Barefoot Wines | The Barefoot Spirit

8 Lessons For Budding Entrepreneurs

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Interview

by Steve Olenski, Contributor, Forbes Last December, my fellow FORBES contributor Robert Reiss, wrote a great piece entitled “The Incredible Story Of Starting The World’s Largest Wine Brand, Barefoot Wines.” The article was essentially a get-to-know two amazing...

Forbes Magazine Article

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Article, Business Blog, Interview

The Incredible Story Of Starting The World’s Largest Wine Brand, Barefoot Wines I was recently speaking with Michael Houlihan, co-founder of Barefoot Wines. This is the story of how two people overcame remarkable odds and built a beloved brand that transformed...

ICSB Guest Blog Post

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

We are not professors of entrepreneurship, but we are real-life successful entrepreneurs. Rather than retiring with our proceeds from the sale Barefoot Wines, we are devoting our lives to sharing what we have learned, often times the hard way, from our...

Irish Independent

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Article, Business Blog, Interview

IF MICHAEL Houlihan had followed the advice of his Irish-born grandparents he would have settled for a secure, pensionable job and a fairly comfortable lifestyle – and there’s a chance we would not be sipping the near nine million cases of wine sold in Ireland...

How the Irish Got Barefoot

CORK, WINE, AND CONTAINER

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Over one hundred years ago Michael’s grandfather, John Francis Houlihan, left his hometown of Limerick, Ireland, heading for the port city of Cork where he boarded a cattle steamer bound for America. The only passage he could afford was above deck, so in order to...