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What does entrepreneurship have to do with the Church? In this episode, we're joined by President David Janzen of Tabor College to talk about the unique intersection of business, creativity, and calling.President Janzen shares why Christian entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to shape culture, solve real-world problems, and live out their faith in bold, innovative ways. We also explore the heart behind Tabor's new Business & Entrepreneurship Center, how it's training the next generation of faith-driven leaders, and why churches should care deeply about cultivating entrepreneurs.Whether you're a business leader, a pastor, or someone with a big idea on your heart, this episode offers fresh encouragement for thinking differently about vocation, risk, and Kingdom impact.

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Saturday, April 12, 2025. WV Secretary of State Kris Warner catches up with WV State President Ericke Cage on progress at the university…West Virginia Northern Community College opens its new Business and Entrepreneurship Center…and discover why spring is an ideal time to visit the WV State Wildlife Center…on today's daily304.   #1 – From WVSOS – On this episode of “Just Three Questions,” West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner chats with West Virginia State University President Ericke S. Cage about the Yellow Jacket pledge, agriculture, and partnerships.   “Just Three Questions!” is a weekly video series hosted by Secretary Warner to talk with community leaders about issues important to business development in West Virginia. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji81w943DTw   #2 – From WTOV9-TV – West Virginia Northern Community College has opened its new Business and Entrepreneurship Center. Located on the second floor of the B&O Building in Wheeling, students can now obtain an associate degree in applied science in just two years. Programs include business administration, small business management, accounting, and more in a new way. WVNCC Business Program Director Lyndsie Scott Guzek said it's putting the Ohio Valley on the map by giving students hands-on skills to become entrepreneurs or run small businesses or business administration. Read more: https://wtov9.com/news/local/wvncc-opens-new-business-center-offering-hands-on-entrepreneurship-training   #3 – From WVDNR – If you're looking for an affordable, easy-to-plan family trip that offers opportunities to have fun and learn something new, the West Virginia State Wildlife Center is the perfect destination.  Nestled in the scenic hills of Upshur County, the Wildlife Center provides an enriching and affordable outdoor experience where you can learn about native wildlife, explore nature's beauty and enjoy quality time with your loved ones in a peaceful natural setting. With spring hours and admission rates starting April 1, now is the perfect time to plan a family trip and create lasting memories.  Read more: https://wvdnr.gov/plan-the-perfect-family-trip-to-the-west-virginia-wildlife-center/   Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.  

In this episode of The Boardroom 180 Podcast, host Munir Haque delves into nonprofit governance with Bruce Anderson, an accomplished leader with extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, entrepreneurship, and board governance. Bruce shares insights from his decades of experience serving on over 21 nonprofit and professional boards, including Habitat for Humanity Saskatchewan and CAA Saskatchewan. He discusses how his diverse background in academia, consulting, and executive leadership informs his governance contributions. Bruce highlights the unique challenges of nonprofit governance, including balancing mission-driven goals with financial sustainability. He explains the diverse structures and financing of nonprofits, ranging from member dues and fundraising to revenue-generating enterprises. Bruce points out the need for boards to adapt their skill sets to address these complexities. He advocates for applying strategic thinking to nonprofit boards, emphasizing the importance of managing resources effectively and aligning marketing strategies. In talking about organizational models, Bruce explains Habitat for Humanity's evolution from the “classic” model, where Habitat itself manages the mortgage, to newer approaches involving partnerships with financial institutions. The discussion delves into broader governance themes, including diversity and effective leadership. Bruce advocates for meaningful diversity on boards to improve decision-making quality and better represent the communities they serve without tokenism. He stresses the balance between servant leadership and strategic guidance. Bruce points to the board chair's responsibility for encouraging inclusive discussions and challenging groupthink to ensure sound decision-making processes and unity. Munir and Bruce's conversation highlights the importance of patience, planning, and clear principles in navigating the complexities of organizational change, offering valuable lessons for others facing similar endeavours.About Bruce Anderson:Bruce Anderson joined the CAA Saskatchewan Board of Directors in October 2017 and serves on the Audit Committee, chairs the Human Resources Committee, and chaired the Investment and Acquisition Task Force. He is the managing partner and senior consultant with b-creative group and an instructor with the Hill / Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina, where he teaches business strategy, consulting, and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and graduate students. He has served on numerous boards of directors, including as Chair of the Regina and Saskatchewan Chambers of Commerce and as Chair of the Saskatchewan Science Centre. He currently is Chair of Habitat for Humanity Saskatchewan and a mentor to new entrepreneurs. Bruce co-wrote a business case on CAA Saskatchewan and the case is used by business schools across the world and also by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Bruce and his spouse Lucie have two adult children and three grandchildren. They enjoy taking long drives to explore Canada.--Contact Munir Haque | ActionEdge Executive Development: Website: AEEDNow.comLinkedin: Action Edge Executive Development Inc.Contact Bruce Anderson: Bruce Anderson on LinkedIn Podcast Production:Recording:  PushySix StudiosProduction Assistance: Astronomic Audio--Transcript Bruce Anderson: [00:00:01] Your starting point around metrics is absolutely essential. How do we know that we're going to yield some of this result? So if we get a certain number of things donated at the Habitat Restore, for example, which things are going to yield the best profits? Which things have the best margin? Which things have the quickest inventory turn? Because these are terms that people are going as a not for profit. What do you mean inventory turn? If it sits in our warehouse, it sits in the shop there for a period of time. It costs us money. It costs us floor space. It's an opportunity cost because we could put other things that are more profitable in there. So some of these metrics that you would naturally think about have to be used.Munir Haque: [00:00:40] Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of The Boardroom 180 Podcast. I'm your host, Munir Haque, an executive coach and senior board strategist. I have partnered with Action Edge Executive Development to lead their governance and political acumen division. In each episode, we meet with governance leaders and step into their boardrooms, where decisions shape the world around us. In this episode, we'll be talking nonprofit governance with Mr. Bruce Anderson. Bruce Anderson is a seasoned leader with 15 years in nonprofit leadership and over 25 years as an entrepreneur. He is a managing partner of Be Creative Group, a consultancy specializing in management and marketing, and teaches strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Regina, where he also leads the Graduate Advanced Training and Entrepreneurship Center, or GATE. Bruce has a BCom as well as an MBA, and is a Chartered Director with the Icd.d designation and a Certified Management Consultant. His achievements include being named as a National Fellow of the Certified Management Consultants, as well as receiving the International Academic Fellow Award for Certified Management Consultants. Bruce has served on over 21 nonprofit, professional and regulatory boards, chairing ten of them, including Habitat for Humanity Saskatchewan, which he guided through a merger. Currently, he is a director with CAA Saskatchewan, chairing their HR committee and serving on the audit committee. His past leadership includes chairing the Regina and Saskatchewan Chambers of Commerce and the Saskatchewan Science Center, serving on the Council for Entrepreneurial Growth and Economic Development. A mentor to entrepreneurs and passionate community leader, welcome to The Boardroom 180 Podcast, Mr. Anderson.Bruce Anderson: [00:02:21] Thanks, Munir.Munir Haque: [00:02:23] I always find that a good gauge of how active somebody is in the community is whether or not my kids know them. And for this I've got stories of two of my kids that have crossed paths with you. So my daughter, I think was about five years ago, during some of her onboarding at University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, that onboarding weekend, she went up, and I attended with her and we got to at least watch. I think it was a student entrepreneur competition. And at that competition you were up in Saskatoon and you were one of the judges. So that's one of my kids. And then needless to say, she's not in business anymore. She switched into one of the more social sciences and now is just starting her master's in public health.Bruce Anderson: [00:03:11] I remember those teams well, the kids were great.Munir Haque: [00:03:15] We were just in the audience, but I saw you from the back, and I think I came up to you afterwards. The other thing is, my son is currently finishing off his bachelors of administration at University of Regina. He's taken a handful of courses from you, and he has good things to say about you. So once again, it goes to show how much you do in the community, how well my kids know your name.Bruce Anderson: [00:03:36] Fair enough, yeah.Munir Haque: [00:03:39] 21 boards, that'...

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey.  She is the founding Director of the Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.  They assist in the development of minority entrepreneurship.   The Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) is a global model for higher education and industry collaborations to foster innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. Established in 2004 as a unit of Morehouse College, the Center has continually operated with an internal and external focus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship with people of color. Since its inception the Center has secured grants and contracts in excess of $50M and impacted over 2100 students.  Through the Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé Program we partnered with over 17 large mentoring corporations and assisted over 100 technology protégé growth companies nationwide. Our efforts of providing developmental assistance to these protege companies resulted in an increase in $20M in revenue and created over 150 new technology jobs. On Wednesday, December 11, 2024, MIEC will commemorate its 20th anniversary with the unveiling of the Building Black Business Report 2024 starting at 9 a.m. inside the Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center on the campus of Morehouse College. The report details an 18-month community engagement research initiative convening Atlanta-based Black business serving organizations. Immediately afterward, there will be a legacy impact luncheon to commemorate the significant impact MIEC has had on the transformation of Black entrepreneurship. The organization will also reveal its plans for a bold and influential future. Since 2004, MIEC has developed life-changing opportunities for more than 400 small businesses, resulting in more than $255 million in revenue growth and $35 million in capital access. #STRAW #BEST #SHMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey.  She is the founding Director of the Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.  They assist in the development of minority entrepreneurship.   The Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) is a global model for higher education and industry collaborations to foster innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. Established in 2004 as a unit of Morehouse College, the Center has continually operated with an internal and external focus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship with people of color. Since its inception the Center has secured grants and contracts in excess of $50M and impacted over 2100 students.  Through the Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé Program we partnered with over 17 large mentoring corporations and assisted over 100 technology protégé growth companies nationwide. Our efforts of providing developmental assistance to these protege companies resulted in an increase in $20M in revenue and created over 150 new technology jobs. ● MIEC will unveil the findings from the “Building Black Business Report 2024” at 9 a.m. atthe Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center at Morehouse College.● The Building Black Business Report 2024 summarizes an 18-month community researchinitiative involving Atlanta-based Black business-serving organizations.● MIEC is hosting a 20th Legacy Impact Luncheon Celebration, highlighting the significantimpact of transforming Black entrepreneurship and bold plans for the future.● Since 2004, MIEC has developed lifechanging opportunities for more than 400 smallbusinesses resulting in more than $255 million in revenue growth and $35 million incapital access. NEW INITIATIVES● Boost Your Business is an exclusive online event for alum network members .The members will learn about resources to supportrevenue growth for their small businesses, including:○ Structuring the Capabilities Statement○ Certification preparation and filing○ Social media account setup and optimization○ General account support○ Financial modeling and forecasting○ Proposal writing assistance○ E-commerce setup and support ● Construction Cohort is a six-month Small Business Executive Program initiative that provides strategies for Georgia-based Black-owned businesses with an annual revenue of $650,000 or more to successfully do business with prime contractors.  ○ Program Benefits■ Bi-weekly executive development sessions■ In-person and online meetings■ Individualized coaching■ Capital readiness■ Contract readiness● Retail Cohort: MIEC is recruiting 20 small businesses to focus on the retail industry,including consumer packaged goods, clothing, and merchandising #STRAW #BEST #SHMSSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey.  She is the founding Director of the Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.  They assist in the development of minority entrepreneurship.   The Morehouse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) is a global model for higher education and industry collaborations to foster innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. Established in 2004 as a unit of Morehouse College, the Center has continually operated with an internal and external focus to promote innovation and entrepreneurship with people of color. Since its inception the Center has secured grants and contracts in excess of $50M and impacted over 2100 students.  Through the Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé Program we partnered with over 17 large mentoring corporations and assisted over 100 technology protégé growth companies nationwide. Our efforts of providing developmental assistance to these protege companies resulted in an increase in $20M in revenue and created over 150 new technology jobs. ● MIEC will unveil the findings from the “Building Black Business Report 2024” at 9 a.m. atthe Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center at Morehouse College.● The Building Black Business Report 2024 summarizes an 18-month community researchinitiative involving Atlanta-based Black business-serving organizations.● MIEC is hosting a 20th Legacy Impact Luncheon Celebration, highlighting the significantimpact of transforming Black entrepreneurship and bold plans for the future.● Since 2004, MIEC has developed lifechanging opportunities for more than 400 smallbusinesses resulting in more than $255 million in revenue growth and $35 million incapital access. NEW INITIATIVES● Boost Your Business is an exclusive online event for alum network members .The members will learn about resources to supportrevenue growth for their small businesses, including:○ Structuring the Capabilities Statement○ Certification preparation and filing○ Social media account setup and optimization○ General account support○ Financial modeling and forecasting○ Proposal writing assistance○ E-commerce setup and support ● Construction Cohort is a six-month Small Business Executive Program initiative that provides strategies for Georgia-based Black-owned businesses with an annual revenue of $650,000 or more to successfully do business with prime contractors.  ○ Program Benefits■ Bi-weekly executive development sessions■ In-person and online meetings■ Individualized coaching■ Capital readiness■ Contract readiness● Retail Cohort: MIEC is recruiting 20 small businesses to focus on the retail industry,including consumer packaged goods, clothing, and merchandising #STRAW #BEST #SHMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Tiffany Bussey, founding director of the Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, a global model for assisting in the the development of minority entrepreneurship through scholarly research, training, and consulting services. The post Dr. Tiffany Bussey (Ep. 43, 2024) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey.   As the Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) Founding Director, Dr. Tiffany Bussey stands at the helm of profit-yielding partnerships bridging the gap between the supplier diversity initiatives at global brands and multi-million-dollar Black and brown businesses. An engaging dialogue with Dr. Bussey around the ways MIEC creates unique pathways to help minority businesses scale using what she calls the three Cs: Capital, Connections, and Contracts.  Here are some of the interview highlights: MIEC's engagement with 400 scalable, mid-size minority-owned businesses has been instrumental in creating 850 new Atlanta-based jobs, granting access to $34 million in new capital, and generating nearly $82 million in new revenue growth. MIEC's unique business education prepares minority business owners to obtain contracts with large firms seeking business-to-business partnerships with small to mid-size businesses. Atlanta is one of four national accelerator locations for The Clean Tech Infrastructure Academy at Goodwill, a new 4-week program designed to grow the electric vehicle workforce. At the academy, student workers are paid $15 an hour to learn how to install and maintain EV chargers, heat pumps, and solar panels. This training equips them for jobs in the growing electric vehicle industry, where maintenance techs can start earning $30 per hour.  About MIEC: ·  Since its inception, MIEC has garnered over $50 million in grants and contracts and positively impacted over 2,100 students. ·  MIEC incorporates a holistic approach to supporting the business leaders it serves, providing education, access to capital, procurement opportunities, mentorship, and student involvement. ·  125 minority-owned businesses participating in Ascend Atlanta have experienced an increase in revenue of $13.5 million and have gained access to $5.5 million in capital funding. #SHMS #STRAWSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey.   As the Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (MIEC) Founding Director, Dr. Tiffany Bussey stands at the helm of profit-yielding partnerships bridging the gap between the supplier diversity initiatives at global brands and multi-million-dollar Black and brown businesses. An engaging dialogue with Dr. Bussey around the ways MIEC creates unique pathways to help minority businesses scale using what she calls the three Cs: Capital, Connections, and Contracts.  Here are some of the interview highlights: MIEC's engagement with 400 scalable, mid-size minority-owned businesses has been instrumental in creating 850 new Atlanta-based jobs, granting access to $34 million in new capital, and generating nearly $82 million in new revenue growth. MIEC's unique business education prepares minority business owners to obtain contracts with large firms seeking business-to-business partnerships with small to mid-size businesses. Atlanta is one of four national accelerator locations for The Clean Tech Infrastructure Academy at Goodwill, a new 4-week program designed to grow the electric vehicle workforce. At the academy, student workers are paid $15 an hour to learn how to install and maintain EV chargers, heat pumps, and solar panels. This training equips them for jobs in the growing electric vehicle industry, where maintenance techs can start earning $30 per hour.  About MIEC: ·  Since its inception, MIEC has garnered over $50 million in grants and contracts and positively impacted over 2,100 students. ·  MIEC incorporates a holistic approach to supporting the business leaders it serves, providing education, access to capital, procurement opportunities, mentorship, and student involvement. ·  125 minority-owned businesses participating in Ascend Atlanta have experienced an increase in revenue of $13.5 million and have gained access to $5.5 million in capital funding. #SHMS #STRAWSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode of The Data Minute, Peter Walker (Head of Insights at Carta) sits down with Darren Cooke (Executive Director, Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center) for an enlightening discussion about some emerging trends with biotech companies: Namely, while pharma and biotech currently rank as the 5th most-funded type of pre-seed startups, they simultaneously enjoy favorable valuations to other SaaS-type businesses.This leads Peter and Darren into a conversation about biotech, the challenges and differences for biotech founders when raising seed capital, and of course, Darren's history and experience leading Berkeley's accelerator program, SkyDeck — one of the most celebrated accelerators in the startup world.Subscribe to Carta's weekly Data Minute newsletter:https://carta.com/subscribe/data-newsletter-sign-up/Explore interactive startup and VC data, with Carta's Data Desk:https://carta.com/data-desk/Chapters:00:00 Intro00:44 Darren Cooke, Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center02:05 Berkeley SkyDeck04:39 The pre-seed experience for biotech companies08:22 Regulation, reimbursement, and outside funding10:29 Round sizes in the biotech industry12:27 Investor interest in biotech16:42 The five stakeholders biotech companies need to know21:15 Pre-seed fundraising and priced rounds23:27 Demo day25:52 Words of adviceThis presentation contains general information only and eShares, Inc. dba Carta, Inc. (“Carta”) is not, by means of this publication, rendering accounting, business, financial, investment, legal, tax, or other professional advice or services, and is for informational purposes only.  This presentation is not a substitute for such professional advice or services nor should it be used as a basis for any decision or action that may affect your business or interests. © 2024 eShares, Inc., dba Carta, Inc. All rights reserved.

