Steve’s Bio

THE SHORT STORY: Steve Sue is the product of an oddly-matched education in art and law. Through a career that careened across entertainment, hospitality, retail and technology, he became known as a “story consultant” (see StoryManager works archive). Which lead to his Big Idea to create a software application that leverages scriptwriting techniques to help budding entrepreneurs perfect their Mission Statement, Elevator Pitch and Business Plan. Steve’s application has now been introduced as a free entrepreneur’s startup system at bizgym.com.

THE LONG VERSION: Steve was born and raised in Oakland, CA but left the hood at an early age to attend design school at UCLA. He later returned to the Bay Area to study law at UC Berkeley but neither field was for him. So he stayed in the Bay Area to stake an early entrepreneurial career in home building. Eventually, his “chop-suey” education pulled him into a “story consulting” career that spanned entertainment, hospitality, retail, technology and even non-profit industries see (see StoryManager works archive).

Steve recalls, “I was known as a guy who both ‘got’ business and could draw pictures. So I’d get hired to work brainstorming sessions. My job was to doodle everyone’s ideas into pictures. When I succeeded, I was a rock star.” When the ’90s recession hit, fewer people got invited to sessions so he got to come up with big ideas on his own. In turn, as an idea guy, he started getting gigs to facilitate mission development and business positioning. Along the way, Steve did some writing and got the idea to use scriptwriting techniques to help entrepreneurs do in words what he did in pictures, so he wrote a software application which eventually became BizGym.com, the free entrepreneur’s success system.

In 2008, Steve went “pencils down” on consulting in favor of dedicating his time toward helping a new generation of entrepreneurs turn their dreams into reality. BizGym.com Beta Version went live in January of 2011.

Steve and wife Karen married in 2009 and reside in Honolulu, Hawaii with their dog Mia. Steve and Karen love running, swimming, gardening and as they say in the islands, “talking story” with friends and family. Mia loves snackies, running and sleeping in the middle.