Cream of the Crop: Entrepreneur magazine honors Missoula business. Michael Burks and Big Sky Specialized Carriers Inc.
| September 15, 2007 |  View for printing |
It's hard to believe that, just six months ago, Burks was working out of his basement.
His rise has been both literal and figurative; his new office-with-a-view is symbolic of a soaring business that recently won him a place on Entrepreneur magazine's Hot 500 list of the nation's fastest-growing small businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/Hot500/Details/317.html.
The business is Big Sky Specialized Carriers Inc., a freight logistics company that connects people who need things hauled to the truckers who can haul them. Burks launched the company in October 1999 with an initial investment of $50,000 in personal savings. He turned a profit - and in fact, made his first $1 million - by the end of the same year.
By 2002, he saw $4.2 million in sales. Last year, his company posted $14.8 million in sales.
By TYLER CHRISTENSEN of the Missoulian
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