Leon Schneider promoviert am WIN-Lehrstuhl der RWTH Aachen, ist Start-up Coach am Entrepreneurship Center der RWTH Innovation und hat selbst ein Unternehmen gegründet. In dieser Folge teilt Leon seine persönliche Gründungsgeschichte und spricht offen über die Herausforderungen dabei, insbesondere im Bereich der mentalen Gesundheit. Außerdem erhalten wir Einblicke in die facettenreiche Start-up Szene in Aachen und die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten für angehende Gründer:innen. Das und vieles mehr erwartet euch in dieser Folge.

Mit elf Jahren schrieb Ye One Rhie einen Brief an die Aachener Bundestagsabgeordnete, heute ist sie ihre direkte Nachfolgerin. Die SPD-Politikerin ist gebürtige Aachenerin und teilt uns nicht nur ihre politischen Ansichten mit, sondern gibt uns auch spannende Einblicke in ihren persönlichen Weg in die Politik. Das und vieles mehr erwartet euch in dieser Folge.  

Have you had the chance to check out our Host's other podcast series? The Bonus Series is BACK every Sunday on That Entrepreneur Show. Each week, you will connect with one of the other entrepreneurs, mentors, or staff members in Host Vincent A. Lanci's Incubator Program. This week on A Mental Health Break, we release Episode 1 of the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center Bonus Series. For all video interviews, tap this link. Dr. Rebecca White is the founder of the Podagogy® Method and your personal guide on this journey. She's an internationally recognized and award-winning executive board member, entrepreneur, educator, business consultant, author, and podcaster with expertise in the design, management and leadership of innovation. She's the host of the En Factor® Podcast upon which this professional learning adventure is based.She is the Walter Chair of Entrepreneurship, professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Entrepreneurship Center at The University of Tampa. She received an MBA and a doctorate in strategic management from Virginia Tech University and a bachelor's degree from Concord University. Her primary research and teaching interests are in opportunity recognition and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.White was named the Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year 2010 in the Education Category, was a 2006 Athena® Award finalist, a 2005 recipient of the Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, and was named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Supporter of Entrepreneurship in 2003.Do you have a question for the host or guest? Want to become a show partner? Email Danica at PodcastsByLanci@gmail.com.Stay connected with us on social media! You can find us at @AMentalHealthBreak on all platforms. For more information about our show and our guests, visit www.vincentalanci.com. We look forward to engaging with you!Episode Music Credits: Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenHave a question for the host or guest? Looking to become a show partner? Email Danica at PodcastsByLanci@gmail.com.

Helmut Schönenberger hat vor über 20 Jahren UnternehmerTUM gegründet. Aus einem Uniprojekt baute er zusammen mit der BMW-Großaktionärin, Susanne Klatten, Europas größtes Entrepreneurship Center auf. Helmut ist tief verwurzelt in der Gründungsszene, er hat viele Start-ups scheitern gesehen aber auch einige, die den großen Durchbruch geschafft haben und mit ihren Ideen die Zukunft verbessern – wie zum Beispiel Celonis, Flix oder Isar Aerospace. Bis heute ist er im Geiste jung geblieben und ist wesentlich dafür verantwortlich, dass die TU München führend ist bei Gründungen. Wir sprechen aber auch darüber, was junge Leute mitbringen sollten und wie man ihnen besser helfen könnte.Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Annika Menzel ist Psychologin, Beraterin bei BCG und derzeit Head of Mobilization und Start-up Coach am Entrepreneurship Center der RWTH Aachen. Wir erhalten Einblicke in Annikas spannenden Werdegang und erfahren mehr über ihre Rolle in der Unterstützung aufstrebender Unternehmer und Unternehmerinnen. Außerdem sprechen Annika und Julius darüber, wie an der RWTH die Gründer und Gründerinnen von morgen mobilisiert werden und auch gezielt weibliche Gründerinnen ermutigt und gefördert werden können. Das und vieles mehr erwartet euch in dieser Folge.

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center Bonus Series! Each Sunday, you will connect with one of the entrepreneurs in Host Vincent A. Lanci's Incubator Program.Dr. Rebecca White is the founder of the Podagogy® Method and your personal guide on this journey. She's an internationally recognized and award-winning executive board member, entrepreneur, educator, business consultant, author, and podcaster with expertise in the design, management and leadership of innovation. She's the host of the En Factor® Podcast upon which this professional learning adventure is based.Rebecca J. White is the Walter Chair of Entrepreneurship, professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Entrepreneurship Center at The University of Tampa. She received an MBA and a doctorate in strategic management from Virginia Tech University and a bachelor's degree from Concord University. Her primary research and teaching interests are in opportunity recognition and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.White was named the Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year 2010 in the Education Category, was a 2006 Athena® Award finalist, a 2005 recipient of the Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, and was named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Supporter of Entrepreneurship in 2003.Prior to her work at The University of Tampa, she built a top 25 nationally ranked entrepreneurship program at Northern Kentucky University. She was also the founder and director of the Women's Entrepreneurship Institute, an educational program for female entrepreneurs offered jointly with the New York Times. Music Credits:Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenHappy | https://soundcloud.com/morning-kuliSupport the showIf you enjoyed this week's show, click the subscribe button to stay current.Listen to A Mental Health Break Episodes hereTune into Writing with Authors here

In this episode we are talking with Brice Smith! We have a great conversation about being vulnerable online, putting yourself out there, and ultimately having an amazing relationship with music and your instrument. Follow them on IG! @celestialfluteDr. Brice Smith has a deep passion for teaching and engaging communities through classical music. Smith held the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra's principal flutist position and is a substitute for the Seattle, Milwaukee, Dallas, and Colorado symphonies. Additionally, Smith has performed with the New World Symphony Orchestra, 21st Century Consort, ÆPEX Contemporary Ensemble, and National Repertory Orchestra. Smith served as an Adjunct Professor of Flute at Adams State University and Assistant Artistic Director for Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Flute Academy. As a soloist, he has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Longmont Symphony, Arkansas Philharmonic, University of Michigan Camerata Symphony Orchestra, 21st Century Consort, as well as other orchestras and bands. Additionally, Smith was a guest soloist for the National Flute Association's 50th Anniversary Convention Celebration, premiered solo flute works for the NFA Summer Series and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music's "Gig Thru COVID."Additionally, Smith was a guest Gala performer for the 51st and 52nd NFA Convention. He is a founding member of the Boulder Altitude Directive (BAD Ensemble), a new music ensemble conducted by composer Dr. Carter Pann. Smith is a Trevor James Alto & Bass Flute Artist and Recording Artist for Alry Publications LLC. and the American Composers Alliance Inc.Smith has a rich and wide-ranging set of experiences in teaching, recruitment, scholarly research, and publication. He has given presentations and taught masterclasses and lessons for several institutions and universities, including his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. During his D.M.A., Smith served as Artistic and Development Assistant for the Crested Butte Music Festival and Graduate Assistant and Student Engagement Specialist for the Entrepreneurship Center for Music director at the University of Colorado Boulder. Administratively, he has served as an executive board member for the Texas Flute Society, multiple NFA committees, Repertoire Specialist for Rachel Barton Pine's "Music By Black Composers" Organization,  Artistic Representative for Rollopollolo Press, and Assistant Artistic Administrative Director for CBMF, and Music Librarian for the Napa Valley Music Festival. As a competition adjudicator, he has served multiple panels, including the 2022 TFS Myrna W. Brown competition, NFA Alto Flute Artist Finalist Competition, 2021 NFA Junior Soloist competition, University of Iowa School of Music, and San Francisco Flute Society competitions.Smith completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Colorado Boulder with Christina Jennings, Masters of Music in Flute Performance and Chamber Music at the University of Michigan with Amy Porter, as well as a Performer Diploma at Indiana University under the direction of Thomas Robertello. Smith studied with Ronda Mains at the University of Arkansas, where he completed a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance, Violin Performance and German language. Dr. Brice Smith is published in the July 2020 issue of the Flute View magazine for his article "Beauty With Intention: Expanding the Wealth of Flute Repertoire."If you enjoyed this episode, or you have been enjoying this podcast, tell a friend about it! I'd love to spread the word! Book a Preliminary Coaching Call! CLICK HERE Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts!

Dive into the world of renewable energy with Michael Barnard as he chats with Trish Cozart, the driving force behind the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2). Discover NREL's groundbreaking initiatives like Integrated Energy Systems and their journey to electrify everything while solving grid challenges.Cozart delves deep into the world of clean tech, from the intricacies of Technology Readiness Levels to the pivotal role of NREL's incubation programs in transforming ideas into market-ready products. Learn about the unique collaboration between NREL and external organizations, including a spotlight on BlocPower's innovative approach to bringing energy-efficient solutions to underserved communities.For those keen on the building sector, Trish emphasizes its significance as a major carbon emitter and the urgency to decarbonize it. She also shares personal anecdotes on sustainability challenges faced in commercial buildings and the solutions that are making a difference.Key Takeaways:NREL's mission and its unique position in the renewable energy landscape.The role of Technology Readiness Levels in the journey from concept to commercialization.The importance of building networks within the clean tech industry and the role of incubation programs.Insights into collaborations like Block Power that prioritize community needs in their financing models.The pressing need to address carbon emissions from the building sector and the solutions in play.Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation that promises to be a treasure trove for energy professionals!Remember to like, subscribe, and stay updated with "Redefining Energy - Tech."

Jeffrey Nytch joins conductor Devin Patrick Hughes on One Symphony. Jeffrey has built a diverse career as a composer, educator, performer, and thought leader in arts entrepreneurship. His music has been performed at major venues throughout the U.S. and Europe, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, MoMA, and many others. His international reputation as an arts entrepreneurship educator includes numerous awards, including the Excellence in Specialty Entrepreneurship Award from the U.S. Assn. of Small Business & Entrepreneurship and the Sharon Alpi Award for Innovative Pedagogy from the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education. His groundbreaking book, The Entrepreneurial Muse applies traditional entrepreneurial theory to the performing arts. Since 2009, he has served on the faculty of The University of Colorado-Boulder, where he is an Associate Professor of Composition and serves as Director of The Entrepreneurship Center for Music, one of the leading programs of its kind.   Thank you for joining us for on One Symphony. Thanks to Jeffrey Nytch for sharing his music and insights, you can get more info at https://www.jeffreynytch.com. Works on the show today included Jeffrey's For the Trees played by the Ivalas Quartet and Seize the Sun performed by Carpe Diem String Quartet. Thank you to Kim at Johnson&Stories for editorial contributions! You can always find more info at OneSymphony.org including a virtual tip jar if you'd like to support the show. Please feel free to rate, review, or share the show! Until next time, thank you for being part of the music! https://www.jeffreynytch.com https://devinpatrickhughes.com/ https://onesymphony.org/ https://www.johnsonandstories.com/    

Perhaps you've heard of the Valley of Death? It's the phase of development that often kills off startups before they can reach scale. One key challenge is needing to test and refine their technology and gain true validation. For a few lucky startups, this is where the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator comes in to help them develop pilots that provide the insights and credible third-party endorsement needed to grow their technology. The incubator is part of the Department of Energy-backed National Renewable Energy Lab, an institution that's central to the United State's investment in renewable energy. Today, we're joined by Trish Cozart, the Director of NREL's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, who oversees the Incubator. And, we're also joined by the founders of two startups that recently participated in the lab: Adam Cohen from NineDot Energy and Tanya Barham from Community Energy Labs. We talk about what makes the incubator unique, how it's helped these two companies, what they're aiming to achieve and much more. Enjoy! In today's episode, we cover:[3:15] National Renewable Energy Laboratory & the role it plays[5:01] Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator & the types of companies it supports[7:07] Tracking growth after participation in the Incubator[7:29] Advice for companies that need to get through the Valley of Death[9:01] Community Energy Labs, the problem it's aiming to solve & what led Tanya to start the company[11:09] NineDot Energy, the problem it's aiming to solve & Adam's founding story[13:32] Tanya's experience with the Incubator & differences in the NREL experience[17:39] Adam's experience with the Incubator: focuses & outcomes[19:55] Trish on the support offered by the Incubator[22:07] Energy storage & why its important, especially in New York[24:03] How is NineDot different[25:45] NineDot's partnerships & learnings[28:15] NineDot's overall traction & current measurements[29:23] What are community buildings & why focus on them[34:56] Community Energy Lab's technology & what makes it different[39:40] Community Energy Lab's overall traction & achievements so far[42:04] New cohorts for the Incubator & what to expect for the future[43:04] NineDot's role & what is needed to get there[43:58] What the future looks like for Community Energy LabsResources MentionedWells Fargo Innovation IncubatorNational Renewable Energy Lab, NREL's Innovation and Entrepreneurship CenterNineDot Energy Community Energy LabsConnect with Trish Cozart, Adam Cohen & Tanya BarhamConnect with Trish on

Dr. LaTanya White is an inclusive scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of racial equity and entrepreneurship curriculum design. Over the course of her professional career, she has coached and consulted more than 600 Black urban entrepreneurs. A 2x author, TEDx Speaker, leader and strategist, Dr. White is the founder and principal consultant for Concept Creative Group, a technical assistance firm focused on business development, capacity building, and Dynastic Wealth™ transfer for Black entrepreneurs.Dr. White developed her expertise in the intersection of the racial wealth gap and Black entrepreneurship through her graduate studies at Antioch University's Graduate School of Leadership and Change. As a result of her doctoral research on intergenerational wealth transfer and Black business families, Dr. White has designed an evidence-based entrepreneurship training model that specifically addresses the ancestral narrative and lived experience of Black entrepreneurs using a lens of racial equity.Dynastic Wealth™ is a comprehensive approach to the entrepreneurial process that cultivates quantitative and qualitative forms of wealth through the lens of racial equity. The model has implications for entrepreneurship education research, scholarship, and practice that require entrepreneurship training curricula to be redesigned through a lens of racial equity.She developed her own Foundation growing up in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida and began to Evaluate her inner strength and resilience as a student at Florida A&M University's School of Business and Industry. It wasn't until she was completing an MBA-level internship in Buffalo, NY did Dr. White begin to Analyze the entrepreneurial skillset she had developed but it would take a 13,000-mile trek to Bali, Indonesia before she had been Retrained to accept her purpose as The Guide that so many minority entrepreneurs needed to get over their fear and launch their business.Through active service under the Economic Development Programmatic Thrust with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Dr. White hopes to Leverage her sorority's global reach in an effort to recreate economic independence in communities of color.Her membership with the Glazer Kennedy Insider's Circle helps her teach her village about Efficient Systems like brand development, copywriting and direct marketing that helped catapult her own business. Formerly enrolled in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change at Antioch University, Dr. White's doctoral research produced a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum for Black entrepreneurs to build Dynastic Wealth™, the most Sustainable method for Black economic independence and Black mobility.Bringing her cumulative expertise and passion for Black entrepreneurship education together, Dr. White is launching the Entrepreneurship Center for Black Dynastic Wealth™. The Center will be a membership-based entrepreneurial learning accelerator for Black and African American entrepreneurs who want to go beyond generational wealth to create Dynastic Wealth™. Dr. White has been featured in several media outlets including Ask.com, Essence Magazine, Florida A&M University magazine, Forbes.com and SiriusXM Radio. Click here to learn more about Dr. White's past speaking engagements.

Como parte Aniversario X edición del Programa para Consejeros Esade-PwC, el director de Esade Madrid y el Centro de Gobierno Corporativo, Mara Lara, conversa con Eugenia Bieto sobre género y diversidad en el consejo de administración y la alta dirección. Bieto es consejera independiente de Endesa, presidenta de la Coordinadora Catalana de Fundaciones y tesorera del Círculo del Liceo. Fue directora general de la Fundación Esade entre 2011 y 2008, así como fundadora y directora durante 11 años del Entrepreneurship Center de Esade.

