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2024 Press

**OPENPR:** “Burns Writes Column for Entrepreneur Magazine About Five Qualities Entrepreneurs Must Have to be Successful” *Nov 2024*
**CAL BIZ JOURNAL:** “Venture Debt Company Gets Creative in Helping Entrepreneurs Secure Capital” *Nov 2024*
**OPENPR:** “Burns Writes About the Value of Mentoring for Forbes Magazine” *Nov 2024*

**FOX 40 NEWS:** “Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Launches Personal Blog to Share Decades of Business Wisdom & Insights“ *Nov 2024*
**FORBES:** “Five Ways That Mentoring Can Make You A Better Entrepreneur ” *Nov 2024*
**NATIONAL BUSINESS POST:** “Election Fuels Surge In New Business” *Nov 2024*

**OPEN PR:** “Burns Pens Article For California Business Journal About Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities“ *Oct 2024*
**ENTREPRENEUR:** “Entrepreneurs Need to Develop These 5 Qualities to Be Successful” *Oct 2024*
**OPENPR:** “Burns Writes Column About the Growth of the Drone Industry for Entrepreneur Magazine” *Nov 2024*

**OPENPR:** “Peter J. Burns III Reflects on Over 40 Years of Entrepreneurial Excellence in Exclusive Online Interview“ *Sept 2024*
**CAL BIZ JOURNAL:** “Drones Are Transforming Industries — But Here Are 5 Things Entrepreneurs Should Know Before Investing in Them“ *October 2024*
**ENTREPRENEUR:** “Capitalize on Fragmented Industries for Entrepreneurial Success” *October 2024*

**BUSINESS MATTERS:** “An Exclusive Interview with Serial Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III” *Sept 2024*
**ACCESSWIRE:** “Peter J. Burns III Unveils The Orca Project: A Revolutionary Approach to Enhancing Beach Safety Through Predator Simulation” *Sept 2024*
**BENZINGA:** “Peter J. Burns III Reflects on Over 40 Years of Entrepreneurial Excellence in Exclusive Online Interview” *Sept 2024*

**DRONING COMPANY:** “Peter Burns III on his Innovative Growth Capital Strategies” *(Aug 2024)*
**FORBES:** “6 Signs To Watch For When Investing In A Passive Income Business” *(Aug 2024)*
**DRONING COMPANY:** “I Want to Be the Drone Financier” *(Aug 2024)*

**BENZINGA:** “Navigating The Storm: Peter J. Burns III Shares Strategies For Success Amidst Unprecedented Failures For Startups” (*Aug 2024)*
**EIN PRESSWIRES:** “Burns Funding Secures Growth Capital for The Droning Company” *(Aug 2024)*
**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “Burns Funding Equation, a Podcast, Features Entrepreneur Caroline Reynolds” *(Aug 2024)*

**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “Peter J. Burns, III Writes for Entrepreneur Magazine About How Credit Cards Can Help Entrepreneurs Grow Their Business” *(July 2024)*
**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “G. Sean Cassidy Joins Burns Funding as Director of Client Services” *(July 2024)*
**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “Burns Funding Partners with Midas Financial with Goal of Providing Millions of Entrepreneurs with Alternative Funding” (*July 2024)*

**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “Expert Suggests Rule Change, Other Factors Are Hurting Funding for New Businesses” *(June 2024)*
**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “Burns Funding Equation, a Podcast, Features Entrepreneur and Private Equity Executive Emily Crooke” *(June 2024)”*
**FORBES:** “Secured Versus Unsecured Debt: What You Need To Know” *(June 2024)*

**EIN NEWSWIRES:** “Peter J. Burns, III Pens His Latest Column for Forbes Magazine, Comparing Chess to Entrepreneurship” - *May 2024*
**EIN NEWSWIRES (Technology Today):** “Peter J. Burns, III Delivers Insights on How Much Capital Startups Need to be Successful in Entrepreneur Magazine Column” - *May 2024*
**EIN NEWSIRES:** “Burns Funding Equation, a Podcast, Features Serial Entrepreneur Shaye Larson” - *May 2024*

