Life is a series of evolving chapters. For the now 68-year-old Burns, those

chapters have featured one constant theme — a thirst for launching and growing business ventures. The serial start-up entrepreneur has started, operated, sold, and/or expanded 150-plus companies in many industries. He started the first moped rental business in America as well as the nation’s first college for entrepreneurship. Later came a travel company that spawned a partnership with the country of Vietnam, yielding him a share of the revenue from every travel dollar spent and every e-VISA issued to tourists. These are only a sampling of the aforementioned 150-plus enterprises. His affection for spearheading new enterprises remains, complemented by a passion for offering funding and guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs in fields as diverse as his own roster of ventures.