Wei Yang accepted to make an interview about EasyAutoSales, Georgia’s fastest growing web 2.0 automotive startup that he thinks it will change the way cars are offered on the web. He Co-founded EasyAutoSales.com, together with some local entrepreneurs and started with no outside investments. The site launched its beta in March and garnered a million cars within just one month.

Cristian: Hi Wei and welcome to Entrepreneur interviews. I will start by asking what are the differences between the regular classifieds sites and EasyAutoSales?

Wei: The major used car classifieds today charge for distribution, which is what newspaper classifieds have done for years and years. Outside of distribution, they don’t provide sellers much else to find or identify potential buyers. Existing used car classifieds also pass very little data back to the car dealers except for filled out forms. In the web 2.0 world, a lot of this usage information is shared to help sellers know what potential buyers want and to let buyers know who the best sellers are and what the best products out there are.

EasyAutoSales is different in that we allow sellers to market their new or used cars on the web for free and we help them find potential leads. In addition to free vehicle listings, we are opening up the used cars marketplace to create an interactive environment where car buyers can help each other search used cars and find the best vehicle for them.

Unlike traditional used cars classifieds, we also integrate our services with web 2.0 services and follow the users where they are the most active. Buying a car online shouldn’t be a chore; it should be an integrated experience just like doing anything else on the web.

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I have to admit I’ve been a little lazy about making new interviews on www.entrepreneur-interviews.com - I’ve been busy with my other blog Small Business Entrepreneur blog and also with … running my own small business.

I do however get sometimes feedback that the Entrepreneur interviews can be a nice resource for entrepreneur wanna-be and also a good promotion tool for small business owners. So if you are looking to give an interview about your entrepreneurship experience and promote your small business, send me an email: here’s the contact page. In the meanwhile, I will have a look and find my older interviews waiting to be published.

• Interview with Simon Carter from DataMystic
• Interview with entrepreneur Jared Reitzin from mobileStorm, a Web-based marketing company
• Interview with UK entrepreneur Darren Nicholls

I’ve met Ellen Craw at the SIC 2007 conference in Denver. She’s General Manager at Ilium Software. Ilium makes award winning programs for Windows Mobile and Palm handhelds and smartphones, and Windows desktop PCs. I didn’t get the chance to interview her at the conference, so I’m doing it now.

Cristian: Hi Ellen, I’m glad that we can finally make the interview! I have several questions about yourself, Ilium Software and your entrepreneurship experience. Let’s start with a few words on Ilium Software – what does it do?

Ellen: Hi Cristian, and happy new year! Ilium Software makes and sells programs – primarily information managers – for Windows Mobile and Palm smartphones and PDAs, as well as for Windows desktops.
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• Interview with Simon Carter from DataMystic
• Interview with Wei Yang from EasyAutoSales
• Interview with Small Business Entrepreneur Becky McCray

Interviewing entrepreneurs kind of gets me in contact with interesting people around the World. That’s how I’ve got in contact with Patric

Douglas, a CEO that turned his hobby into a successful business and that is Shark Diving. I’m copy pasting his description from the www.sharkdiver.com because it’s self explanatory for understanding his profile: “Cleaning up after his third hurricane in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Shark Divers Patric Douglas decided that there had to be a

safer way to make a living. He moved back to the west coast where he was quickly offered a job working for a medical travel

company escorting American doctors all over the globe. He spent the next two years as one of the first American tour guides back into Vietnam setting up a safe, unique travel route throughout this remarkable historically rich country. While escorting 21-day tours through China, Bali, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America, his easygoing leadership and good humor made for some exciting moments on the road that would not have happened without him.”

Cristian: Hi Patric and Welcome on board! You’re running a business in which you offer shark diving experiences to your customers. From your profile, shark diving seems just like the thing you would like to do before breakfast! How did you end up doing it for a living?

Patric: That’s an interesting story. Obviously shark diving is not something your average kid wakes up one morning and says “I want to be a shark diver”. For me the movie JAWS played a huge unconscious role in what I am doing now. At the age of 7 I saw that movie and spent that entire summer with all the other kids I knew staring at the swimming pool in 110 degree summer heat. NO ONE was going into the water that summer.

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Not sure if you know, but behind www.entrepreneur-interviews.com there is a company Energybyte and a spin off called inprogress. I’ve started Energybyte back in 2005, with 2 great partners: Simona and Tina – they are sisters. Starting a company “in the familly” brings it’s own set of challenges in respect of sharing tasks, authority and decisions.

So when I spoke to Adam Toren about him and his brother Matthew and their entrepreneurship story I couldn’t wait to have their interview and success story on board! Adam and Matthew are real serial entrepreneurs, having started and sold a number of businesses, since their teen years. They started by buying a struggling billiard hall, overhauling it’s business model and selling it later as a profitable business. Next was a printing company – same story – they build the business up and sell later. They are now in the publishing industry – another successful story.
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• Interview with Wei Yang from EasyAutoSales