**CEO WEEKLY:** “Peter J. Burns III Dissects How Non-Traditional Financing is Shaping the Future of Startups“ - *Apr. 2024*
**INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES:** “Serial Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Reveals Unique Method To Help Aspiring Entrepreneurs Obtain Much-Needed Funding“ - *May 2024*
**FORBES:** “What Chess Can Teach Us About Entrepreneurship“ - *May 2024*

2023 Press

EIN Presswire: “Burns Funding Forms Strategic Alliance with IdeaPros, Bringing Alternative Funding Platform to Would-be Entrepreneurs” (Oct. 2023)

October 2022

**EIN Presswire:** “Burns Funding Secures $300,000 in a Matter of Weeks for Banker, Who Eyes Passive Income Opportunities” (Oct 2022)

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January 2022

**ValueWalk:** ***“Burns Funding Creates a Business Offering that Enables Passive Income Streams”*** **(Jan. 2022)**

December 2021- Resources and Knowledge for the Small Business CEO

BURNS FUNDING BINDS TOGETHER A BUSINESS OFFERING THAT PRODUCES PASSIVE INCOME STREAMS!

http://www.smbceo.com/2021/12/23/burns-funding-binds-together-a-business-offering-that-produces-passive-income-streams/

December ‘21 - Your top news on small business

Burns Funding Binds Together a Business Offering that Produces Passive Income Streams and 'Creates Residual Wealth’

October 2021 - EIN Presswire

Burns Funding Invites Creditworthy Individuals to Participate in Its Brokerage Program!

September 2021 - EIN Presswire

Peter J. Burns III Invited to Speak at 'Family Office Trends for 2021 and Beyond' Conference

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August 2021 - SMB CEO

Serial Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Selected By Forbes To Be Columnist, Writes First Column About The Need To Support Female Millennials- SMB CEO

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August 2021 - EIN Presswire

Millennial Queenmaker ‘Kickstarts’ the Performing Career of Valerie Grace Vadas

August 2021 - EIN Presswire

Millennial Queenmaker Helps Female Entrepreneur Launch Her First Business - Jomo Boutique, EIN Pressire

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August 2021 - EIN NewsDesk

Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Selected as Forbes Columnist, Writes Article About Need to Support Female Millennials

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August 2021 - EIN Presswire

Focused on Helping Young Women Become Successful Entrepreneurs, Millennial Queenmaker Announces President - Megan Moen

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July 2021 - Forbes Councils

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January 2021 - EIN Presswire

Burns Funding Announces Partnership with Companies Focused on Helping Veterans Transition to Entrepreneurship

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August 2020 - The National Business Post

Close to Home

July 2020 - The Observer & EIN Presswire

The Observer: “Peter J. Burns III: The Blueprint of an Entrepreneur” (July 21)EIN Press Wire: “Burns Funding Announces Unique Partnership with Vietnam Manufacturers to Deliver PPE to the United States“ (July 20) — **The Observer:** “Peter J. Burns III: The Blueprint of an Entrepreneur” (July 21)
**EIN Press Wire:** “Burns Funding Announces Unique Partnership with Vietnam Manufacturers to Deliver PPE to the United States“ (July 20)

April 2020:

EIN Press Wire: “Cost Segregation Emerges as a Strategy for Property Owners to Lessen Tax Liability, and Enhance Cash Flow” (Apr 21)EIN Press Wire: “Burns Funding Creates a Platform for Millenials to Start Their Own Business and Rise from the Ashes … — **EIN Press Wire:** “Cost Segregation Emerges as a Strategy for Property Owners to Lessen Tax Liability, and Enhance Cash Flow” (Apr 21)
**EIN Press Wire:** “Burns Funding Creates a Platform for Millenials to Start Their Own Business and Rise from the Ashes of COVID019 Crisis” (Apr 10)
**EIN Press Wire:** “Burns Funding Makes Strategic Investment in LA Based Agora Temple, Plans Expansion Through Rest of State” (Apr 9)
**MENAFN:** “Burns Funding Makes Donation in LA - Based Agora Temple, Plans Expansion Through Rest of State” (Apr 9)

