1:10 Career beginnings in the Army

• Went to West Point.
  
• Signed up for the Army at age 17 1/2.

4:15 First venture

• ImageTel International, Inc.
  
• Raised half million in venture capital while in school.
  
• “I can attribute a number of my successes to the training I received” in the Army.

• “I was always the one at the company meetings with my hand up asking when we were going to do profit sharing.”

• Won business plan competition at UCLA.
  
• Raised about $1 million from the Tech Coast Angels.
  
• Raised about $4 million more from venture capitalists.
  
• “The only two sports sites that had more than we did were CBS SportsLine and ESPN.”
  
• Got acquired by Active.com.
  
• “You can have the best idea in the world, and a fantastic team assigned to you – and I do believe that you make your own luck – but market timing really is very important.”

• “I guess it depends who’s editing it... just kidding.”
  
• “I could see a little bit of myself and my past in each of the other candidates: Raj’s wanting to be the center of attention. Andy’s creativity in coming up with ideas. John’s passion for stuff. Kevin’s work ethic.”

• “I understand that decisions have to be made with imperfect information.”
  
• “I trust my gut a lot more then I used to.”
  
• “You know when you know.”
  
• “At eteamz we kept one of those spin dials on the wall that would either be a smiley face or frowney face.”

• Started MotorPride by bootstrapping.
  
• CEO of CoreObjects that built software for software companies.
  
• “Seven or eight years ago venture capitalists wouldn’t give you money if you were developing your software offshore because they were concerned about the intellectual property. Now they require it.”
  
• “CoreObjects took advantage of that.”

21:00 Appearing on The Apprentice

• Being an entrepreneur “helped us [Bill Rancic and I] to excel in the different tasks.”
  
• “I did not attempt to be entertaining.”

• “I am definitely going to be spending a lot more time in real estate.”

• 40 Wall Street
  
• Trump Tower Tampa
  
• Trump Ice - “It’s the best water ever!”
  
• “The buck stops with me on Trump Ice.”
  
• “I haven’t had to fire anyone yet.”

• On Trump’s firing style: “That’s for the cameras and that’s a big part of the show.”

• “New York is the center of the business universe.”

• “I think that sometime down the road Mr. Trump and I’ll be working on stuff together.”

• Proposals can be sent to Kelly’s official Web site.
  
• Contact may be made through Kelly’s LinkedIn profile.

• Deal with Regnery Publishing.

• “The Apprentice allows for Monday morning quarterbacking for business.”

36:45 The future