The Art of Running A Small Business: Big Island Eco-Tours

This work marks the beginning of a periodic series this site will publish on interesting small business owners. Small business, as many know, are the engines behind real job growth. Put simply, we need more people to get creative, chase their dreams and start a business (triple this need in the rust belt where traditional manufacturing jobs are going away).
Today’s 3 degree (did it get that warm?) Madison weather means it’s time to visit Kona, Hawaii and take a look at Dan McSweeney’s: Captain Dan’s Eco-Tours. Or, perhaps more appropriately, the art and study of whale watching. Dan has taken his passion – marine biology – and made a life’s work out of it along with a real business. He also brings a certain art, or style to the whale watch process.
Read on…..