Today we speak with Trish Cozart, Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States. We discuss NREL's Public/Private Partnership, their focus on incubating creative energy solutions, and how they support their partners as they develop cutting edge solutions in the energy transition. https://www.nrel.gov

Dr. Susanne Perner ist AI Startup Scout im K.I.E.Z. Künstliche Intelligenz Entrepreneurship Zentrum sowie der Technischen Universität Berlin. Wir kennen uns seit ein paar Jahren, da wir beide immer mal wieder beim Venture Campus, einem Kursprogramm der TU Berlin, als Gastdozierende tätig waren. Im Podcast quetsche ich Susanne aus, wie man eigentlich gründet, was dafür nötig ist und wo Gründungswillige Unterstützung finden. Nicht immer sind wir einer Meinung, was besonders in einem so wichtigen Thema ein sehr gutes Zeichen ist. Susanne bei Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanneperner/ Entrepreneurship-Center der TU Berlin: www.tu.berlin/entrepreneurship KIEZ: www.kiez.ai Mein KI-Whitepaper: https://www.kaigondlach.de/portfolio/whitepaper-kuenstliche-intelligenz-und-das-ende-von-made-in-germany/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/imhierundmorgen/message

Running the Bases today with James Barrood, Founder and CEO of Innovation+ helping leaders, companies, Higher Ed institutions, and communities grow and drive innovation.“Thoughtfully bringing people together” -  Today's guest has a history of knowing what the next top trend is going to be, and he is an expert in working a room to connect the right people together in support of entrepreneurs and their ideas.    He is among the top leaders of the east coast's innovation ecosystem.  For 20-plus years he has helped nurture entrepreneurship,  Innovation, and technology in his home state of NJ as well as up and down the East Coast.   The entrepreneur gene runs deep in his family, after receiving his MBA from Texas A&M our guest entertained corporate positions but found his calling leading the top-ranked entrepreneurship and innovation center at Farleigh Dickinson University for 17 years. In 2008 he was recognized as one of New Jersey's “Forty Under Forty Business Achievers” by the New Jersey Business Journal.  After his successful run leading the Entrepreneurship Center.   He presided over the  New Jersey Tech Council where he lead programs that drove connections, funding, and opportunities in New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia for thousands of companies, both local and national. In addition, he helped launch the $55 million Tech Council Ventures Fund.  He has written articles for Entrepreneur, and Business Insider and frequently speaks at regional and global conferences.  He has appeared on MSNBC & ABC as well as many local New Jersey networks. In 2020 he founded Innovation + where he is continuing to cultivate the high-tech ecosystem by engaging the academic and corporate communities, advising companies, and helping startups get funded, grow and scale.To learn more about Jim and Innovation+ visit: http://innovationplus.us/Book:  Art of the GatheringGet Local SEO and Digital Marketing information from 38 Digital MarketListen and subscribe to our show on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcast, iHeart Radio, Pandora or TuneIn.Follow 38 Digital Market on our Social Accounts:FacebookLinkedInTwitterYoutubeInstagram

Do you need an MBA as an entrepreneur? [Show Summary] What does it take to become an entrepreneur who drives impact and change? Is an MBA necessary? Inge Kerkloh-Devif, Senior Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, shares her thoughts. Interview with Inge Kerkloh-Devif, Sr. Exec. Dir. & Sr. Vice President of the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center [Show Notes] Welcome to the 492nd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for tuning in. Are you trying to figure out how you should approach the four to eight applications that you're planning to submit when applying to an MBA program? You can get tips and answers by taking Accepted's free, short quiz – just six questions – at accepted.com/mapmba. By taking the quiz, you'll get a sense of how well you're approaching this critical process and gain access to relevant resources, both free and paid, that will provide you with an effective and efficient strategy for your MBA application effort.  Our guest today, Inge Kerkloh-Devif, earned her masters in Marketing and Communications at HEC Paris in 2006. Since then, she worked in business in Paris and then became Executive Vice President of HEC Paris's Executive Education Program, focusing on Global Business Development. In 2019, she moved into her current role as Senior Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. In 2021, she added to her responsibilities the role of Co-Site Lead Executive at the Creative Destruction Lab in Paris in partnership with the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. hbspt.cta.load(58291, '9bb31be0-3cf6-45f0-be3d-3791cc1bd9bd', {}); Can you tell us a little bit about both HEC's Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center and the Creative Destruction Lab in Paris? [2:11] Of course. The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center is the whole ecosystem we have built as a school around innovators and entrepreneurs. As we say, we think, we teach, and we act around innovation and entrepreneurship. That means we do research on innovation and entrepreneurship. We have more than 20 programs we are teaching at the school to teach innovation and entrepreneurship to our students. And we have all of our incubator acceleration programs, so students are learning by doing. Entrepreneurship is really part of the DNA of the school.  The Creative Destruction Lab, or CDL, was founded 10 years ago in Toronto, Canada at the Rotman Management School. They're now partnering with 12 universities all over the world to offer this objective-based program from massively scalable, seed-stage science and technology-based companies. It's really an acceleration program for deep tech. The program has an intake from more than 600 companies per year. We have one lab in Paris, we have one lab on climate, and one lab on space. What's the difference between deep tech and tech? [4:15] Very good question. I think I can give 10 different answers to this. For us, we can see this really emerging more and more in engineering and scientific projects. Those are really long-term projects. We are working with scientists and engineers to get these projects to grow. For us, it's specifically based on scientific and engineering projects to give this deep tech long-term projects. When I say we are working with scientists and engineers, they're coming out of the laboratories. It's very research-based.  If I have a business idea, or maybe I don't yet have a business idea, but I know that I want to be an entrepreneur at some point in my career, how can an MBA help me succeed? [5:33] I think of these as two different stages.  If you already have your idea or if you're just joining an MBA, what we can see is very often, students are launching their business or their ideas a little bit after completing their MBA. They learn all the basics, they build their network,

On this week's podcast I'm speaking with Katelyn McManamon, Special Projects Coordinator at the University of Scranton's Small Business Development Center, about the incredible six-week program for women interested in changing their lives and learning more about entrepreneurship. The program is free but women who are interested do need to complete an application. The next session begins on September 27 and any women who are interested can use the link provided below in the show notes. Keep in mind that the StartUP program is presented live via Zoom and the StartUP "Virtual" program is an online option through which women can work on their own schedule over the course of six weeks, accessing videos. For more information, visit the links below and feel free to email Katelyn at the email address provided below. As always, thank you from the bottom of my heart and the bottom of my wine glass, for listening. Please subscribe and share if you enjoy the content of this podcast. If you do not enjoy, au revoir and best of luck to you. Be well! StartUP Information: StartUP Application Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWF4wkodBNoILQlkCFpZ8rzUA95mEdWduuBZR7-Lj5JaWiiA/viewform StartUP Virtual Application Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScza5fOA-LEM2s6XqIFX52sx5-ZiRSUbquZTEjUfa9PFyvvfw/viewform To learn more about the Women's Entrepreneurship Center and the StartUP Program: https://www.scrantonsbdc.com/womens-entrepreneurship-center/ Message Katelyn with any questions at: katelyn.mcmanamon@scranton.edu --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