February 2020:

The Observer: “Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Creates the Perfect Solution for an Aging Population” (Feb 29) — **The Observer:** “Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Creates the Perfect Solution for an Aging Population” (Feb 29)

January 2020:

EIN Press Wire: “Native Hawaiian Organization Retains the Leading law firm in Opioid Litigation to Secure Restitution” (Jan 22) — **EIN Press Wire:** “Native Hawaiian Organization Retains the Leading law firm in Opioid Litigation to Secure Restitution” (Jan 22)

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EIN Press Wire: “Leading Law Firm in Opioid Litigation Enlists Burns Marketing for Business Development“ (Jan 7)

December 2019 press:

EIN News Desk: “Burns Funding Offers Innovative 60-Day Credit Building Service, Unlocking Capital for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners“ (Dec. 2019)

EIN News Desk: “Burns Funding Acquires the Exclusive Rights to Market and Sell Nearly 150 medspa810 Franchises in California“ (Dec. 2019)

EIN News Desk: “Peter J.Burns III is Singled Out as Entrepreneurship Expert on National Radio“ (Dec. 2019)

Burns Funding blog: “Exploring the Difference Between a Serial Entrepreneur and Serial Start-up Entrepreneur“ (Dec. 2019)

October 2019

Startup Nation: “Serial Entrepreneur Presents Alternative Methods for Raising Startup Capital through Burns Funding” (Oct. 2019)Value Walk: “Company helps investors leverage underutilized accounting tool to raise additional capital for investment“ (… — **Startup Nation:** “Serial Entrepreneur Presents Alternative Methods for Raising Startup Capital through Burns Funding” (Oct. 2019)
**Value Walk:** “Company helps investors leverage underutilized accounting tool to raise additional capital for investment“ (Oct. 2019)
**Value Walk:** “Women Entrepreneurs Experience Success by Being Creative when Faced with Obstacles: Study“ (Oct. 2019)
**Sweet Startups:** “Burns Funding- a Leading Aggregator of Non-traditional Tools for Securing Growth Capital“ (Oct. 2019)

September 2019

EIN PressWire: “Burn$ Funding introduced Another Product – Blanket Loans – to Help Entrepreneurs“ (Sept. 2019)Real Estate Agent Magazine: “Phoenix is Becoming the Epicenter of the Group Home Movement“ (Sept. 2019)CPP Luxury: “Serial Entrepreneur Tap… — **EIN PressWire:** “Burn$ Funding introduced Another Product – Blanket Loans – to Help Entrepreneurs“ (Sept. 2019)
**Real Estate Agent Magazine:** “Phoenix is Becoming the Epicenter of the Group Home Movement“ (Sept. 2019)
**CPP Luxury:** “Serial Entrepreneur Taps into Growing Trend in Eldercare by Launching Luxury Group Homes“ (Sept. 2019)
**TECH STARTUPS:** “Burns Funding is Becoming the Leading Aggregator of Non-Traditional Tolls for Securing Growth Capital“ (Aug. 2019)
**EIN PressWire:** “‘DocVestors’ Are the Key Ingredient in Venture’s Rapid Expansion into Group Home Space“ (Aug. 2019)

August 2019

EIN PressWire: “Burn$ Funding Introduces New Division to Help Entrepreneurs Raise Capital by Applying an Underutilized Tax Law“ (Aug. 2019)

Peter J. Burns III Linkedin (blog): “My Very First “Unicorn-in-the Making!““ (Aug. 2019)

