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Podcast: Franchise Today
Episode: ENCORE: Nick Lopez, From College Painter to Franchise Innovator
Description: Nick Lopez left Colorado as a wide-eyed first-generation college student, to work on a BS in Business Marketing at Michigan State. His plan was to "walk on" to the wrestling team, which would ultimately pay for the cost of tuition and living.The reality was that a scholarship was a couple of years away, so Nick made the tough decision to hang up his wrestling boots for an entrepreneurial endeavor, in order to support the cost of his education.At the age of 19, Nick founded his painting company and every summer thereafter, he painted homes t...