By now, regular listeners to this podcast have observed that I begin episodes with the word “Unstoppable”. I stole the idea from the old-time radio show Dragnet which began every show with the words “The Big” followed by other title words. Hey, it worked for Dragnet so why invent something new? You will hear near the end of this episode why I used “Unstoppable Guy” as the title.   Anyway, meet Dr. David Schein, JD, Ph.D. who currently is a Professor, Endowed Chair of Management and Marketing, and Director of Graduate Programs at the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas. Throughout his lifetime, Dr. Schein has worked first as a real estate salesperson, and then later as a lawyer for many years. Now he is teaching others his skills and giving them his knowledge and wisdom through his teaching efforts.   As you will discover, David made choices that moved his career along. His story is quite fascinating, and he is by any definition unstoppable. I hope you enjoy listening to David Schein's conversation and that he will inspire you with his thoughts. Please let me know your thoughts and, as always, please give us a 5-star rating after you hear what David has to say.     About the Guest: Dr. David D. Schein, MBA, JD, Ph.D. is a Professor, Endowed Chair of Management and Marketing, and Director of Graduate Programs at the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Schein is frequently interviewed on employment and business law matters. He speaks for business and industry groups throughout the United States on various current topics. His new book is: Bad Deal for America. He is also the author of The Decline of America: 100 Years of Leadership Failures (2018). He has been quoted in numerous national and local publications, including Forbes and US News and World Reports. In addition to hosting “Saving America” and “Business Law 101” webcasts, he has been interviewed on numerous webcasts and podcasts in the United States and England. He also is President and General Counsel of Claremont Management Group, a national human resource consulting and training firm, which is celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2019.   Author Website/Blog: https://claremontmanagementgroup.com/ Author Profile Page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09RNG3YY3/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 Goodreads Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17164693.David_D_Schein Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/authordavidschein/ Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/dschein1 LinkedIn Account: David Schein | LinkedIn       About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is an Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes UM Intro/Outro  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to talk with Dr. David Schein, who lives in Houston. And Dr. Shein, or David, as he likes to sometimes be called, is the Endowed Chair of the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas. And we'll get into all of that, and lots of other stuff. But David, I'm gonna go ahead and call you David, if that's okay. Welcome to mindset.   Dr.David Schein  01:54 Well, thank you. And I appreciate the invitation. And, you know, we had an opportunity for a pre interview recently. And I'm fascinated by your background and your accomplishments. So it's, it's it's fun to be back with you.   Michael Hingson  02:08 So do you do a podcast?   Dr.David Schein  02:10 Yes, I actually do two series right now I do. The main one is called saving America. And we're in our fourth season of that. And it's called the intersection of business and politics. And then the other series, which is more recent is called Business Law 101. And as I teach business law, to college seniors, we've selected different lectures and clipped them into just three to five minute portions. And we're now adding new sections of current business news events that have a legal aspect. So the case would be pretty busy.   Michael Hingson  02:52 Well, if you ever need to guest if you think we're a fit, after all of this, would love to explore it. That'd be great. Certainly, and certainly anyone who is listening to this, by the end, we will go through how you can reach out to David and you might be a guest on his podcast as well or certainly learn more about what he has to offer, but we'll get there. So, you said in our earlier discussions, that you grew up in a large family, I'd love to learn about that. Sure. I only had one brother so of course two parents, but only one brother. So we didn't have the luxury or, or challenges or joy of a large family.   Dr.David Schein  03:35 Well, it is a two bladed sword. I'm the oldest of seven children. My dad was a career enlisted member of the US Navy and especially in the time period I don't think they're well paid today. But certainly when he was doing his career in the military from shortly after World War Two until around 1980 The pay was was not good. And he had to you know struggle financially keep food on the table and keep a roof over our heads. And my mom because of the seven children really couldn't work outside the home because she had quite a bit to take care of it the house. We all had family responsibilities, the boys so we were very traditional background, the three boys we were responsible for yard maintenance and taking the trash out stuff and the girls helped my mom in the kitchen and with with laundry and things like that. So we all had our own responsibilities and basically clean up your own stuff. But it was it was a bit of a challenge at the same time. It's it's funny because of what you just said about having one on one brother because you get used to kind of it's it's more of a crew and An approach than an individualistic approach if you know what I mean.   Michael Hingson  05:04  Yeah. So I do understand what you're saying. So what what did your dad do?   Dr.David Schein  05:12 He was a chief Yeoman. And he retired as the chief Yeoman in the US Navy. He did 28 and a half years in the Navy, he actually was afforded an opportunity. The crossover degree or the enlisted level is called an ensign. An ensign is the crossover from enlisted to Officer. But he felt that at the time, they offered that to him, that the cost of uniforms to go to Officer uniforms and so forth, would would put too much of a financial crunch in the family. So he actually career to out as a as the senior enlisted officer, which is the chief in the Navy sergeant in the Army.   Michael Hingson  05:57 Interesting. So the military didn't pay for the uniforms and all that.   Dr.David Schein  06:04 Apparently, they they give you an allowance, but like in a lot of things, it's not enough to actually have a complete redo. And my dad was a very modest fellow. And I think he also felt socially pressured because he had not yet finished college. And generally speaking, in the military, the standard, pretty much post World War Two is that you finished college and you can start as a junior lieutenant, or, you know, junior officer, but then you can move up from there. So since he didn't have a college degree at the time, I think that was another factor,   Michael Hingson  06:41 a factor that kind of limited what he was able to get,   Dr.David Schein  06:46 right or that he was willing to take on, because he would have been dealing primarily with other officers who did have a college degree already.   Michael Hingson  06:54 So when did he actually term out in the military, then?   Dr.David Schein  06:59 I'm looking back I said, 1980, actually, I think it was around 1974. And so he actually was in the military through the Vietnam War. And at one point, he did have orders to go to Vietnam, which for a navy cabin person, if you will, Yeoman manages the business of the ship. That's a relatively safe position. But he would have been sitting on the ship outside of Tonkin Harbor, rather than being on land or flying planes over North Vietnam, which was, of course, as you know, from John McCain story, much more dangerous activity. But because he had so many children, there was some intercession there. And he was moved to a three year position at Norfolk, Virginia, which in turn ended up my strong connection to the state of Virginia. You know, Norfolk is navy town, USA,   Michael Hingson  07:59 right. So you grew up more than in Virginia than anywhere else?   Dr.David Schein  08:06 Well, I went to the school that I went to was divided in a very neat fashion. It had the school system in Norfolk, Virginia, which by the way, was a fully integrated system, which I thought was very beneficial. I went from a high school in Massachusetts, with a total of 12 black students in the whole school, in small town in suburban Boston, to a high school, a large high school that was 1/3, black. And so it was my first experience dealing with a much more diverse student population. And in fact, when I was in high school, this was still a transition period in the late 60s, where we're one of the first integrated high school debate teams. I know it seems strange today, but they the people around us were not used to seeing black and white students on the same high school debate team. And we had some interesting experiences because of that. But it was a great experience for me to go to a different state. But because it was a senior high school system when I moved there, starting my sophomore year in high school, all of the other students were starting there at the same time. So whereas many military families, you would just get dropped in at whatever day or semester that your father or mother ended up being transferred. You were kind of at the mercy of what was happening, but that did help me a great deal to be on the same level as the other students. In other words, we all were starting in a new school and our sophomore year, and it's quite a big high school. My graduating, the whole school had 2700 students for just three grades, and my graduating class had over 700 students.   Michael Hingson  09:57 What school was it again?   Dr.David Schein  09:59 It was called Norview Senior High and the novel Cavs gone back to the traditional system where the middle schools are sixth, seventh and eighth grade. And the high schools for the traditional four year high school, and but at the time was called Norview, Senior High. And it was one of the four high schools and Northfolk. And they expanded to five high schools while I was in high school I was fortunate enough to stay with, with Norview. But it was, it was very interesting experience because we were living in government housing, which was when you're in the military, especially as an enlisted man living in government, housing is a better deal, because the token cost of your housing, it cannot be replaced in the civilian marketplace. But it was very interesting, because I was the one of the first honors graduates that the high school ever had, who was living in the housing project that was served by that high school. And then my sister did it the the year behind us. So we kind of turned things around a little bit. I came in second in my high school graduating class, my sister graduated year behind me and was first in her class. So I think we redefined what it was like to have students coming out of a government housing project   Michael Hingson  11:21 must have been a little bit of a challenge, having seven kids and, and dealing with school and so on. Did you guys help each other a lot. We said we had a team network.   Dr.David Schein  11:34 Yeah, we had a particular system. Like I said, we all had family responsibilities, you know, chores to do. So what it looked like is the family would retire to the living room and watch the little black and white tea. But if they had at the time, and my sister Catherine and I who were the two oldest, would stay at the kitchen table and do homework until you know from say, you know, dinnertime until 10, sometimes later at night. And we did that every every night pretty much during the school year. So we there was my parents understood the need for us to do that. And the funny part was my parents, my mom had a GED, my dad was a high school graduate, my parents had no concept of what it was like to actually go to college, but they kept telling us you will go to college, you will go to college, college. And it's like, you know, once I got to college, it was like, I don't think my parents really quite handy that I had a clue. But in i in i didn't take any money from my parents once I left for college. And then my sister a year later also did not take any money when she left for college. So it was an unusual thing. And I find it interesting today that the federal government is talking about dismissing student loans. And, you know, all I can say is my sister, I don't know if my sister borrowed very much money at all. But I borrowed a modest amount of money for federally guaranteed loans, and I paid all of them back this year once I got out of school. And I think that's the appropriate thing to do. Because you're making an investment in your own future.   Michael Hingson  13:24 It is a lot more expensive to to do college. Now. I know when I went to university, California, Irvine. So it's the A state university system. I think it was like $273 of quarter for registration and so on. And I know living in the dorm. It was I think, if I recall, right. I'm trying to remember it was not it grossly expensive was like $1,200 to live in the dorm. And you know, it's of course, a lot different nowadays.   Dr.David Schein  14:09 Yes, it is it there's no question about it. And I just had my younger son finished college in 2018. And he attended, actually a branch of Texas a&m University, a state university here in Texas. And it was the cost of education was not trivial. But he did very well. He did very well when he's finished school. And I actually think he makes about what I make and he's working half as much so I think he had a good investment. And so you know, and one of the things that statistically they look at on the student loans is the two schools that have the largest student debt, our law school and medical school. Now in fairness law school is not a good Guaranteed payout a lot of people think it is. But, you know, speaking as a law graduate, you have to get out there and get job done and work hard. And especially if you hang out your shingle, it's certainly not a guaranteed paycheck. But for medical school, there's such an enormous demand for medical doctors, that the the normal payout is 10 to $20,000 a month as soon as they get their their medical license. So in that ballpark, I'm not sure why we would forgive student loans for those people unless they go to low income communities and do things like that. And then parallel to that, is the students who pursue education that go to work in urban school districts also get a certain balance. I think students with disabilities also can apply for student loan relief. So I favor more targeted programs than just blanket just saying, oh, we'll just write off all the student debt. I don't think that's I don't think it serves a social interest. In other words,   Michael Hingson  16:11 so you left high school and went to college. And you also, as I recall, started a radio show and eventually started your own business. Yes, early, you're doing a lot of innovative things and your family taught you well, how to think and how to move forward. And of course, the terminology we use is Be unstoppable. But tell us about college in your your business and the radio show, if you Well,   Dr.David Schein  16:39 thanks for bringing that up. I started I've been a writer since I was fairly young. And I went to K through 12k through eight rather, in the Catholic school system. And you know, that's a back then, especially when it's a very good school system with the nuns, who really focused on the three R's. And especially writing. And I'm not saying every every one of us can write, but certainly it inspired me to write and I was a very avid reader. And so when I was in high school, I was quite capable of writing papers, I used to type papers for other students and things like that. And so when I got to college, I started with the student newspaper. And the thing I ran into is they kept editing and changing my articles. I got a little upset with that after a while, when they would take an article I'd spent a lot of time writing and cut it in half. And not not very creative editing either didn't come out very good. So I had an opportunity to move into radio, went and got my license. And initially just was being a college, radio station DJ, a bit of trivia WX pn, which is the FM radio station at the Penn campus was started by none other than Hamlet prince, the famous Broadway producer just recently passed away. Yes. And I while I was doing the entertainment radio, which is what I morphed into, I actually had the opportunity to interview him several times. And he was very gracious and cordial to allow a, you know, a college student to interview him. I think he did that. Also, because we were at the SPN station initially. And so I morphed into doing a entertainment radio show from seven to 8pm on a Thursday night, and about a year into that the W H Y. Y, which is the public radio station for the greater Philadelphia area, approached me and said, Dave, how would you feel about moving your radio program, which was called the arts Menagerie? How would you feel about when we got over to h y, y. And the advantage for me is that   Dr.David Schein  19:08 while WX, pn had a very good broadcast area, in fact, the two radio stations ironically had about the same power and about the same geographic coverage, the being affiliated with H Y, Y, and gave me a much broader access to traditional press outlets like I got invited to press luncheons, that things that involve the entertainment community, and it just gave me a foot in the door. So it was a very exciting time period. For me, I covered all sorts of things, and the show was recorded in the early evening, and then broadcasts from 10 to 11pm on the East Coast, and I would cover stage plays, fine art exhibits and would include interviews with different people. were touring. And I also provided reviews of different stage place and art shows. So it, it certainly opened a lot of doors for me. And of course, an experience like that. It's a very maturing experience. I did not ever look at it as a business. But the business came about because of kind of an odd situation. I am one of those stone sober people. And I've never done drugs, I don't really understand why you would want to do drugs. And I was doing this at a time when which I colloquially referred to as sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. And the summer before I started college was Woodstock, which famously was quite a celebration of sex, drugs and rock and roll. And so it was kind of a Woodstock generation. But what what I ran into was just a very, very just oddball situation. So there was an art gallery called the painted bride on South Street in Philadelphia, and South Street had been where all the bridal galleries were affiliated, and were associated they would be there was a neighborhood of art galleries, and it was kind of a neat area. And by 1970, South Street was a ruin. All the businesses had closed and there was a lot of crime and everything. So these fellows got together these art artists and art appreciator people started an art gallery called the painted bride. And what, what they did was, they would have live entertainment on Friday and Saturday night to help out local artists, you know, folk singers and similar performers. So they somehow connected with me, and I began to cover events at the painted bride. And what happened during that time period is South Street, blossomed into an arts district. And it became very popular and very trendy, and they had some high end restaurants open on South Street and other art galleries and   Dr.David Schein  22:18 nice bakeries, and all sorts of things happened during the several year period that we're talking about. But in any event, I'm over the painted bride. And talking to some of the folk singers, and we actually had some of the folk singers come on my radio program and perform live. And you know, just with a guitar, they would just show up and you know, we didn't do any special miking or anything, we just sit them back from the mic a little bit. So we got to do some pretty interesting stuff. But what happened was several the folks on yours approached me and they said, you don't do drugs, do you? And I know that sounds like a funny question. But what was happening at the time, is that the traditional model is you have a manager if you're a performer, most performers do not have business backgrounds. There's a few out there who do, but most do not. And so what what would happen is, is that the manager would get paid for the evening, and we're not talking about a lot of money, it might have been $60, it might have been $100 would be a nice night for folks. So you're back in 1970. But if the manager was on drugs, the performer might only get 20 out of the $100 or might get nothing and so they became very concerned because they needed management help but they didn't want some drug addict taking the bulk of the money or taking most of the money. After all, they had done the work. And so I began to to slowly represent some folks or years and once the word got out, it was all word of mouth. This is course before the internet, and I didn't have the money to buy any advertising or anything. And so I we said we created an acronym. So the arts Menagerie is T A M. So we call the business operation tam productions. And I had an artist who worked with me a wonderful artist named Alan Walker, who sadly passed away about four years ago and Al did some wonderful artwork created logos and letterhead and things like that. And I would get on the phone and call various colleges mostly but also clubs and book the folk singers and then it morphed in added rock bands and add some fine arts and I put on some art shows to display the artists created artwork. So there's a lot of fun and and I was able to break even I didn't make any enormous amount of money out of it. If you can think about it. Somebody's per forming for 60 or $100. The Management Commission is between six and $10. So you have to have a lot of $10 conditions to kind of pay the rent rent wasn't bad. I remember the rent was around 110 or $115 a month.   Michael Hingson  25:19 Did you manage anyone who we might know?   Dr.David Schein  25:23 Well, unfortunately, not I, what happened is I was accepted to a full time MBA program at the University of Virginia, when I came out of my undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania. And so, because of the pressures of that, and leaving Philadelphia, were the artists all were local in the Philadelphia area, I turned over the business to a young fellow who had already started an agency and he absorbed my people. And unfortunately, and again, you know, pre email, I think the current generation forgets how much more work it was when you didn't have mobile phones and you didn't have email to stay in touch with people. And of course, I was, you know, working very hard at grad school. But I did unfortunately lose con contact. I do know that one of the performers, one of my very first performers that I worked with, did release a children's recording around 2005 or 2006. I found that on the internet, and but I wasn't able to find any of the other performers. I did have the opportunity as a member of the press to meet a number of very famous people, including Carol Channing. Helen Hayes, Edward Maul hair. Just quite a list of people. Probably one of the most fun luncheons I had was the rock promoter, Bill Graham. And Bill Graham came to Philadelphia as part of a tour. What had happened is that rock had exploded during the several year period that we're talking about in the early 1970s. And it went from small venues like the Fillmore Fillmore east and Fillmore West, into big stadiums that could absorb the sound from the who and these other big groups. And so, Graham did very intelligent thing. He did a big concert promotion, run at the very end, and then close the two play analysis. And he released a triple album of the closing of the Fillmore. And so what happened was, is that as when he's promoting that, I had an opportunity to have lunch with him. And of course, unfortunately, several years later, he died in a helicopter crash. But that was, you know, there, it was very interesting to get a chance to talk with him. Close up.   Michael Hingson  27:57 I remember being at UC Irvine one Sunday, and we learn that there was a symposium on the presidency. And one of the speakers was going to be Hubert Humphrey. So this was after he was vice president. Yeah, we have this little college radio station, we decided that we were going to interview him, there were a few of us. So we went over. And we learned where he they were going to park his limo, and then he would walk to the gymnasium to do the presentation. And we intercepted the car. And as he got out, we said, Mr. Vice President, could we interview you and and he was very gracious. He said, You know, after my presentation, I'll be glad to talk with you boys. And and sure enough after the the meeting was over, the symposium was over. There were other people at a Gallup from Gallup polling organization. I remember even asked him a question. We were pretty impressed by Gallup being there but anyway, he did. Humphrey did his his session and came back out and they were trying to hustle him right back into the car. And he said, No, I promised these boys an interview and we're going to do it. He did, which was was a lot of fun.   Dr.David Schein  29:15 You know, it's interesting. You mentioned Hubert Humphrey. We talked a little bit about my high school days. And in order to get a full scholarship to an Ivy League college, I worked pretty hard in high school. And one of the things that happened while I was in high school is the beginning of the fall semester of my senior year, I was invited to the national citizenship conference, which was held in Washington DC, and I got to stay at the Mayflower Hotel, and just all sorts of exciting things happened. And one of the things I did while I was there is I went to the Hubert Humphrey for President headquarters. There you go. And I actually have a full color poster of Hubert Humphrey for president and I'd never displayed it, I did display it in my dorm room, briefly. So it's got a few pinholes in the corners. But I haven't in storage at this time. And I will probably put that up at eBay at some point. And you know, it should be a kind of a fun item. But it's an authentic, I can vouch for it, because I personally picked it up in September 1968, from the uebert Humphrey for President headquarters. But it was very interesting. I do have a few other bits and pieces from my visit to their political office there. So and I've been, you know, following politics for, you know, very long time. And so, in addition to my interest in business is my interest in politics.   Michael Hingson  30:47 So you went on to Virginia after undergraduate school, right? Correct. Yeah,   Dr.David Schein  30:53 UVA, at that time, had a kind of a take off on the Harvard program. It was a two year case method program. And most of the professors at the Virginia Darden School, Colgate Darden School of Business, had attended Harvard and done their doctor Business Administration DBA program. And so it was a heavily case method program, which is why the Harvard system was was styled. And because of Charlottesville, being Charlottesville, especially back then today. It's a hotbed of startups. But back then it was kind of a sleepy town that just happened to be hosting a top notch Business School. And while I was in their two year program, which is very intense program, the school moved into the top 20. And I think it's been in the top 20 business schools since.   Michael Hingson  31:51 So you eventually went to the Wharton graduate school?   Dr.David Schein  31:55 Well, while I was an undergraduate at Penn, I attended, I took about a year's worth of credit at the Wharton graduate division. And that was a very interesting experience. At that time. I don't know how pennant structure today, but at that time, there was no barricade between taking undergraduate graduate courses. And so I took a full years equivalent at Wharton graduate. And as I finished, the people at Wharton graduate knew me because they started the first entrepreneurship center in the United States collegian Entrepreneurship Center. And the person who started that center, love to interview the young David shine. Because I was out there doing it, you know, with, you know, running it out of the second bedroom in my little apartment, and they got kind of a kick out of it. And they would periodically when I would blow through their building, they'd say, hey, you know, let's talk to you for a few minutes. You know, what's the latest and kind of things that you and I just talked about? They would talk to me about it as they got it started. And to give you an idea of recently UPenn opened an entire building dedicated to that entrepreneurship center. So that center has been very successful. But what happened was, is the Wharton graduate people said, you know, look, they and they were blunt, they said, Look, shine, we know you too well, we don't want you to just stay here and get an MBA, go someplace else. And I was very ambitious and wanted to get my credentials. And the Darden School at Virginia was a similar program, they really wanted people who had been out working for, you know, two or three years and then come back for their doctorate, or master's degree rather. But in my case, they they allowed me to come in directly from college, because I have, I did have the radio show. And I did have the business experience of having my own business. Now, if I had it to do over again, I would really should have gone out and worked, as we say, worked corporate for a couple years and gotten a little bit more background before I got my MBA. But you know, that's, you know, that that's all news at this point. And in fact, I went directly from the Darden program to law school. And my connection to Euston was, I had family here in Houston. And they said, Hey, we heard you're thinking of going to law school, lunch, come down here and check out the University of Houston. So that was how I ended up at Euston.   Michael Hingson  34:32 What cause you though, to get a doctrine of jurisprudence or go into law, even though you had clearly been kind of going in another direction?   Dr.David Schein  34:41 Well, a couple of things that it I found that there were hitches. And frankly, I tried to get some legal help for like drafting contracts for my performers and things like that. And the attorneys that I worked with, I'll be very blunt. On work was sloppy. They didn't take, you know, young guy who was still in college seriously. They didn't give us the quick turnaround that we needed with contracts and things like that. And so I said, you know, I want to make sure that I'm a different kind of attorney at a business attorney who really, you know, get stuff out the door quickly. And so that was one factor. The other factor is at that time, a number of major corporation print presidents were also law graduates. So people either had an MBA and a law degree or just a law degree, and had been moved into the corner office. So I saw it as, as a win win move to go to law school. If I had that to do over again, I would probably law schools interesting, because for most people, it's a three year full time gig, or four year part time gig. And I would probably have taken some of the very generous offers I had finishing the MBA program and gone to law school at night on the four year cycle. So again, you know, there's a lot of options that you come across on the road there, but I did do college, the MBA in the law degree back to back to back, and all of them full time. I did finish law school a semester early. So that that helped me a little bit.   Michael Hingson  36:28 Something that I'm curious about, you have, clearly so far, we're talking all about your education, but you've done some pretty well rounded things, you've gotten an MBA, you went and got a law degree and so on. How did your upbringing and your your family life kind of shaped you to have that kind of mental attitude about going after education and just being really a survivor in what you did in college, and then later?   Dr.David Schein  36:59 Well, my parents worked very hard. Like I said, my mom did a little bit of gig work outside the house from time to time, but generally was a full time homemaker. And I can tell you, when you're raising seven kids, and you're doing a great job, which she did, she did a phenomenal job. That's That's dedication. That's hard work. That's you get you get up early, and you work hard all day. My dad, at the same time, had a successful military career. And he often worked a second job, especially when I would have been in middle school. Before we moved to Norfolk, Virginia, he works seasonal work in the evenings that would accommodate his military schedule when he was on shore duty. The way the Navy works, you're on a ship for two years, and then you're on shore duty for two years, and they rotate that. And so when he was on his shore duties schedule, he would work a second job to make some additional money and help keep the bills paid. So having seen my parents work that hard, certainly set a good example for us. The other thing, as I mentioned is my parents were they were pretty tough on us in terms of you will go to college, you will study hard, you will go to college. So my parents, you know, the paid attention to that and imbued us with this overall drive. My dad's family had a business interest and so my father's father was a mom and pop grocer in a small town in Massachusetts before the a&p opened the first major supermarket chain, open one of their locations in Taunton. Again, Tom's a small town between Boston and Providence, and over on the eastern part of Massachusetts, but it was kind of interesting, because that's a tough business and Joe shine. My father's father ran that grocery store during the Great Depression, when people were you know, they were giving food away up the street to people who weren't working. And here he was selling food. So he was a very creative person and in so the, you know, it's kind of a blood line   Michael Hingson  39:16 there. What did you do after you got your law degree?   Dr.David Schein  39:23 Well, being here in Houston, Texas, it was pretty straightforward. A while I was in law school, second half of law school, I worked for Gulf Oil, part time you get on an hourly basis working with natural gas contracts. When I finished law school, I got a minor offer from Gulf that I turned down another offer from another oil company. And I turned that down and then I hit the right one is I was given a job offer by Shell Oil Company, and I then had a nice, brief career with Shell Oil I work for Shell Look, the three states in three years, I had two promotions in that time period. And it was a tremendous place to work. The people say, Well, Dave, it was such a great place to work. Why did you leave? Well, I left to be a manager at a midsize oil company. And part of the problem with a Shell Oil is it's such a big organization, that if you're very ambitious, the opportunity to move up tends to be a little slower, just because there's so much competition, there's so many people between you and the next rung up the ladder. So I did you have a great deal more physical freedom and opportunity to do more things with a smaller oil company. But that's so I did, I went with another old company. And so my total corporate employment was about 10 years. And at that point, I hung out my shingle. And so I did private practice for about a dozen years after that.   Michael Hingson  40:59 You couldn't convince them to change the name of the company from Shell Oil to Schein oil Hmm.   Dr.David Schein  41:05 Well, I'll tell you, they after I left shell that they, at some point, shell did start a new ventures division. And I thought that was pretty interesting. And I actually knew some people worked in the shell ventures operation. And I think if they'd had that when I was still there and had an opportunity to go over there, that might have been a pretty interesting thing, because basically, shell would let some of their executives work on some of the startup company ideas. And I think that was a pretty creative approach. Shell also went through some major changes. It used to be there was shell, USA, and shell, Dutch Shell, that parent company, and then they kind of liquidated shell USA and created like Shell global or something like that. So the company did go through some changes, but that was after I left and gone to the technical Oil Company. Technical Oil Company was one of the big conglomerates at the time when conglomerates were sexy. Of course, ITT was the most famous one, Harold Geneen. But tenneco was a very successful adult, primarily, the money originally came from the oil and gas industry following World War Two. But unfortunately, while I was there, the company kind of self destructed. And one of the reasons why I decided to set out in private practice was I could see that the tentacle was on the way out. So organization, and I felt it's better to get out there and do my thing. And, and that was a very interesting and enjoyable period. And you know, as I tell people, and I left corporate, and went out, hung out my shingle, and I did that, and never missed a mortgage payment. But, again, similar to starting my business in college, it was certainly not an easy path.   Michael Hingson  43:01 What did what did you do? What kind of law did you practice once you went out on your own?   Dr.David Schein  43:05 I have always been a small business representative. And my main focus is employment law. So I do a lot of business contracts, and I do lots of employment law. And when I was corporate, that was my responsibility. I was a human resource representative. I worked in industrial relations, which is working with unions when I was at Shell Oil. And then when I went to tenneco, I worked with unions and I also did a lot of retail employment law, technical at the time was operating about 500 large cell service gas stations in the south in the southeast, and I handled a bout 1500 EEOC complaints over a five year period, that's a pretty good volume.   Michael Hingson  43:58 Well, somewhere along the line, you got involved in some way or another and Equal Employment and Disability Law and so on. I gather   Dr.David Schein  44:08 that is correct. When I was at tenneco, I was I got involved with the Texas Commission on employment of the handicap, which of course, we use the term disabled today. But Texas was actually ahead of the fence because this was in the 80s, the Texas law related back to the 70s. And so I did have an opportunity to work with a fellow named Bill Hale who headed up that commission for the state of Texas and was also kind of on the ground floor when President Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And then that was phased into effect between 90 and 94. So I was one of the early people understand it because it has a lot of the features that the state law passed. And you know, I'm very active advocate for employment of the disabled. As recently as yesterday, when I was teaching business law, I was talking with my students about the, the, you know, importance of consideration of how reasonable accommodation works under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and how the important thing is to take a look at people for what they can do, not what they can't do.   Michael Hingson  45:26 Yeah, and of course, today, we would probably even call it the commission for the disabled, rather commission for persons with disabilities, because we really, the words do matter. And yes, saying I'm disabled, because I happen to be blind, should really be no different than saying you're disabled, because you happen to be able to see and without lights, you don't have a lick of probability of being able to travel around. But you know, we, we all have our challenges. And we also all have our gifts. So I appreciate persons with disabilities as opposed to other things. One of the I had a discussion with someone this morning, who was talking about the fact that I'm visually impaired, and I said, I don't think so. Again, words matter, because I said, Why do you say I'm visually impaired? Do I look different? Simply because I'm blind? Is my whole appearance change visually? Because I'm blind? Yeah, I don't like vision impaired because I think I have lots of vision, as I love to tell people I just don't see so good. But I say and vision are enough synonymous that vision impaired is something I could tolerate, although I think that either I'm sight impaired, or you're blind, impaired. And you know, one way or the other. We we work that out. But disability is a term that has to become different than what people have believed in and decided that it is because the reality is, having a so called disability has taught me that everyone has a disability, and why should I be different than anyone else, just because I'm in a minority. And of course, that's a real problem, right? I happen to be in a minority. And the result is that people who are not tend to think, because we're taught that way that we're better.   Dr.David Schein  47:23 Well, I think, obviously, might be made some very, very good points there. And as a person who does management, training, for EEO sensitivity, and things like that, I emphasize the fact that there's so many opportunities in life. And it's interesting what you say, I have very good daytime vision. But I have large eyes. But I didn't really realize they don't look that big to me. But I have large pupils, which means that in light, I have to protect my eyes from too much light. And in the dark, I have extreme trouble seeing in the dark. So I'm one of those people that when I walk into a room late in the afternoon, or in the evening, the first thing I do is run for lights and turn all the lights off. Because that way I don't trip and fall over something and I actually clear paths so that I'm able to function if if I don't turn the lights on, and I decide to, you know, get up before daylight or something like that. So yeah, all of us have to make adjustments for whatever is unique about us. And probably a better word is saying what are your unique qualities and qualifications versus saying what are your disabilities?   Michael Hingson  48:47 And I think that's an absolutely valid point. And one I wish more people would would recognize, how do you think the Americans with Disabilities Act? Looking back on it now? Because it's been 31 years since it was signed? Yes. How do you how do you feel that it is really changed? Well, our our whole outlook on people with minorities such as I have, or have we really mentally changed all that much.   Dr.David Schein  49:24 You know, I don't think we've changed it. First of all, I think the Act has helped. That's, that's number one. I think it's a positive in itself. I think there's a couple of major issues with it. One of them is that my experience, which is extensive, I've handled over 2000 EEOC complaints at this point, again, a very high volume when I was working with retail gasoline stations, is that the least competent federal agency I've dealt with which is really saying something when you consider how incompetent So many of the federal agencies are is, is EEOC, and in my experience with them has been that they're there, they're not serving the public interest, sadly, and they're not well run, and they, they don't train their people well. And I think if you're going to have a dis, you know, a division that helps people with discrimination, that it ought to be a lot more effective that it should be number one focused on education before everything else. And I don't see them doing much of that. Number two, what's happening throughout the United States with the EEOC is they are flooded with complaints, they are flooded. And what the EEOC needs to do is they need to put a tough person in charge at each office, who, who sells people to get a life and show up for work and do your damn job. And pick out the cases that require attention that really should have attention. Because by trying take every case that comes in the door, they end up not giving good service to the people who are legitimately discriminated against, which is a fairly small percentage of the population, by the way. And they're, they're not, they're not getting anybody's job done. So I'd like to see them run a lot better than the alr. And I don't have a magic wand for that. But that's part of what I'm seeing, again, as somebody who's had a lot of work with the the see. But in terms of education, I think that we have done a better job of sensitizing our population, particularly our younger population, to the realities of we're all different. And I think part of making people more sensitive to what color people are protection of LGBT, and things like that, that if you know, as developing a more accepting population, and frankly, a better educated population. And Michael, you touched on some key points of that is that you, you have certain positives and attributes that you use to be an effective person. And that's what we need to focus on is what are the pieces that somebody can do that makes them effective. And what I talked with my students about just yesterday is to if you there used to be if somebody would would come in to a employment application. And when we used to have paper applications, almost everybody courses using online today, but a person in wheelchair would roll into an office and say to the person at the front desk, I'd like an employment application. And the person that front desk would say, Well, sir, you're in wheelchair, you know, we're not going to give you a we're not going to give you an employment application, because your wheelchair and the Americans Disability Act, of course, you know, interfered with that took a while for employers to figure that out. But to avoid that knee jerk reaction that this person can't do the job, let's focus on what they can do. And when somebody gets hurt at work and can't do the job they could previously do. That doesn't mean you just dump them on the street, it means that you make reasonable accommodation, and you try to see the best way to put that person to work. Do they have other skills, they may not be able to drive a truck or do certain mechanical things anymore? But are they capable of being a dispatcher or bookkeeping or sales calls? Is there someplace else that that person can be valuable to your company?   Michael Hingson  53:47 One of my favorite speeches that I deliver is called moving from diversity to inclusion is actually part mostly the second episode and unstoppable mindset. And one of the things that I talk about in there is how people deal with disabilities. And I actually play a segment from a television show called What would you do that John, Ken Jonas and IB, Elan ABC does, and this particular episode had? Well, the premise of the show is they get actors to play different roles. And they do it to see how people will react to uncomfortable situations. So they had in this case, two women from the Rochester Institute for the Deaf, they were deaf, and they go into this coffee shop where there's a guy behind the counter who happened to be an actor, a a barista, and there's a sign out that they're looking for employees. And so one of them goes up and says, I want to apply for a job and the guy goes, well, what what can you do? And she says, Well, you have a kitchen job available here and he said Yeah, but you can't do that you're deaf. And she and by the way, this is only in the last 12 or 13 years. So it's way post ADA. Yeah. And she says, well, but it's a kitchen job, I'm not really being out here I would be in the kitchen. Well, but what if I need something immediately? And she's, well, you could, you could write it down Well, I don't might not have the time to write it down. You're just not someone that I could hire. And the whole point is to see how people who over here this react and so part of the, the show, and they record it all, of course, part of the show had three HR people come up to this barista not knowing that he's just an actor, and say, Look, you handled that all wrong. These people have more rights than we do, this is all recorded, these people have more rights than we do, you should have just taken the application written not a fit, and filed it and sent them on their way.   Dr.David Schein  56:01 Oh, my goodness.   Michael Hingson  56:03  And some, some others really hit the roof about what this barista guy was doing. And of course, they they intercept everyone and tell them what's really going on somewhere on the line. But, but we really have still a very long way to go in terms of how we, we deal with so called disabilities. And it's in part because of that show that I came up with this whole concept. And in reality, we all have disabilities, most of you are like dependent, and we love you anyway. But, you know, the, the fact is that we shouldn't be judging what someone's abilities are or aren't. And it's, it's so unfortunate that we do well, it   Dr.David Schein  56:44 this is a, you've raised an important example. And as I indicated, that is the classic that I try and untrained people from, if you will, to have that knee jerk reaction, it's like, let's focus on what this person can do. And unfortunately, because of decades and decades of discrimination against people with disabilities, you have a very interesting situation out there, where when a person has been accommodated, and does get a position where the company has reached out and said, let's see how we can get afford this person opportunity. A lot of times they tend to be great employees, and tend to have be very loyal to the companies that are more accepting and inclusive. And so it's, it's, you know, it's a win win for the situation.   Michael Hingson  57:39 Sure. How did you get into education, college education, and so on from law?   57:47 Well, I had decided that as I left law school, that about the 25 year marker, that I would move into education, it's just something I felt that that was an appropriate, you know, career path for me. So I did a, you know, a decade corporate and about 12 years in private practice full time. And then when my last kid left for college, I said, you know, it's time for me to do something. And I had been adjunct teaching very actively. And what happened was, is I realized that with even though I had a law degree in an MBA, I was very well qualified, that without a PhD, I would not be successful and competing for tenure. And if you're not a tenured professor, you know, that's kind of the gold standard in higher ed. And so I went back to the University of Virginia where I'd got my MBA, and I worked on my PhD full time. And it was quite an eye opener. And I know we're running out of time, I'll just say very quickly. The MBA PhD program went very, very well for me, I did quite well like finished program a year ahead of my cohort, because I was so focused and went year round and so forth, managed to continue to work with my clients here in Houston, to you know, least keep keep the bills paid. But unfortunately, when I finished my PhD, it took me two years to get my first full time appointment. And the discrimination that I faced as a person who got their PhD in the mid 50s, H mid 50s. Whereas the traditional and this touches on classic discrimination. The traditional PhDs are in their mid 30s. So I was 20 years older than the normal quotation marks PhD recipient, and it's been a bit of a struggle, so I'm very appreciative of the universities that did afforded me a full time teaching opportunity. And once I got into the track, I progressed from a visiting Peru Professor to a full professor to tenure, endowed chair, but I had to have that opportunity in the first place.   Michael Hingson  1:00:08 So in addition to all of that you mentioned earlier that you like to write even when you were young, what's writing done for you, in all of your experiences?   Dr.David Schein  1:00:23 Well, you cannot get a PhD. If you're not a writer, you cannot be a successful attorney without being a writer. And you cannot be an author unless you sit down in your write. And so one of the things that PhD did for me is it gave me the understanding of doing deep research and things like that. And that enabled me to write decline of America 100 years of leadership failures, which was released by postale press on Presidents Day 2018. And then my newer book, a bad deal for America, was released on Presidents Day 2022. And I'm hoping not to have a four year gap between that and my next book, but I am working on as we talked about briefly on a musical review, called novel T, the letter T. And it is a musical review of novelty songs from the 50s through the 70s and 80s, when there were variety of novelty songs that became gets on the radio. So that's a throwback to my days of doing the arts Menagerie.   Michael Hingson  1:01:30 Flying purple people eater was Shep willing, I would assume   Dr.David Schein  1:01:34 you are very good. That is definitely in the list. And I'll have to go back. And look I have one of my research assistants has been talking to the different publishing houses to make sure that we have the rights to to present that. So the review focuses on the music. There's not a lot of text in between. But we actually through doing podcasts to promote my current book, met a gentleman, Douglas Coleman, and Douglas has a podcasting show. And he has actually written a theme song for the new musical. And that's very close to being ready.   Michael Hingson  1:02:16 That sounds like a lot of fun.   Dr.David Schein  1:02:19 That's the plan. It's designed to be family friendly.   Michael Hingson  1:02:22 It should be that would be a good thing. Well, how do people get ahold of you reach out to you learn about you and your books and so on, as well. You've been an unstoppable guy. There's no question about things. And you're driven.   Dr.David Schein  1:02:39 I'm still working on it, Michael. It's, it's a it's a work in progress. And my consulting firm is called Clermont management group. So we're Wide Web Claremont management group.com. I am on Facebook. I'm on LinkedIn, Twitter, Geter, and I'm trying to remember some others. But I'm pretty easy to find and of course of both of my books, bad deal for America and decline of America are on Amazon.   Michael Hingson  1:03:08 So is there a specific email address or LinkedIn address or anything that people should?   Dr.David Schein  1:03:14 It's D shine and you know, about the only hard part is my last name is s ch, e i n, it's, it's spelling. You know, the EI is announced sign for the German spelling. But other than that, if people can put in David de shine, and it'll probably pop up several places. I think Amazon is got enough market power that that tends to pop up first.   Michael Hingson  1:03:40 Right? Well, David, thank you very much. This has been fun. And as I told you, initially, and I say, on the podcast, one of the reasons for doing this is to tell stories that will inspire people. And I've got one last question I've got to ask, what would you advise both for young people today and parents today, having grown up in a time when information wasn't so readily available, or self-gratification wasn't so readily available? Now, both of those kinds of things have changed and everyone wants everything immediately? How would you advise people, kids and adults?   Dr.David Schein  1:04:23 Well, I think it's extremely important to mirror what my parents did, which is that the focus of childhood should be on education and a solid three Rs education. Even though I'm a business professor. I encouraged stem and I'd like to see us get as many children motivated for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math stem as possible in the United States because we are trailing other countries, and I would encourage parents to be involved in their children's education. Trying to make sure that the children are getting a real education and not a bunch of political malarkey is let's focus on the three R's. And let the students when they get a little bit older, figure out how they want to move in life in terms of politics, and you know, those kinds of things. And everybody can get through college, again, this student loan dismissal stuff, clouds, the fact that there are plenty of scholarship opportunities. There are financial loans out there. The school that I teach at, we have 92% of our undergraduates on financial aid, many of that is grants, that doesn't mean loans. I mean, that's money, they don't have to pay back. And so if students do well in high school, and they perform well, there are opportunities for them. And again, I'm living proof that if you if you've put in the time, and you do it, it can be I was successful as a corporate person and successful in private practice and successful in higher ed. But it came with putting in that time, and having that good parental support at home at the critical period when I needed a   Michael Hingson  1:06:12 course, if we're going to be totally technical. And this was even a Jeopardy question recently, out of the three R's. There's only one that's really an art. And that's the reading because writing isn't an art and arithmetic doesn't start with. You are absolutely correct.   Dr.David Schein  1:06:31 I wasn't a very good speller when I was in grammar school, and the nuns used to really take me to task I think spelling used to be a separate grade when I was in grammar school with the nuns. And I flunked several years in a row and you say, well, let's get this straight. You are a young high school graduate, you've just graduated before you turned 80. How the heck did you get through flunking all those courses, and it was very straightforward. My mother was the secretary for the church operation down the street. And the nuns knew that Dave shine sometimes flunked spelling, and cursive writing, but he was a pretty smart kid, and his mom was right there with him. And so they passed me, you know, probably fourth, fifth and sixth grade. But what happened was, is when I got to that point where the light switch went on, and I said, Gosh, I can really do this, I had a very successful seventh and eighth grade, and then a very successful high school experience, because I did absorb that even if I didn't show it on my report card.   Michael Hingson  1:07:38 And then you went on from there. Well, David Schilling, thanks for being here. We really enjoyed it. And I hope it inspires parents and kids and and I hope it inspires people to reach out to you.   Dr.David Schein  1:07:54 Well, I'm delighted to do it, Michael, it's been an absolute pleasure to meet you and my folks of work with your folks to see about having you make an appearance on saving America   Michael Hingson  1:08:05 would love to do it. 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Wir stellen heute wie jeden zweiten Donnerstag eine der relevantesten Hochschulen in Deutschland vor. Dabei zeigen wir auf, was das Geheimnis einer Gründungsschmiede ist und wie junge Leute den Weg von der Uni zum erfolgreichen Startup bestreiten können. Dafür begrüßen wir heute Maximilian Eickel, Managing Director des WHU Entrepreneurship Centers. Dieses Entrepreneurship Center soll als intellektueller, virtueller und physischer Hub, in dem sich Menschen vernetzen und Ideen umsetzen können, die unternehmerische Zukunft für Studierende, Alumni und andere Ökosystempartner der WHU-Community aufbauen. Dafür wird ein breites Spektrum an akademischen und praxisbezogenen Lernangeboten zur Verfügung gestellt. Ein Beispiel hierfür ist das 7-wöchige Intensivprogramm für WHU-Studierende, -Alumni und -Mitarbeitende namens WHU Accelerator, welches mit einem Demo Day endet, an dem u.a. Business Angels und VCs anwesend sind, sodass sogar die Möglichkeit einer Seed-Finanzierung besteht. Ein weiteres Programm ist „Innovative Tools to Transform Entrepreneurship Digitally“, bei dem mit den neuesten Methoden sowie Erkenntnissen aus der Forschung und in Synergie mit praktischen Strategien eine innovative Denkweise angeregt werden soll. Laut Angaben der WHU wurden durch das Entrepreneurship Center mehr als 700 Startups gegründet, u.a. Zalando, Hello Fresh, Rocket Internet, Home24, Enpal, Forto, MyToys, Clark, Skrill, Audibene, Raisin, Jokr, Sumup, Flink und Flixbus. Insgesamt konnten nach diesen Angaben auch über 27.000 Arbeitsstellen in WHU Startups und über 63.000 Anstellungen durch WHU Alumni geschaffen werden. An den Standorten Vallendar, Berlin und Düsseldorf werden 14 Kurse von Venture Capital Finance bis hin zu Entrepreneurial Selling angeboten. Zudem bietet eine Kooperation mit der Kölner Bildungseinrichtung Le Wagon die Möglichkeit eines Coding Bootcamps. Weitere Programme wie das „General Management Plus Program“ oder das News-Format „Startups Investment Report“ runden das holistische Portfolio der Gründungsschmiede ab.