KevinMD: “Haven’t thought about investing in group homes? You should.“ (Aug. 2019)

July 2019

EIN NewsDesk: “After Four Decades, Peter J. Burns III Hits His Stride as a Highly Successful Serial Entrepreneur” (2019)EIN Presswire: “Serial Startup Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Reshapes Credit Repair Industry by Expanding the Capacity of Bridg… — **EIN NewsDesk**: “After Four Decades, Peter J. Burns III Hits His Stride as a Highly Successful Serial Entrepreneur” (2019)
**EIN Presswire**: “Serial Startup Entrepreneur Peter J. Burns III Reshapes Credit Repair Industry by Expanding the Capacity of Bridge Loans“ (2019)
**Entrepreneurship Central**: “Raising Millions in Donations the Peter Burns Way: An Introduction to Cost Segregation for Charitable Fundraising” (2019)
**Best World Travel Services**: “HI-TEK Inc. Launches Groundbreaking Vietnam Travel Service Ecosystem, Offering Discounted Tourist Visas, Flights, Hotels, and More“ (2018)

Serial Start-up Entrepreneur Finds Niche in the Credit Repair Industry

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Peter J. Burns III thinks of new business ideas like other people think about their next meal. The ideas are that frequent. The challenge for Burns has always been sifting through the many ideas and building out the good ones. There are only so many hours in the day, even for Burns, who rarely sleeps. Burns, who by his own count has started, run, sold and/or expanded between 100-150 individual businesses in dozens of fields, believes he recently found a good one by connecting the dots in a very fragmented industry. The company, Burns Funding, is near and dear to Burns’ heart. “As any serial entrepreneur will tell you, not every business is a home run,” said Burns. “Some fail through no fault of the entrepreneur, leaving the small business owners in debt, and their credit score plummeting.

“The same is true of regular people, who suffer a run of bad luck, or perhaps were overly optimistic about their financial future. Again, I’ve been there.” What Burns has done is as follows: Let’s say John Doe has $50,000 in high interest credit card debt and credit score around 600. Doe is struggling to make ends meet because of the monthly payments. Doe goes to a credit repair service and asks for their help. Some credit repair services will clean up some of the incorrect reporting and resolve other issues. Others will do that, and they have an individual at their disposal, who is willing to loan money to the applicant, a bridge loan, so he can pay down debt. This would reduce Doe’s all-important Credit Utilization Ratio (CUR), which is a key measuring stick for a credit score, down to 45 percent. This will provide a sufficient bump in the credit score for Doe to obtain low interest debt and pay off the credit card debt, thus reducing the monthly payment associated with credit card interest.

Where Burns has come in is by connecting with multiple financial institutions that are willing to make a bridge loan at a lower interest rate than the individuals. In addition, he has hammered out an agreement with the institutions, where they will go far below the 45 percent CUR to 30 percent or lower. This means Doe is able to pay off more of the high-interest debt, further increasing his credit score and qualifying him for a greater amount of low-interest money. Thus, Doe ends up paying less each month in interest.

Why hasn’t anyone else in the industry done this?

“The main reason is the industry is highly fragmented,” said Darrell Hornbacher, President of Midas-Financial, which is the largest credit repair company in Arizona and has 35,000 credit score restorations to its credit. “This industry has been growing so fast that we all have our hands full servicing new customers. No one is incentivized to move up or down the food chain and create a dynamic marketplace. What Peter Burns is doing, in many ways, is the missing link, creating winners out of everyone in the process. Peter certainly wins, the financial institutions win, and we win. Most importantly, the customer wins because they are paying substantially less in interest each month.”

Burns, for his part, does not fancy himself as a White Knight. Rather he is a capitalist, whose experience as a serial entrepreneur has helped him spot opportunities. “Since founding my first company as a teenager, I have found that my expertise lies primarily in the establishing and growing of niche market businesses in fragmented industries … of any kind,” said Burns. “Fortunately, I have a particularly good skill set of recognizing opportunities early on in the process and being able to fund almost any enterprise with creative financing techniques I’ve learned over my career. “This is the first company to offer a vertical integration approach of repairing credit and providing fresh new debt capital at rates and terms that benefit everyone involved,” he said.
Hornbacher is a believer.

