In July 2011 a business advisory firm named Entrethought, an educational outreach of EB3 Consulting, Inc., was formed to identify, assess, interview, research and support a generally unheralded but heroic group of American small business entrepreneurs in the Southeastern United States. The common thread was to identify behavioral patterns among those who have labored, with or without success, to build their own piece of the American dream. Entrethought editors waded through lists of entrepreneurial businesses with no less than 5 years of continuous experience in the fields of manufacturing, transportation, construction, wholesale distribution and business services, while excluding restaurants, hospitality and retail sales. The editorial team offered those responding to editors’ entrepreneurial screening questions an opportunity to be interviewed for the purpose of assessing behavioral characteristics of owners and key senior managers, and to assess their entrepreneurial story.The result is “An Entrepreneurs Guide: Earning America’s GDP, and Paying it Forward, One Small Business at a Time”.