In our fifth episode, Gorgi Krlev and Dominik Domnik discuss what it takes to foster innovation that benefits society. We delve into what social innovation is, and what role public policy and specific funding instruments play for the growth of the sector. Gorgi is an assistant professor of sustainability at ESCP Paris. He has conducted a study comparing and assessing approaches from 10 different countries to support social innovation. Dominik works for LMU's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. He has previously worked for a foundation and a family office and set-up his own social business. They discuss the rationale for factoring in the long-term benefits for society when investing into innovative solutions to societal problems, whether you are a policy maker or an investor. We also address jargon and how to bridge cultural differences between the private sector, the public sector, and civil society to jointly promote social innovation. Links Gorgi conducted the study “Financing Social Innovation” on behalf of SEND, the German Social Entrepreneurship Network. Examples mentioned by Gorgi and Dominik: Portugal Social Innovation is a government initiative aimed at stimulating the social investment market in Portugal. It mobilizes around EUR 150 million from the European Social Fund through 4 financing instruments: capacity building for social investment, partnerships for impact, social impact bonds, and the social innovation fund. Power Up Scotland develops early stage social businesses through investment, business support and cross-sector partnerships. It has been launched by Big Issue Invest in partnership with the Scottish Government and the University of Edinburgh. The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra received an endowment capital fund of approximately 84 million euros from the Bank of Finland and the Finnish Parliament. Sitra's work is funded by the returns from its capital. Investments up and running and underway include Social Impact Bonds (SIB), e.g. with a focus on Type 2 diabetes prevention. For feedback on the show or to suggest guests for future episodes, contact us at scifi@esmt.org

