Our Team
Donald F. Connelly
Founder of EES and the ERO
Don is a retired entrepreneur. He has over 60 years of industry experience as an independent insurance agency, real estate developer, real estate investor, property manager, and hobby farmer.
During his tenure at Western High School (Kokomo, Indiana), Don had the privilege or working with two Purdue University professors–Dr. William H. Hamilton and Dr. D. Howard Doster–coauthoring their first text titled, The Creative Young Entrepreneur. This course, the, Entrepreneurial Recipe Online, is the culmination of years of experience and built upon the feedback of students, teachers and professors.
Dr. Frederick “Fritz” Muehlhausen
Professor at Purdue University
Fritz as everyone calls him achieved his Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science at Colorado State University.
He then went on to get his PhD and become a professor at Purdue university. For nearly three decades he was part of the Building Construction Management Program of Purdue University’s School of Technology where he taught a variety of courses. During this time he also assisted in the writing of several books related to construction and financial literacy.
Dr. Howard Doster
Professor at Purdue University
Howard graduated with three degrees from Ohio State University in Agriculture Economic, and went on to teach at Purdue University for nearly 4 decades.
During his tenure he worked on dozens of projects, earned numerous research awards, and taught thousands of young farmers the tricks of the trade. He developed the Surprise Moment Management farming accounting system to help farmers make timely, effective farm management decisions.
Dr. William H. Hamilton
Professor at Purdue University
William was another member of the Entrepreneurial Recipe Online (ERO) writing team. He was a bit of a mystery man, so we’re still looking for a picture of him.
Special Thanks
Beth Smith (aka. Beth Muehlhausen)
Founder of Beth’s Bakery
Beth Smith and her entrepreneurial journey is the primary case study presented in the Entrepreneurial Recipe Online™. We want to thank Beth as she let us follow her through this journey from part-time bakery employee to successful owner of her own bakery.
Joshua Bustamante
Founder of Lafayette Local IT
Joshua is a young entrepreneur and the founder of Lafayette Local IT. His diligent work and creativity made this website and the revamp of the Entrepreneurial Recipe Online™ project possible.
The focus of Lafayette Local IT is delivering reliable cloud-based solutions to local small businesses – something the area is surely lacking. Check out LafayetteLocal.IT and see what he and his can do to bring your IT game to the next level.
Our History
At its inception Entrepreneurship Educational Services, Inc (EES) was founded to provide a high-quality entrepreneurial education resource, and was in response to a lack of quality content in the field. Our core demographic was initially the international market – that’s where we initially developed our Student textbooks, Student Workbooks, and Instructor’s Resource Manuals. As we continued to develop our goals shifted to target the US markets in secondary and adult education.
Shortly after the project began we received multiple consulting contracts with Purdue University and Ohio State University. The Purdue contract was funded by the Mellon Foundation and Land O’ Lakes, and funded the Polish training program. The Ohio State University contract was funded by the World Bank, and was a multiple year contract in the southern Kyrghyz Republic.
The projects were created with the assistance of Ohio State University in the Kyrghyz Republic. An adult text titled Small Business Planning and Management for the First-Time Entrepreneur: Student Workbook, and it’s counterpart the Instructor’s Resource Manual were created. These workbooks were Dr. Frederick Muehlhausen (Purdue University), Dr. Howard Doster (Purdue University), and Don Connelly – with Don supplementing much of the material with real world accounts and resources.
The material developed was field-tested and used teach the Small Business Finances (BUS 203) at Ivy Tech Community College. It was used at both the Lafayette and Kokomo locations, and even made its’ way to UAW/Chrysler NTC Satellite Center on behalf of Ivy Tech.
Our Future
Thank you for taking the time to review the Entrepreneurial Recipe Online™ project. With the proper funding we would like to bring the ERO curriculum into the modern era. We believe the materials and concepts presented fill a void present in the post-secondary entrepreneurial education landscape.
The redesigned course will have all the advantages of modern online coursework – while containing the over 100 years of collective experience brought to the table by Dr. Muehlhausen, Dr. Doster, Dr. Hamilton, and Mr. Connelly.
If given the opportunity to bring the Entrepreneurial Recipe Online™ to life we believe it can become an invaluable resource for our young entrepreneurs, and a material they’ll be able to reference for years to come. Our timeline for the project estimates that all work related to project should be completed within 3-6 months of funding.