The Banana Stand provides consulting targeted towards potential small business owners just taking their first steps. If you're willing to put in the work and are ready to enjoy the freedoms and joys of being in business for yourself but you're looking for someone to bounce your ideas off of before you blindly "dive in" , then keep reading. After building a small computer sales/service store into a successful franchise, revitalizing an aging regional security systems dealer, expanding a local entertainment company into an international sensation, all while helping to incubate eBay, Amazon, and independent e-commerce stores, for-profit online publishing, direct marketing systems, AND smartphone apps, our President, Brian Hogan, decided it was time to share some of his knowledge. Joining forces with CEO Josh Primack, a long-time copy editor, entrepreneur, and State Wrestling champion, was an easy equation as the two already offered their advice freely to restaurateurs and other bus