Throughout his career in the technology transfer realm, Kevin Cullen has been driving transformation. From introducing the concept of Easy Access IP at the University of Glasgow and the University of New South Wales, to his current position as Vice President of Innovation and Economic Development at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he is helping Saudi Arabia reach its goal of enhancing global prosperity through focusing on research and innovation in the food, water, energy, and environmental sectors. Although technology transfer in Saudi Arabia is less developed than it is in the western world, this is not necessarily a disadvantage, and in today's episode Kevin shares what he greatly admires about KAUST's approach. He also explains what motivates him to do the work he does, the importance of having an open mind, why universities should focus less on IP licensing and more on professional development and consulting, and more!   KAUST has made incredible progress in the 12 years since its founding, and Kevin has even bigger and bolder plans for its future!    In This Episode: [00:51] Introducing Kevin Cullen, Vice President of Innovation and Economic Development at KAUST. [03:53] The philosophy that underpins the work that Kevin does in the technology transfer space.  [04:14] Easy access IP; the role that Kevin played in making this idea more widely accepted.  [06:08] How Kevin ended up at KAUST, and what he greatly admires about the university. [08:20] An overview of the short history of KAUST and its 4 founding research pillars. [09:59] Why Kevin thinks universities focus too much on IP (and the elements he thinks they should be prioritizing more).  [12:09] Similarities and differences between the technology transfer sector in Saudi Arabia and in the west.  [14:40] Vision 2030; the Crown Prince's plan for Saudi Arabia, and how Kevin is helping turn this into a reality.  [20:09] Examples of the diverse range of research coming out of KAUST. [20:45] The difference between industry-directed and industry-informed research. [21:37] Progress that KAUST has made with its Entrepreneurship Center and its Investment Fund.   [24:28] The unprecedented attendance at the first MOOC to come out of KAUST. [29:41] Activities, outcomes, and impact; an explanation of these three measurements that Kevin uses to determine success.  [34:00] The importance of keeping an open mind when working in the technology transfer space.  [37:26] KAUST's approach to supporting startups (coming from within and outside of the university), and why not everyone should aim to be an entrepreneur.  [41:50] Aspirations that Kevin has for the future of technology transfer at KAUST. [43:37] KAUST's main corporate partners and the value that Kevin sees in these partnerships.   [46:55] Why a university's reputation is its greatest asset.  [47:38] Impactful startups that have come out of KAUST. [52:26] The biggest challenges that Kevin and his team are currently facing. [56:19] Programs that KAUST runs that are focused on enhancing gender diversity.  [58:59] Kevin's involvement in technology transfer organizations, and the value that they provide. [1:01:28] Wishes that Kevin has for his office.    Find Kevin: Email  

After a record-breaking 2021 with staggering valuations and a total of 84 new European tech unicorns, the number of new venture capital investors in Europe has simultaneously decreased by almost half. With 61 new investors in 2021, including ten headquartered in the United Kingdom, the total number of European investors thus rose to 817 at the end of the previous year. A study by international tech M&A advisor i5invest, venture builder i5growth, and the Entrepreneurship Center of the Vienna University of Economics and Business shows that British investors have in excess of €468 billion in assets under management and a particular focus on investments in HealthTech & Life Science. Investors in Europe Despite Brexit, the UK continues to lead the ranking of countries with the most local investors in Europe (351), followed by Germany in 2nd place (199), France in 3rd place (128), and the Netherlands in 4th place (70). While the DACH region grew the fastest in terms of new investors in 2020, Scandinavia counted among the most newcomers last year. “Most central European countries have relatively constant growth figures. Scandinavia however was able to increase while we observed only about one-third of newly founded investors in the UK in 2021 compared to the year before”, emphasizes Herwig Springer, CEO of i5invest, indicating a possible change in trend. The portfolios of British investors are the most successful out of any in a European comparison. Of a total of 130 European startups valued at more than one billion dollars, the so-called unicorns, 68% have at least one British venture capitalist on board. For companies that investors believe have the potential to reach this billion valuation threshold in the next 24 months, the so-called soonicorns, this figure is as high as 60%. Out of the 191 investors primarily based in the UK, 67% have an early-stage investment focus, at least among other stages. This trend appears to be unbroken – nine out of the ten new investors founded in 2021 invest exclusively in early-stage startups. “European scale-ups in later stages are largely dependent on money from the UK where by far most of the European growth capital is concentrated. However, the bigger the funding round, the more likely we see a US investor in the lead. There is definitely potential for more growth capital across Europe”, says Simona Huebl, CEO of i5growth. Europe's Most Active and Most Powerful Investors Based on assets under management in 2022, Novo Holdings (Denmark), Balderton Capital (UK), Atomico (UK), Target Global (Germany), and Verdane (Norway) are the most powerful European venture capital investors. CVC Capital Partners (Luxembourg), Partners Group (Switzerland), Ardian (France), Intermediate Capital Group (UK), and Schroder Adveq Management (Switzerland) lead the private equity ranking. The total assets under the management of all investors included in the European Capital Report 2022 amount to more than €3,286 billion. The most active European venture capital investors based on the number of investments made in 2021 are Global Founders Capital with 233 investments (Germany), followed by Seedcamp (UK), BGF (UK), Entrepreneur First (UK), and SFC Capital (UK). In the ranking of the largest venture capital investors from the UK in 2022 based on the respective assets under management, Balderton Capital leads ahead of Atomico, BGF, Octopus Investments, and Octopus Ventures. If one ranks all investors in the UK according to the number of investments made in the previous year, Seedcamp leads with 116 investments, followed by BGF (113), Entrepreneur First (111), HG Capital (108), and SFC Capital (103). Corporate Venture Capital One trend that is only slowly gaining momentum across Europe is for large companies to set up venture capital arms as part of their innovation strategy. The UK's most prominent example is Unilever Ventures. “What stands out is that some of the largest German corporations, including BMW, SAP, and Si...

We lovingly welcome Dr. Jeremey Qualls, Executive Director of CTE and the Entrepreneurship Center at Williamson County (TN) Schools into the GCP bosom. You'll laugh, you'll cry, your confidence in our youth will be elevated with powerful stories of disruption, defining moments of Jeremy's career, and leveling up the culture and long held beliefs in our education system. GOATs to include Wayne Qualls, Simon Cowell, and many more. We serve it up in a way you can get it!

We lovingly welcome Dr. Jeremey Qualls, Executive Director of CTE and the Entrepreneurship Center at Williamson County (TN) Schools into the GCP bosom. You'll laugh, you'll cry, your confidence in our youth will be elevated with powerful stories of disruption, defining moments of Jeremy's career, and leveling up the culture and long held beliefs in our education system. GOATs to include Wayne Qualls, Simon Cowell, and many more. We serve it up in a way you can get it!

We are thrilled to be back for Season 5 and couldn't think of anyone better to have in as our guest.  Steve Bryant is the Regional Director, South Central SBDC and Executive Director of the Ivy Tech Gayle and Bill Cook Center for Entrepreneurship whose years of experience has helped to bridge politics, venture capitalist, and start-up businesses through numerous channels and networks.   The advice Steve gives will certainly help any start-up company or those owners looking to grow.  He should know because he came to his current role in uncertain and stressful times all while being charged with a big mission: Grow an Entrepreneurship Center! Sbryant32@ivytech.edu https://www.ivytech.edu/bloomington/entrepreneurship/ Podcast Studio Sponsor Podcast Sponsor Episode 1-6 Sponsor

A good customer experience requires more than just making the sale. It's taking a look and analyzing every little detail that pushes them further and further down the funnel... If you design it the right way, the customer experience should be serving the customer first while giving you the conversions you desire. As an experienced marketer Jonathan Rowe, the CMO of nCino, a cloud banking solutions company, has welcomed the challenge of working in a highly regulated industry, servicing big banks.  “From a customer perspective, make sure that they're getting the most value from what they purchased from your product. That's being proactive and giving them that information. It's making sure you can add. We work with our institutions. I've had marketing conversations with CMOs of banks, just because they want to learn some of our best practices. [Think] how can your organization go above and beyond. And then help infuse your brand with your customers; make them help sell your product.”On this episode of Marketing Trends, Jonathan looks back at the exponential growth that he experienced at nCino. He looks back at his academic roots that he says laid the foundation for him that helped spur that growth. But behind the numbers and metrics, what separates nCino and its marketing department from its competitors is its company culture, and Jonathan and I dive into how he's built a culture, what pillars he leans on and how he thinks about hiring and recruiting talent. Learn more about the way he approaches team building, thought leadership, and good communication up next on Marketing Trends. Main TakeawaysTransitioning from Academia to Marketing: The skills that it takes to be a great academician are more transferable to a career in marketing than you might first think. When you look at marketing as ‘education' things begin to fall into place. Even if you're not in academics, looking at the craft of marketing from a slightly different perspective, instead of just focusing on converting customers, maybe a focus on educating them will actually drive more conversions.Looking Like a Billion-Dollar Brand: Even if you're at the very beginning of your business journey as a start-up, fake it till you make it! Presenting your brand like a top-dollar player from day one sets a tone of excellence for your team, your business, and your customers. Everything you do, every piece of communication, marketing materials, conversations, and attitude all should reflect the top-dollar attitude you want at your company.Use the Channels and Communication Styles your Customers Prefer: Maybe long emails don't perform well anymore by marketing industry standards, but maybe your customers, in your niche market, still like to receive and read longer messages in their inbox. Adapting your marketing channels and even messaging for your audience shows them that you're listening and will only enrich your interactions with them.Key Quotes“'I never expected an academic background to transfer to a startup and now high growth company. But marketing is really about educating, right? You're educating a lot of stakeholders, whether it's partners, whether it's potential clients, whether it's customers, whether it's investors, whether it's your employees. And so that to me was a very early realization that really it's about education.”“First and foremost, who are you selling to? Make sure you understand your target market. It sounds so simple, but when you understand who you're selling to, you can then ask yourself the next two or three questions, which is, ‘Where do those people go? What do they look at? What are their interests?' And that's even before you get to, ‘What is your message?'”“‘Everything we do represents a billion-dollar brand.' I literally put that on the wall because I think this is true of anybody, even if you're a small business. What do you aspire to be? How do you want your employees thinking about every day when they walk in or take a phone call or make a product or do a service delivery, how do you want them thinking about your business? One of the things you realize in marketing is you don't own the brand.  You're a steward of the brand. You may help set direction for the brand, but your employees own the brand, your customers own the brand. All your partners are invited like all these different people. In those early years, I wanted us to look and feel like a billion-dollar company.” “[Go] back to understanding your audience, what channels do they engage with? In a lot of industries, you may say, ‘I'm not going to write a document that's longer than two pages because nobody's going to read it.' That's true universally, but I think in banking, folks are still reading a good deal of information. They also like research; so for us, from a customer perspective [how can we] be a thought leader. It's really understanding our ability to not go to a bank and say, Hey, we know how to do things better than you, because obviously you never want to do that. But to go in, challenge and share research and share data, because now it's your point. Now that we've built up 1100 customers, we're learning a lot about the industry. And how do we share that back to the point about what we talked about with Salesforce, kind of creating these, this community of raving and nCino fans, where again, we entered an industry where a lot of the banks are competitors and they used to never talk to each other. And here we are, you know, almost 10 years later.” “From a customer perspective, one, make sure that they're getting the most value from what they purchased from your product. That's being proactive and giving them that information. It's making sure you can add. We actually work with our institutions. I've had marketing conversations with CMOs of banks, just because they want to learn some of our best practices. [Think] how can your organization go above and beyond. And then help infuse your brand with your customers; make them help sell your product.”BioJonathan Rowe serves as nCino's Chief Marketing Officer, helping fuel growth for the worldwide leader in cloud banking. Jonathan and the Marketing Team are responsible for the Company's global branding, public relations, conferences, creative design, digital, and product marketing functions. Jonathan also oversees nCino's Recruiting Team and all employer and culture branding initiatives. A year-one nCino employee, Jonathan has been instrumental in establishing the nCino brand and leading the Company's marketing functions globally.Prior to joining nCino, Jonathan was a professor in the Cameron School of Business and Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He holds a Bachelor of Science in International Marketing from UNC Wilmington, a Master of Business Administration from Babson College and a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management from the University of Auckland.---Marketing Trends podcast is brought to you by Salesforce. Discover marketing built on the world's number one CRM: Salesforce. Put your customer at the center of every interaction. Automate engagement with each customer. And build your marketing strategy around the entire customer journey. Salesforce. We bring marketing and engagement together. Learn more at salesforce.com/marketing.

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Sharon Goldsmith – Acting Executive Dean of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Hofstra University We talk about the following Entrepreneurship NYC Hofstra University Veterans Venture Challenge Being the head of HR and Finance at G-Unit Records Sharon's Bio Sharon Goldsmith, MBA is the Acting Executive Dean of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Hofstra University. She has twelve years of combined experience in the business management and entertainment industry and over five years in higher education. Sharon graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2003 with a degree in Public Relations and immediately joined LL Business Management, Inc. For almost three years, she was a business manager for recording artists, NBA players and other high net worth individuals. Her most famous client, 50 Cent, asked her to join G-Unit Records, Inc. in 2005 as the Director of Finance and later, the Director of Finance and Human Resources. During that time Sharon earned her M.A. in Speech Communication and Rhetoric Studies here at Hofstra University. Sharon spent over ten years contributing to the success of both multi-platinum music releases and supporting 50 Cent's entrepreneurship. She helped him to achieve success in the tech, non-profit, entertainment and consumer electronic space. Sharon joined Hofstra's Center for Entrepreneurship in 2016 and has completed the Lean Launchpad Educator's Program and earned a Masters in Business Administration. At Hofstra's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (formerly the Center for Entrepreneurship), Sharon provides students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community with skills and training necessary to become accomplished entrepreneurs through multiple programs and services. Sharon also advances the mission of the Scott Skodnek Business Development Center by designing and implementing a new curriculum for the Empire State Development funded Entrepreneurial Assistance Centers. Sharon was a panelist at the 2020 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship's 2019 Conference and presented at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center's 2019 Conference. Sharon is currently serving as an E-Advisory Council Member for The National Center for Disability Entrepreneurship (NCDE) at the Viscardi Center. Sharon's Social Media Sharon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsalamonegoldsmith/ Sharon's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharonien8/ Sharon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sharonien8 Hofstra University Veterans Venture Challenge: https://www.hofstra.edu/entrepreneurship/veterans-venture-challenge.html Sharon's Advice My new mantra is love everyone. Just be a decent person. Go out there today and be nice to somebody who doesn't have a smile on their face and try to just spread love.

