There’s a new dragon in the den — and it’s Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Scudamore will be an investor in the upcoming season of Dragons’ Den, the Canadian version of what ...
This is a guest post from Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, You Move Me, and Wow 1 Day Painting. Over the past 18 years, I’ve built my Vancouver-based junk removal firm, ...
In 1989, Scudamore was a high school dropout who'd convinced a local university to enroll him, but had no way to fund his education. He then got the idea to go into junk removal and within two weeks ...
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Brian Scudamore wrote the book on learning from failures in business—literally, as the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK and the author of "WTF! Willing to Fail" explained in a recent interview full of ...
In 1994, Brian Scudamore fired his entire 11-person company. "I realized that I didn't have the right people," the CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK tells CNBC. "I had to clean house and start again." Since, his ...
Back in 1989, Brian Scudamore was just out of high school when he started a company to remove all sorts of trash that the garbage collector wouldn’t take. Since then, he’s developed a network of ...
This is my main man Tom,” says a smiling Brian Scudamore, gesturing behind him to one of his junk removal guys. “And my other main man.Tom,” he says, pointing to a second. Scudamore is a guy who likes ...
Franchising often gets a bad rap among entrepreneurs. Many assume it’s a top-down, cookie-cutter business model that restricts creativity and freedom. To many, entrepreneurship is about going your own ...
Brian Scudamore didn't dream of a life hauling away other people's trash. But when he needed to pay for college, he bought a $700 pickup truck, painted his phone number on the side, and started ...