Entrepreneur · CPA · Professor

Building businesses from the ground up in southern New Mexico.

I'm Preston Mitchell — entrepreneur, New Mexico licensed CPA, and professor at NMSU's College of Business. I run companies across agriculture, e-commerce, fitness and recovery, real estate, telecommunications, and healthcare marketing, all rooted in the community and landscape of southern New Mexico. From Hatch chile fields to cryotherapy chambers, every venture starts with the same question: what does this market actually need?

Preston Mitchell — Entrepreneur, CPA, and Professor based in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Current Ventures

Businesses and projects that span industries but share a common thread — solving real problems for real people.

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Hatch Chile Store

Agriculture · E-Commerce

Bringing authentic, farm-roasted Hatch green chile and red chile to customers nationwide. Connected to five generations of chile farming in Hatch, New Mexico.

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Bionic Barbell

Fitness · Recovery Technology

A gym and recovery center in Las Cruces combining serious training with cutting-edge recovery technology — cryotherapy, red light therapy, PEMF, and more.

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Popsie Fish Company

E-Commerce · Digital Marketing

An e-commerce seafood brand where I lead digital marketing and SEO strategy, driving growth and customer acquisition.

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Amigos Mexican Foods

Restaurant · Hatch Chile Store Family

A Mexican food restaurant in Deming, New Mexico, now part of the Hatch Chile Store family — bringing authentic New Mexico flavors to the table.

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Paradise Greens

Mobile Home Communities

A mobile home community owner and operator with parks in Plainview TX, New Deal TX, Roswell NM, and Ruidoso NM. Over 300 spaces under management with 65 more in development.

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Mesilla Wireless

Telecommunications · Internet Service

A small wireless internet service provider serving the Raasaf Hills community near Mesilla, New Mexico — bringing reliable connectivity to an underserved rural neighborhood.

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Sunspot Medical Group

Healthcare · Digital Marketing

Built the web presence for a local distributor of biologic wound care products — Kerecis fish skin grafts and SYLKE spider silk dressings — helping healthcare providers discover advanced wound healing solutions.

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CPA by training, entrepreneur by nature.

Triple degrees and a Master of Accountancy from NMSU. A couple years at KPMG. A CPA license. And then I chose entrepreneurship — because building businesses is what I was meant to do. Now I'm a professor of accounting at NMSU and run companies across five industries, bringing the rigor of a CPA to the creativity of a founder.

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Thoughts & Lessons

Notes on entrepreneurship, agriculture, fitness, and building things in the desert Southwest.

Entrepreneurship

What Running Businesses Across Completely Different Industries Has Taught Me

The lessons that transfer from chile farming to gym management to e-commerce — and the ones that absolutely don't.

Agriculture · E-Commerce

Where Agriculture Meets E-Commerce

How a 5th-generation chile farming operation found its way onto Shopify — and what the transition looked like from the inside.

Fitness · Recovery

Why Recovery Technology Is the Future of Fitness

Most gyms compete on equipment and price. Here's why the real opportunity is in what happens after the workout.