Nosso convidado é Rodrigo Ferreira e falaremos sobre o Talento: Significância. Pós-graduado em MBA em Liderança e Coaching em Gestão de Pessoas, Consultor, Podcaster e Líder GGSC Brasil ajudando profissionais de todo o mundo a se tornarem suas melhores versões. Transformar vidas e gerar prosperidade através do conhecimento e do desenvolvimento de pontos fortes. Rodrigo Ferreira é Coach de Pontos Fortes certificado pela Gallup em Omaha, Estados Unidos e um dos 6 únicos brasileiros autorizados pela Gallup a formar novos coaches desta metodologia aqui no Brasil. Tem como principais talentos a Intelecção, a Significância, o Estudioso, o Input e o Relacionamento. Possui ainda uma certificação em professional coaching pelo WCC (World Coaching Council) e uma certificação de Strategic Mentoring pelo Creative Learning Institute Brazil. Pós-graduado em MBA em Liderança e Coaching na Gestão de Pessoas, cursando Pós-graduado em Psicologia, também cursou a Pós Graduação em Gestão Estratégica de Pessoas. Certificado no curso Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, pelo Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) e no Life Coaching Certification Programme (Beginner to Advanced) por Kain Ramsay. Possui artigos científicos publicados e premiados sobre Liderança e Franchising. Além de coach e treinador de coaches, Rodrigo é podcaster e trainer; e já foi consultor, gestor na maior universidade de sua cidade e de um projeto social de grande repercussão regional, empreendedor, professor de MBA, graduação e cursos livres, colunista do maior jornal de sua cidade e comentarista da Radio Jovem Pan (FM 96,9 MHz). Nos mais de 25 anos de experiência em vendas, 20 anos como gestor e empreendedor, 23 anos ensinando, 10 anos treinando multinacionais e 5 anos como mentor e coach, Rodrigo já ajudou mais de 15.000 pessoas a terem sucesso, tendo 98% de aprovação em seus projetos, com altíssimo índice de recompra, resultados excelentes em todos os processos de coaching gerando sempre aumento de vendas e de resultados em todas as empresas treinadas e sendo reconhecido pela didática e paixão com as quais ensina. Atualmente é Coach para Vendedores, Gestores e Microempresários ajudando profissionais a tornarem-se suas melhores versões, host do podcast Talentos para o Sucesso, voluntário no movimento Talentos Unidos, Coach e Consultor associado à empresas como a Ynner Developing People, o Ibmec, o Senac, o IDC do Brasil e a Magallon Desenvolvimento Humano; ajudando empresas como Adama, Amil, Anhanguera, AOC, Arcor, Bayer, Bosch, BP, ChilliBeans, Eaton, Edenred, Emerson, EMS, Fastshop, Grupo Fleury, Mary Kay, Medley, Nestlé, Pão de Açúcar, Saint Gobain, Totvs, entre dezenas de outras. Top 5 do Rodrigo: Intelecção, Significância, Estudioso, Input, Relacionamento English : Our guest is Rodrigo Ferreira and we'll talk about the Talent: Significance. Postgraduate in MBA in Leadership and Coaching in People Management, Consultant, Podcaster and Leader GGSC Brasil helping professionals from all over the world to become their best versions. Rodrigo is CliftonStrenghts' coach, certified at Gallup, in Omaha, USA. Coaching certification by EHumanas Institute and IDC Brazil. Strategic Mentoring certified by Creative Learning Institute, with lots of hours of mentoring and coaching practice. Postgraduate professor, majored in Business Administration from UniFEOB, he earned an MBA in Leadership and Coaching from Unopar, a Postgraduate in Psychology and coursed a post graduation in People Management in UniSEB/UniCOC. He is majored in Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, by Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) from University of Maryland and in Life Coaching Certification Program (Beginner to Advanced) by Kain Ramsay (online programs). He led the Development and Innovation Department and the Entrepreneurship Center from UniFEOB, wrote to a newspaper and participated in radio programs talking about business subjects, and has awarded scientific papers in Leadership and Franchising subjects. Over experienced professional in communication, sales and management, acquired as manager, entrepreneur and business consultant. Nowadays he is dedicated to developing people throughout their strengths with coaching and trainings individually, where he had lots of cases with great results, and at big companies as Nestlé, Basf, AOC, Totvs, Mary Kay, FMC, Bayer, Mann+Hummel, Eaton, Medley Sanofi, Hunter Douglas, and others. He can help you to be more successful mainly if you work - direct or indirect - in sales or customer service roles, if you are a small business owner, or if you are in any other role and are struggling to achieve your goals. Rodrigo´s Top 5 CliftonStrengths: Intellection, Significance, Learner, Input and Relator Yuri Trafane formou-se em Gestão de Marketing pela ESPM após ter cursado Química na UNICAMP. Possui dois MBAs, um pela USP e outro pela FGV, seguido de um pós-MBA pela FIA, uma certificação em coaching pela ATD USA e uma especialização em Strength Based Coaching pela Gallup USA. Com sólida formação acadêmica, construiu sua experiência profissional como executivo em empresas renomadas, como Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Parmalat, Bauducco e Grupo Abril.Atualmente dirige a Ynner Treinamentos, empresa de treinamento e consultoria especializada em Gestão, Estratégia, Vendas e Marketing, onde teve o privilégio de formar executivos de empresas de destaque como Bayer, Nestlé, Bosch, Nívea, Walmart, 3M, Eaton , Emerson, Mercedes-Benz, FMC, Mary Kay, Sanofi, Saint Gobain e várias outras. Ynner é a representante oficial da Gallup no Brasil. Yuri's Top 5 CliftonStrengths: Input (Input), Estudioso (Learner), Ativação (Activator), Significância (Significance), Relacionamento (Relator) Learn more about Gallup's other resources for strengths-based coaching: • Articles & Videos • Webcasts • Guides & Reports • Subscribe to our Newsletter To learn about Gallup's other resources for strengths-based coaching, visit Gallup Access. Called to Coach is a Gallup Webcast (via YouTube) that allows current and prospective coaches to interact with strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.

Nosso convidado é Rodrigo Ferreira e falaremos sobre o Talento: Significância. Pós-graduado em MBA em Liderança e Coaching em Gestão de Pessoas, Consultor, Podcaster e Líder GGSC Brasil ajudando profissionais de todo o mundo a se tornarem suas melhores versões. Transformar vidas e gerar prosperidade através do conhecimento e do desenvolvimento de pontos fortes. Rodrigo Ferreira é Coach de Pontos Fortes certificado pela Gallup em Omaha, Estados Unidos e um dos 6 únicos brasileiros autorizados pela Gallup a formar novos coaches desta metodologia aqui no Brasil. Tem como principais talentos a Intelecção, a Significância, o Estudioso, o Input e o Relacionamento. Possui ainda uma certificação em professional coaching pelo WCC (World Coaching Council) e uma certificação de Strategic Mentoring pelo Creative Learning Institute Brazil. Pós-graduado em MBA em Liderança e Coaching na Gestão de Pessoas, cursando Pós-graduado em Psicologia, também cursou a Pós Graduação em Gestão Estratégica de Pessoas. Certificado no curso Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, pelo Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) e no Life Coaching Certification Programme (Beginner to Advanced) por Kain Ramsay. Possui artigos científicos publicados e premiados sobre Liderança e Franchising. Além de coach e treinador de coaches, Rodrigo é podcaster e trainer; e já foi consultor, gestor na maior universidade de sua cidade e de um projeto social de grande repercussão regional, empreendedor, professor de MBA, graduação e cursos livres, colunista do maior jornal de sua cidade e comentarista da Radio Jovem Pan (FM 96,9 MHz). Nos mais de 25 anos de experiência em vendas, 20 anos como gestor e empreendedor, 23 anos ensinando, 10 anos treinando multinacionais e 5 anos como mentor e coach, Rodrigo já ajudou mais de 15.000 pessoas a terem sucesso, tendo 98% de aprovação em seus projetos, com altíssimo índice de recompra, resultados excelentes em todos os processos de coaching gerando sempre aumento de vendas e de resultados em todas as empresas treinadas e sendo reconhecido pela didática e paixão com as quais ensina. Atualmente é Coach para Vendedores, Gestores e Microempresários ajudando profissionais a tornarem-se suas melhores versões, host do podcast Talentos para o Sucesso, voluntário no movimento Talentos Unidos, Coach e Consultor associado à empresas como a Ynner Developing People, o Ibmec, o Senac, o IDC do Brasil e a Magallon Desenvolvimento Humano; ajudando empresas como Adama, Amil, Anhanguera, AOC, Arcor, Bayer, Bosch, BP, ChilliBeans, Eaton, Edenred, Emerson, EMS, Fastshop, Grupo Fleury, Mary Kay, Medley, Nestlé, Pão de Açúcar, Saint Gobain, Totvs, entre dezenas de outras. Top 5 do Rodrigo: Intelecção, Significância, Estudioso, Input, Relacionamento English : Our guest is Rodrigo Ferreira and we'll talk about the Talent: Significance. Postgraduate in MBA in Leadership and Coaching in People Management, Consultant, Podcaster and Leader GGSC Brasil helping professionals from all over the world to become their best versions. Rodrigo is CliftonStrenghts' coach, certified at Gallup, in Omaha, USA. Coaching certification by EHumanas Institute and IDC Brazil. Strategic Mentoring certified by Creative Learning Institute, with lots of hours of mentoring and coaching practice. Postgraduate professor, majored in Business Administration from UniFEOB, he earned an MBA in Leadership and Coaching from Unopar, a Postgraduate in Psychology and coursed a post graduation in People Management in UniSEB/UniCOC. He is majored in Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, by Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) from University of Maryland and in Life Coaching Certification Program (Beginner to Advanced) by Kain Ramsay (online programs). He led the Development and Innovation Department and the Entrepreneurship Center from UniFEOB, wrote to a newspaper and participated in radio programs talking about business subjects, and has awarded scientific papers in Leadership and Franchising subjects. Over experienced professional in communication, sales and management, acquired as manager, entrepreneur and business consultant. Nowadays he is dedicated to developing people throughout their strengths with coaching and trainings individually, where he had lots of cases with great results, and at big companies as Nestlé, Basf, AOC, Totvs, Mary Kay, FMC, Bayer, Mann+Hummel, Eaton, Medley Sanofi, Hunter Douglas, and others. He can help you to be more successful mainly if you work - direct or indirect - in sales or customer service roles, if you are a small business owner, or if you are in any other role and are struggling to achieve your goals. Rodrigo´s Top 5 CliftonStrengths: Intellection, Significance, Learner, Input and Relator Yuri Trafane formou-se em Gestão de Marketing pela ESPM após ter cursado Química na UNICAMP. Possui dois MBAs, um pela USP e outro pela FGV, seguido de um pós-MBA pela FIA, uma certificação em coaching pela ATD USA e uma especialização em Strength Based Coaching pela Gallup USA. Com sólida formação acadêmica, construiu sua experiência profissional como executivo em empresas renomadas, como Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Parmalat, Bauducco e Grupo Abril.Atualmente dirige a Ynner Treinamentos, empresa de treinamento e consultoria especializada em Gestão, Estratégia, Vendas e Marketing, onde teve o privilégio de formar executivos de empresas de destaque como Bayer, Nestlé, Bosch, Nívea, Walmart, 3M, Eaton , Emerson, Mercedes-Benz, FMC, Mary Kay, Sanofi, Saint Gobain e várias outras. Ynner é a representante oficial da Gallup no Brasil. Yuri's Top 5 CliftonStrengths: Input (Input), Estudioso (Learner), Ativação (Activator), Significância (Significance), Relacionamento (Relator) Learn more about Gallup's other resources for strengths-based coaching: • Articles & Videos • Webcasts • Guides & Reports • Subscribe to our Newsletter To learn about Gallup's other resources for strengths-based coaching, visit Gallup Access. Called to Coach is a Gallup Webcast (via YouTube) that allows current and prospective coaches to interact with strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.

About Brian Hazelgren and RX2Live: We have built an amazing team of personnel, franchisees, and vendor partners that have helped us achieve huge success including being named to the Top 50 Companies in Healthcare, and the Top 100 Game Changers in Franchising. Relentlessly driven and armed with a healthy dose of humor and fun, I also like to move fast and produce insanely impressive results. My biggest passion is providing unprecedented quality - while pushing the limits of creativity and innovation - and have a little fun along the way! I have written 17 books - including the #1 books on business planning and entrepreneurship. I have trained over 85,000 business executives, and helped design and implement the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Utah, where I was also an Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship from 2001-2011. During my career I have managed to raise over $1.3 billion in charitable funds for healthcare. I have also written many successful business plans to launch new ventures. As a leader I believe we need to be able to call audibles, and constantly take on new challenges and deliver outstanding results. I believe that leaders should possess a winning, positive attitude; know their followers and enjoy helping them grow. Successful leaders have a vision...share it with others, and empower them to find their own success. I also believe that successful leaders are never happy with the status quo, and are constantly looking for new adventures, and should be confident in their ability to lead! I love to create and implement content to aid in achieving Revenue goals. I am very committed to training and mentoring. I believe that you need to work hard at your job - while have fun doing it with the people you work with, and achieve your career and financial goals! Why RX2Live? Independent physician practices have seen a 40% reduction in profits in the past five years. 83,000 eldercare facilities cannot support the demand for the next 23 years. Only 54% of people in North America have access to workplace wellness. RX2Live is the first model to offer easy on-boarding solutions for physicians, eldercare providers, and corporations. Company Mission RX2Live is a healthcare and wellness services Company. The Company's mission is to positively affect better health for patients and employees, and to assist medical practices and elder care facilities to thrive and realize additional growth. We also have a passion to assist businesses in controlling their health care costs while also increasing productivity. Through an innovative compilation of products and services - we are able to accomplish these outcomes - all related to providing better health and wellness options.

Christina Holloway has been recognized as the #1 Executive Coach in Chicago by Influence Digest and has been named one of the top mentor coaches at 1871, Chicago's leading Technology and Entrepreneurship Center. As a consultant, coach and speaker, Christina focuses on sharing her career advancement framework, which helps her clients build careers that align with their biggest dreams. She is a frequent contributor to Forbes Magazine, and she coaches and consults for a diverse range of clients including Accenture, PwC, Google, McDonald's, UPS and Spotify. Christina has spoken on leadership development topics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Yale University's Women in Management Forum. Learn more about Christina Holloway at ChristinaHolloway.com and be sure to follow her on Instagram and YouTube.

Neste episódio do Podcast CRUZAMENTO, Daniel Guedelha e André Correia conversam com Stephan Morais sobre a importância do investimento nas áreas da saúde e tecnologia, do potencial de Portugal e ainda de outras áreas com potencial de crescimento futuro. Stephan Morais is the founder and Managing General Partner of Indico Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm based Portugal. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Pre-Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico were previously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs. Stephan was formerly an Executive Board Member at Caixa Capital, the Private Equity and Venture Capital fund management company, where he led the most relevant international investment rounds of Portuguese technology companies. He has been a Non-Executive Director and Independent Board Advisor in numerous companies. With a diversified background as an investment banker, consultant, entrepreneur and CEO, he has lived in 8 countries and 4 continents over the last 24 years. He is also a former Advisor to the European Commissioner of Science and Innovation, Past Chairman of the European Venture Finance Network and Past Board Member of the European Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and Board Member of the International Venture Club. He is an Entrepreneurship Expert with the Entrepreneurship Center at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, an Advisory Board Member at AMROP, Executive Search and Board Member of the Portuguese Private Equity Association (APCRI). Appointed as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010, and Member of their Digital Leaders of Europe Community, he holds a degree in Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon), and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French. He is a YPO (Young Presidents Organization) Member. Outras referências feitas no episódio: Indico Capital Partners Contactos: CruzamentoPodcast.comcruzamentopodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @cruzamentofmFacebook: @podcastcruzamento

Our guest today is Ian Grant, Executive Director of the Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center at UNH located in Durham, New Hampshire, better known as the ECenter. The ECenter is open to all students and their goal is to help foster the next generation of leaders with an entrepreneurial mind-set. The ECenter delivers unique, hands-on, experiential programming that inspires, nurtures, and mentors students from any major, at every step in the process — from idea growth and development to the fundamentals of company creation.

