always, enjoy life while being a successful entrepreneur. Keep motivating others to do there best. Always of the mindset that crisis is an opportunity for innovation, professional development and entrepreneurial pursuits and profit.
Location: Ohio, USA
Groups: BASES E-Challenge 2012, BASES Social E-Challenge 2012, BASES Social E-Challenge Alumni Network, E-Challenge Competition 2008, E-Challenge Competition 2009, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], Social e-challenge Mentors 2009 , [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010, [INACTIVE] BASES Social E-Challenge 2010, [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE]
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services
Tags: Aviation, Entrepreneurship, floods, Green Screen Video Production, Hot Air Ballooning, Humanitarian Efforts, indoor/open water distance swimming, Marketing via Mobile Devices, Natural Disaster Recovery, pmdj, pure moxie, Sailing, social networking, Viral Networking, volunteering
Schools: Ohio State University System - Columbus

FEATURED STARTUP

Pure Moxie du Jour (PMdJ)

Pure Moxie du Jour (PMdJ) Pure Moxie du Jour (PMdJ)

The Pure Moxie du Jour is an email quote for Motivated, Entrepreneurial, Dynamic people who want to think positively. It's about leadership, goal setting, and inspiration to keep you being entrepreneurial. Think of it as a Vitamin-E(ntrepreneur)

  • Startup type: Social Enterprise
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

FULL BIO

American, 43. CMO (Chief Motivational Officer and CEO) Pure Moxie, LLC, business incubator born in 2002. Goals #1 Create the best possible team, #2 Motivate, #3 Delegate. President of just about every organization I have ever been in. Jet Pilot in a prior lifestyle. Potentially funny. Wants to save the world AND make money! Writer, Editor and Publisher of the Pure Moxie du Jour, a 3x per week motivational quote that goes out to approximately 215 dynamic, motivated and entrepreneurial people worldwide.

EDUCATION

University: Ohio State University System - Columbus
Time period: 1986 - 1991
Degree: Interpersonal and Organizational Communication Major, Aviation Minor, BA

PUBLICATIONS

Patents: None yet, but I still have about 18,000 days left to live statistically speaking.

INFORMATION

Sports: Indoor/Open Water Distance Swimming.
Hobbies: I write a M,W,F motivational quote called the Pure Moxie du Jour that I send to about 200 dynamic & professional people around the world. Send me an email if you would like to be on it. I have a 96% retention rate after almost 5 years now. If you would like to receive these and you are a motivated, entrepreneurial, and dynamic person, please do so at http://www.pmdj.com

Mentoring and motivating entrepreneurial thoughts in capable people. Very active in community arts organization. Active in the flooding recovery of our small community. President of a Professional-Collegiate Aviation Alumni Society. Cooking incredible food. Flying small aircraft, camping, and starting to become a professional volunteer.
Clubs: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), Long Term Recovery Task Force of Putnam County (flood related), Blanchard River Arts Guild (BRAG), Alpha Eta Rho International Aviation Fraternity (AHP) - past National President. President, past Ohio State University Alumni Aviation Society (OSUAAS) President
Memberships: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, National Business Aircraft Association

Steve's Startups (6)

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  • Flood Mashup

    Flooding events, due to hurricanes, heavy rains and large snow melts put many millions of people in peril every year. This is a project to construct online mashups of flood related elements to help people evaluate the bigger flooding picture.

  • WriteGreen.org

    WriteGreen is a nonpartisan tool that helps citizens shape environmental policy.

  • Pure Moxie du Jour (PMdJ)

    The Pure Moxie du Jour is an email quote for Motivated, Entrepreneurial, Dynamic people who want to think positively. It's about leadership, goal setting, and inspiration to keep you being entrepreneurial. Think of it as a Vitamin-E(ntrepreneur)

  • Ottawaflood.com

    Ottawaflood.com is the local version of a much larger potential web based NGO for helping post flooding event victims recover in a positive, information driven recovery. Help expand this obvious need to the North American Community.

Steve is Following (45)

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  • Social Networks and Water Provision to the Poor

    This is my doctoral thesis project. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to collect data on 600 organizations that provide water in Argentina. Social network analysis is used to understand how the structure of the network to which thes...

  • Rural Returns

    Rural Returns increases rural communities' incomes by helping them identify and develop their comparative advantages

  • Formula Magic

    Outrageous yet irresistible children's shoes. Formula Magic is a company that combines technical innovation with imagination.

  • IndieGoGo

    IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen.

Steve's Contacts (45)

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  • Chardon Nicholas

    Introduction: My Team and I, providing multimedia design service and high quality productions. Production of animations, video games and comic books.

  • john chu

    biomedical engineering silicon process engineer bio startup

  • Charles Naut

    Stanford CS major with an interest in entrepreneurship, technology, and social change.