Like most successful business entrepreneurs, Mike Brewer sort of made it up as he went along, sometimes quoting Aristotle of all people: “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”Brewer knew he wanted to work outside of an office — unlike his father in technology marketing, for instance. So, after taking a week off following high school graduation, Brewer went to work full time at Canyon State Plumbing, a company owned by a neighbor. “My father spent all day, every day in the office. He liked the office,” Brewer says. “I
