John Richards is the CEO and Founder of Startup Ignition, an entrepreneur bootcamp that prepares entrepreneurs, founders, and teams to properly launch a company and take the right steps towards mitigating risk and increasing success. Prior to founding Startup Ignition, John founded and successfully exited multiple ventures and was an award-winning and highly-rated entrepreneurship professor at Brigham Young University. In addition to Startup Ignition, John is a managing partner at Startup Ignition Ventures, a pre-seed fund focused on early-stage ventures.