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By Richard Gearhart
Founding Partner

Michael Shapiro is a hyperlocal media expert, news entrepreneur and attorney. He owns and operates TAPinto.net, a network of more than 75 all-online hyperlocal news franchises in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Florida, with more than 8,000,000 readers during the past year. Each site is franchised to a local owner/publisher and provides original objective daily local news reporting. Current franchisees include business executives, public relations professionals, journalists, hardcopy newspapers, nonprofits and universities. TAPinto.net was founded in October, 2008 by Michael and Lauryn Shapiro, who sought to provide their town’s residents with an all-online, objective, independent, daily local newspaper. 
You can visit his website at www.TapInto.net 

Visit the pitch presenters for April 21st at their websites:

 
Susannah Bailin with Advice Coach, an App for patients to help them remember what matters: how to recover at home using prescribed exercises and when to go back to see the doctor, at https://advicecoach.com/


Reed Benet with HeroHomes, a company dedicated to helping VAs build financial security by using their VA mortgage benefit to purchase multi-family properties they can provide for their own families and to help others as well at http://www.herohomes.com

Omid Esmaili with College Foundry, offering classes, speaking events, and one-on-one consulting for students to understand how to get the most use out of their college years, to maximize opportunities and to make the most of their investment, at https://collegefoundry.com/.

About the Author
Richard Gearhart, Esq. is the founder of Gearhart Law and the host of a weekly radio show for entrepreneurs called “Passage to Profit”. He has built a firm with an international presence that helps entrepreneurs from around the world with their patent, trademark and copyright needs. Richard commands a breadth of experience that comes from nearly 30 years of practice in the writing and prosecution of hundreds of patents, and in all aspects of Intellectual Property law. In 2022, Richard was recognized by ROI New Jersey as a 2022 ROI Influencer in the Law List category for being one of the best of the best in New Jersey for intellectual property law. Gearhart Law emerged from Richard’s passion for entrepreneurship and startups and his belief that entrepreneurship grows the economy and creates jobs. When we started Gearhart Law, our goal was to help and support the new business ventures of 500 entrepreneurs and inventors. After 12 years, the firm has far surpassed this goal; today, we look forward to helping even more inventors and entrepreneurs get off to a great start and reach their own goals.