“Peter has disrupted our industry in a matter of weeks, just as the companies that offered credit card stacking did several years ago,” he said. Burns is philosophical about his company’s ability to dominate market place. “Look, 100 companies like me could come into the space tomorrow and do the same thing,” he said. “But there’s enough capital floating around that each of those companies can be successful. There’s that much inefficiency in the marketplace.”

EIN Presswire: “Burns Funding Expands Debt Financing Options for Entrepreneur by Partnering with Aggregator of Shelf Corporations“ (2019) — **EIN Presswire**: “Burns Funding Expands Debt Financing Options for Entrepreneur by Partnering with Aggregator of Shelf Corporations“ (2019)

2013:

PR Web: “Institute for Entrepreneurship Celebrates First College of Entrepreneurship at Grand Canyon University” (2007)Institute for Entrepreneurship LLC — **PR Web**: “Institute for Entrepreneurship Celebrates First College of Entrepreneurship at Grand Canyon University” (2007)
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Inter Press Service News: “Using Ethiopia’s Healthcare Gaps to Do Good and Make a Profit” (2014)Digital Journal: "Entrepreneur has Solution for Businesses Squeezed by Government” (2013)Phoenix Business Journal: “Grand Canyon University Creating Coll… — **Inter Press Service News**: “Using Ethiopia’s Healthcare Gaps to Do Good and Make a Profit” (2014)
**Digital Journal**: "Entrepreneur has Solution for Businesses Squeezed by Government” (2013)
**Phoenix Business Journal**: “Grand Canyon University Creating College for Entrepreneurs” (2006)

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Peter J. Burns, III Awards and Recognition articles

Arizona Chapter of the FBLA Names Peter J. Burns III as Its Businessman of the Year (6/19/2007)

Future Business Leaders honor Grand Canyon entrepreneurial guru (6/19/2007)

Higher education leaders shining light on Arizona (03/04/2007)

The faces of entrepreneurs: Young, old alike share spirit (02/25/2007)

Valley’s entrepreneurial scene can offer a bright future, with support (02/25/2007)

Video Coverage

Peter J. Burns III on Rockstar Radio (04/10/2010)

http://www.youtube.com/user/PeterJBurnsIII

IN THE NEWS

National and local news about the Institute of Entrepreneurship and the College of Entrepreneurship.

Venturecast - Peter Burns Interview

Peter Burns, the Founder of the Institute for Entrepreneurship, joins us today to share his story. Peter has launched numerous initiatives in Arizona having the first ever college-accredited program on entrepreneurship.
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New club to bring together like-minded entrepreneurs

Club Entrepreneur is bringing seasoned entrepreneurs and future startup business leaders together.
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The only 'pureblood' Bachelor of Science in entrepreneurial education

$4.5M in startup money for students with great ideas.
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Encouragement offered to launch own business

University launches $1M entrepreneur fund

The University Entrepreneurs Fund was conceived to assist student entrepreneurs in initially capitalizing the business projects they create.
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College of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the fastest-growing course of study on campuses nationwide, but never before have would-be moguls been able to get a degree in the field. Until now.
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E-Myth Founder Michael Gerber to Be Chairman

The College of Entrepreneurship will house several unique enterprises, including an Entrepreneur Factory, a Club Entrepreneur and an e-Lab.
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Both entrepreneurial, managerial styles bring success

You may be moving out of your entrepreneurial comfort zone into the professional management arena, said Peter Burns.
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The New Entrepreneur Factory

More students are taking business risks right out of college. Peter Burns is well aware of this trend and has gained public attention for his latest venture: a college devoted solely to the study of entrepreneurship.
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