Episode Summary: In this episode Dr Sharon Tal and I discuss how the book she co-authored with Prof Marc Gruber, ‘Where to Play' complements the Lean Start Up movement and Design Thinking. She also explains how the Market Opportunity Navigator could benefit large organisations as well as start-ups.   Bio: Dr. Tal helps entrepreneurs and managers identify, evaluate and prioritize market opportunities for their business. Together with Prof Marc Gruber she wrote the book ‘Where to Play' to help companies choose a promising strategic focus and move forward with confidence. Dr. Tal is the co-founder and former Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. She runs courses and workshops in accelerators and universities around the world, and serves as a mentor in many organizations that aim to help budding entrepreneurs. Sharon has vast experience in marketing, as she served as a marketing manager for firms in several industries, as well as extensive experience in strategic consulting. Her PhD research looked at market entry decisions of hundreds of startups and its consequences on firm performance and flexibility. Website/ social media: Where to Play website: https://wheretoplay.co/ Sharon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-tal-itzkovitch-a390414a/ Where to Play LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wheretoplay/ Twitter: @WhereToPlayCo   Books mentioned in this episode: [NOTE: We currently bear all costs for organising, producing and hosting the podcast series. To help us offset costs, would you consider purchasing the mentioned books via our Amazon affiliate links below? Doing this could give us a commission from Amazon at no extra cost to you. Thank you!] Where to Play: 3 Steps to Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities by Marc Gruber and Sharon Tal End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business by Rita Gunther McGrath Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen by Rita Gunther McGrath The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Develop Successful Innovation Ecosystems by Tendai Viki, Dan Toma & Esther Gons Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win by Steve Blank The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur Building a Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller   Articles: Steve Blank's Blog on Where to Play https://steveblank.com/2019/05/07/how-to-stop-playing-target-market-roulette-a-new-addition-to-the-lean-toolset/ Steve Blank's 2nd blog on Where to Play: https://steveblank.com/2020/06/23/winners-rising-out-of-the-crisis-where-to-find-new-markets-and-customers/   Interview Transcript: Ula Ojiaku:  01:16 So, we have with us today, Sharon Ta1, who is the co-author of the book Where to Play. Sharon, thank you so much for making the time to be our guest on this podcast. Sharon Tal:  01:28 My pleasure - hi, Ula! Ula Ojiaku:  01:30 Hi! So, let's start! I did a bit of research, you know, just to find out a bit more about you before this conversation and I Googled (the name) Sharon Tal - it seems like it's a very popular name for famous people. So, I saw an actress who is famous and a notable TV producer who used to be with Amazon… What do you think about that? Sharon Tal:  01:53 Actually, that's a unique question Ula - original one. So it's true - Sharon is a very popular Israeli name. I come from Israel, and it's a very popular Israel name, especially for women around my age. The meaning of Sharon is actually a geographical area in Israel. And I've never been the only Sharon in class, university, work, wherever. And of course, there are many others with even the same surname. So, I'm used to some of these confusions by now. Ula Ojiaku:  02:26 Okay, I love the name. And I remember seeing the reference to it for the first time in the Bible, you know - the Rose of Sharon. It has a significant meaning to me as well. Sharon Tal: 02:36 Thank you. Ula Ojiaku:  02:38 You are a very accomplished person, having written the book, the significant work you did with your PhD that culminated in the co-authoring of the book, Where to Play with Professor Marc Gruber. And yet in my limited interaction with you, you come across as a very personable, down to earth person, very easy to communicate with.  Can you tell us a bit about your journey so far? How did you get to where you are currently? Sharon Tal:  03:05 Well, first of all, thank you for the warm words. And always nice to hear that other think you are well-accomplished. I started my journey as a Marketing Manager. But at some point, I wanted to go back to study masters thesis in Strategic Management. And I went back to where I did my first degree, which is the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and I kind of fell in love with the academic field and a great place to stay, especially when you have kids at home. So, after I finished my masters thesis,  I stayed in the university and I co-founded the Entrepreneurship Center there. So, then I was managing the Entrepreneurship Center at the Technion and that's where I got to learn so much about the entrepreneurial journey and meet and consult with hundreds of early-stage startups and entrepreneurs - especially technology entrepreneurs. And during that time, I noticed that there is a challenge that is very common to many of them and that was figuring out which market to pursue with their innovative idea. And given that I was coming from a marketing background, I wanted to help them find a structure for this decision, and we couldn't find a good tool. So eventually, I decided to do my PhD on this topic. And we looked at hundreds of early stage startups and how they managed this trade off, this question of where to focus, and how to focus properly. I'm telling you all this because it's just a step-by-step process in my career that at the end led me to have this deep know-how and expertise in figuring out how to focus properly for and find the best market. So, given all this academic and practical understanding, at the end, we decided to write this book and develop this methodology, the market opportunity navigator to bring this know-how, which is (the) theoretical and practical, together to the practitioners. At the end, that's my career story and today, I work mainly when training this methodology, either in academic institutes or early stage entrepreneurs' programs, for budding entrepreneurs, and also larger organizations and innovation managers. Ula Ojiaku:  05:25 Okay, so that means you are open to like consulting with either budding entrepreneurs or large or small organizations. Sharon Tal:  05:34 Correct. Only thing I want to refine here is it's not exactly consulting. As far as I said, it's more of a facilitation, so I facilitate the process with them. The difference is, as a consultant -  and I used to work as a consultant in the past - you don't only ask the questions, you also bring the answers. When you facilitate a process, you help the team ask the right questions, but they bring the answers to the table, and then you'll help them digest and make the right decisions out of that. So, that's what I mainly do today I think, facilitation rather than consulting. Ula Ojiaku:  06:13 I like the way you've differentiated the term, ‘consultants' and you've emphasized that you're more of a facilitator. That gives me the impression that it's more about you drawing out the information or the answers that they already know that's within them - because they know their context better than you ever could - having been there. But you are helping them to draw out the answers and helping them to use the tool adequately in their context. Sharon Tal:  06:41 Correct. Ula Ojiaku:  06:42 Ok, thanks for the clarification Sharon. What would you consider as the main challenge you've experienced in your career or personally? Sharon Tal:  06:51 Yeah. Okay. So, let me divide this into two. So professionally and personally. From a professional perspective, I think the most challenging part was to bridge the gap between academia and the practical world. In a way, I was blessed to have prior experience in both. And when we started to write the book, we also thought it's going to be quite easy to find a way to bridge this gap. But it took us much longer than we expected, because it's very challenging to find the middle ground between being thorough enough and simple enough. And that's the challenge of combining theories, and bringing them to - in a very simple, appealing way - to practitioners. So, from a professional perspective, I think that's the main challenge. From personal perspective. But that's not only me, I'm sure that many women in general, I think the main challenge always has been to balance life and career, especially having three kids at home and finding the way to be both a good professional and a good mother and wife. So that's always the thing for me. And almost every decision that I've made in my career was somehow made having this challenge in mind. Ula Ojiaku:  08:15 I totally empathize. I mean, you're a little bit ahead of me, because I have a nine-year-old and a seven-year-old and… Sharon Tal: 08:23 They will grow. Ula Ojiaku:  08:25 They will and they are, I mean, things are much better than when they were in diapers, certainly. But I've found myself having to make decisions professionally, that take into consideration how it's going to affect them, especially at their age. Yes, so I've made sacrifices and compromises and I'll do it all over again. Sharon Tal:  08:48 So, would I. So, would I, so I am proud of my sacrifices. I think they were right. So, I would do it all over again. Ula Ojiaku:  08:56 They're not always young, like you said, and that gives me hope - they'll grow up and give us freer times. Now moving on to… so moving on to your book, Where to Play. I've already had a very good chat with your co-author, Professor Marc Gruber. And he gave us an overview of the work you'd done and what the market opportunity navigator is all about. For the audience members who are yet to listen to this and just as a recap, can you give us a recap of what this is (about) please? Sharon Tal:  09:26 Sure, so the book Where to Play presents a structured methodology or framework if you want that is called the market opportunity navigator. This process helps entrepreneurs and business managers to find or discover the best market opportunities for their innovation. Think about any almost any technological innovation or idea that you have or even existing business line of company, they can always apply it to create different offerings or address the needs of different types of customers. So, the process helps you with three steps. First, it's about identifying; discovering different market opportunities for this innovation. What type of applications, I can stem from your core abilities, and who may need it - in any combination of application and customer is a market opportunity for your company? The second step is the evaluation step. So, you need to be able to comprehensively assess the attractiveness of these different directions, or different opportunities, either if you're an early stage startup, or if you're looking for the growth engines for your venture for your company. So, the second step helps you to systematically evaluate the potential and the challenge of every market opportunity on your plate and compare them visually. And the third step is about prioritizing. How do you compile all this information that I'm learning to set a smart to design a smart strategy for your company, a strategy that can utilize this multiple market opportunities in your favour? So, if you are an early stage startup, you can utilize these multiple opportunities to set your backup and growth options and keep them open for the future. If you're a large organization, you can utilize these multiple opportunities, to design a portfolio of growth options - those that are a little bit more related and more far out from your existing business line - to create this balanced portfolio of growth or growing options. Just to summarize this three-step process, and very structured because every step has a dedicated worksheet to help you go through this decision making. So, it's very easy, in a way very easy to apply either as a sole manager, but also in a team. Probably one of the main benefits is that it creates a shared language or communication tool. You can now walk through this strategic design or strategic process in a very systematic way, involving different people, or employees or stakeholders. Ula Ojiaku:  12:09 Thanks a lot. That's a very good overview. Just tying to that, because you said it could be used by you know, both individuals and small and large enterprises. So, for large organizations, how could the market opportunity navigator benefit large organizations? Sharon Tal:  12:37 Yeah, it's interesting, because, you know, when we started developing this tool, we had startups in mind, and it was actually based on our deep, you know, research for how early stage startups make decisions. But very quickly, we figured out that large organizations also need a structured process to identify their next growth opportunities. And some of them, of course, already apply some processes, but they are not always  comprehensive and some of them are just doing this messy decision-making process with no systematic practices. And that creates a little bit too much emphasis on luck rather than systems. Ula Ojiaku:  13:09 And sometimes, it's really about the most senior person who is just, you know, pushing it (their agenda) or the loudest, right? Sharon Tal:  13:16 Correct. Definitely, right. Definitely, right. So, so I think the very first thing to keep in mind is if you have a structured tool that can involve different types of employees and managers and manager levels. In this process, it's very valuable. Now, the thing that we've found most beneficial for larger corporates when they use the market opportunity navigator is actually the identification phase. So, let me explain why. Many times, managers are bounded within their existing industry lines. And today, we know from different books and different studies, including a very good one by Rita McGrath that industry lines are quickly blurring, and competitive advantage is very temporary. And therefore, organizations need to find and identify opportunities, not necessarily within their existing industries. So, they actually need to learn how to break out from existing industries and think wider. And that's a challenging process. So, the first step of the Market Opportunity Navigator helps you to first characterize your core strengths or core abilities in their own right. And then think how you can combine or recombine them in different ways to create completely different offerings, for completely different market segments or market opportunities. That really helps you to think outside your limited industrial boundaries. And what we see happening many times is, these structured brainstorming sessions are very powerful. You can use them to analyze your core strength and think what else you can do with it. It's like an exercise in cognitive flexibility. But you can also use this to ask yourself, okay, now that I've listed this core strength, what if I had a new one? What if I developed another core element in here? For example, blockchain abilities, whatever, okay, and how would that open up different opportunities for my company? So, it's a semi-structured discovery process, which is very powerful to help companies discover their opportunity arena. So, an arena is a concept again coined by Rita McGrath that said, don't forget your industries, think about your larger opportunity spaces or arenas, and that discovery process is very valuable in this manner for this specific issue. Now, also, I think, larger organizations are looking for ways to bring in entrepreneurial mindsets and entrepreneurial imagination. So, using these tools which were originally tailored for startups and bring(ing) them into their meeting rooms is actually very nice. You can put this thing (the Market Opportunity Navigator template) on a wall, you can use sticky notes, you can run these brainstorming sessions. It's fun, it's enjoyable, it's engaging. And I think large corporates could definitely find the benefit in this approach as well. Now, another thing to keep in mind probably is that once you discover opportunities with this first step of the Navigator, the second one helps you to quickly distinguish or characterize them based on the potential that they bear for your company and the challenge in pursuing them. So, you can very quickly or you can characterize or distinguish between these ideas, and find your goldmine opportunities - those that are higher on potential and relatively low or manageable on challenge. You can also use this to find your quick wins, which are maybe modest on potential but relatively safe. And actually, quick wins have a good benefit in larger organizations because they help make the change. If you start your process with applying some or pursuing some quick wins, you get the buy in of stakeholders' entire management more easily. And you're on your way to a larger change in the future - for your moonshot's opportunities, for example, in the future. So, I think that's maybe another benefit to keep in mind. Ula Ojiaku:  17:48 So, Sharon, can you define what you mean by a moonshot? I mean, goldmine sounds like it's something that would be potentially highly profitable, with medium to minimal effort on the part of the organization. And there is the quick win, you know, the low hanging fruit, which is easy-to-get medium-sized opportunities, but it's easier to implement and get but what would be a moonshot? Sharon Tal:  18:12 So, you're definitely right with your interpretation. The moonshot opportunities are those with a high potential, but also extremely high challenge. Now many breakthrough innovations or if you think about large corporates, breaking beyond their existing business lines, beyond their existing customer segments is challenging, but you want to have those in your portfolio as well. Right? So, that's when we talk about the attractiveness of different opportunities. We categorize them based on these two dimensions: potential and challenge. And moonshot is one of these quadrants, you know, matrix. Ula Ojiaku:  18:47 Okay, you mentioned Rita McGrath's book, were you referring to The Competitive Advantage? Or is there any other book…? Sharon Tal:  18:54 Yeah, so she has actually two books that relates to this topic. One is The End of Competitive Advantage, exactly the one you mentioned, where she talks about the fact that competitive advantage is very temporary these days, and companies must be able to explore new opportunities all the time, and move quickly, or reconfigure their assets quickly to move from one opportunity to the other. And the Market Opportunity Navigator helps you to do just that. How do you leverage your existing abilities and core strengths to completely new opportunities? The other book that was recently published is Seeing Around Corners, where she provides some more guidelines on how to identify when disruption is coming into your industry, and then you need to quickly figure out what to do with that. Ula Ojiaku:  19:52 Okay, okay. That's great. You've beautifully explained why the Market Opportunity Navigator would be beneficial to large organizations as well, even though it was originally put together, synthesized for startups, for entrepreneurs. How does the Market Opportunity Navigator complement the Lean Startup cycle? Sharon Tal:  20:14 Yeah, yes, that's actually a great question. Because when we designed it, we didn't want to (re-)invent, you know, the wheel. We wanted to join the Lean Startup movement. But we felt that the tools of the Lean Startup customer development process, the Business Model Canvas, the Agile development - all of these tools are very good to quickly find your product-market fit within a market domain, or pivot quickly if you find out it's the wrong one. But what they don't tell you is where to actually start digging in, where to actually start your customer development process. And that's where the Market Opportunity Navigator comes in, and there was recently a blog published by Steve Blank, the father of Lean Startup, where he actually talks about the key addition of the Market Opportunity Navigator into the Lean Toolset. The idea is that the Market Opportunity Navigator helps you to figure out where to play, find out this market domains where you can dig in or you can have some businesses. And then the Lean Toolset helps you to zoom in and figure out how to play. And you can very quickly experiment and refine and figure out your business model within the market domain. So, it's the wide lens perspective to help you define the boundaries for your lean experimentation. Now, one thing to keep in mind that at the end of the day, this is a very iterative process, right? You zoom in and zoom out, you can do this wide lens analysis, figure out the domain, zoom in with the lean experimentation, use these great Lean Startup tools, learn and go up and reflect again, on what you've learned with this wider reflection tool, which is the market opportunity navigator. So, definitely complements these great tools in the title, interestingly, the title that Steve Blank gave to this post is ‘Stop Playing Target Market Roulette', so use this systematic process to define the boundaries of your lean experimentation. Ula Ojiaku:  22:26 Steve Blank actually mentioned your book as well, when I interviewed him, he had high praises for it in terms of how it helped with structuring…at least giving startups a targeted view of where to focus on. I also get the sense that the Navigator ties in quite well with Design Thinking, because it's not about being haphazard. It's really about adding some rigor and structure to how you determine where you play. So, can you tell me a bit more about how the Navigator complements Design Thinking? Sharon Tal:  23:01 Sure. So, first Design Thinking has very, some very, you know, common elements with the Lean Startup, especially when we talk about prototyping and experimenting, validating an idea early on in the market. The key issue for me in Design Thinking is the first steps of customer empathy. So, identifying new opportunities, by putting yourself in the shoes of different customer segments. Now, I think this is actually a great methodology to discover new opportunities for your company. And the reason it complements the market opportunity navigator is because the navigators actually don't start with empathy with customer, it starts with what are your core strengths or abilities, and how can you leverage them to create different or to address the needs of different types of customers. So, at the end of the day, to have a good opportunity, it has to have these two ends, it has to have a clear need from the market. But also, you should be able to address these needs with your core strengths and abilities. So, the discovery process can begin with putting yourselves in the shoes of different types of customer like Design Thinking. But it could also begin with figuring out what's your core abilities or technological elements, and how you can reconfigure them differently. At the end, you will need to tie both ends anyway together to have an opportunity. My main way of looking at this is that they are different perspectives for identifying new market opportunities for the company and both are excellent. And then you create this multiple set of opportunities and you move forward to evaluating and prioritizing them. Ula Ojiaku:  24:52 It gives me the impression that you could start using the Design Thinking and putting yourself in the customers shoes, but you could start from evaluating your strengths, and also understanding what the customer needs. And then finding that, you know, that happy place where what you have, can adequately meet customer's needs or demands. Sharon Tal:  25:12 Exactly. And now, this is a process that it's a discovery process, and it takes time to find and the great thing is, by having multiple opportunities or a large set of opportunities is a real asset for your company. Because at the end, it will help you to find those most promising fertile grounds. So, you can definitely use both methodologies to bring in as many ideas as possible and then start validating them, be able to make sure that you have some good options on your table. Ula Ojiaku:  25:48 So how would you balance this though, because you could go on analyzing, how do you prevent yourself from going into analysis paralysis versus acting and knowing when you've done enough? Sharon Tal:  25:56 Yeah, good, good question. Okay, so I think the first thing I would say I would recommend is, again, is to have a structured process - adopt a structured process. Understand, how do you plan to actually bring the data or the evidence in to make a choice, but you also need to understand that even if you have a systematic process, it doesn't give you a crystal ball to know the future. So, you also need to learn to live with uncertainty because the business world is unpredictable. Innovation is unpredictable. So, my suggestion would be, use a systematic evaluation process, clearly define your criteria and in line with the Lean Startup, start with your assumptions and prepare a clear action plan how you're going to bring evidence to support these assumptions. And at some point, just compile all the data that you have, and make a decision. And one thing that we have learned is that, it's often difficult to compiled all the data that you have to have to create a clear pattern out of this. So, you send your employees, you send your teams to gather information, to talk with potential customers, to do market research on the competitors on different landscapes of opportunities. But how do you then compile all these bits and bytes of information into one clear image or pattern? That's I think, one of the challenges where the market opportunity navigator comes in handy, because it helps you to first be very systematic about the consideration, the criteria, and also consolidate these different factors into one simple image that we call the Attractiveness Map. Ula Ojiaku:  27:53 It kind of brings to mind Alex Osterwalder book on Value Proposition Design and Testing Business Ideas So, there are concepts that I believe that could also help with a structured approach to processing the data collected to help with decision making. What's your view on that? Sharon Tal:  28:11 Oh, yeah, you're definitely right. Again, I think different tools help you to do different jobs. And the tools like the tools by Osterwalder and Pigneur, and his new book on how to test your ideas. They're all really great resources to help you validate these opportunities, make sure you have a scalable, repeatable business in there. And that's why I said it's a ‘zoom in and zoom out' type of process. And in the book, we actually also describe how these tools go together in a very complementing manner, especially because they not only help you to zoom in, but also to validate your initial potential and challenges. Ula Ojiaku:  28:58 So, let's move to the next part of this conversation. So, what books would you recommend to someone who wants to learn more about the topics we've discussed? Where to Play is the key one, but what other books would you recommend? Sharon Tal:  29:13 Yeah, okay. So, first of all, it's the trivial ones, those that are, you know, the, on the top of the list of the lean processes like the initial book by Steve Blank, and the books by Osterwalder and Pigneur, which described the Business Model/ Value Proposition Canvases, and of course, Eric Ries lean startup, these are the basic ones for the lean processes. I think it's challenging a bit to bring this startup methodologies into larger corporate settings. So, one book that I find that does it quite nicely is The Corporate Startup, by Tendai Viki and Dan Thomas. And they, they translate this process that comes from small organizations into processes, which are adequate for larger corporates and I think that's quite an interesting read. On a different perspective, I recently read a book called Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller, which talks about how to clearly phrase and define your messages within a specific market. So, I think, once you have done this search, validated it and decide to focus on pursuing a specific market opportunity, this is a very valuable next step read, because it really gives you a good perspective on how to simply explain your message and convey your message. Ula Ojiaku:  30:55 Well, thanks, Sharon. If any member of the audience wants to contact you, how can they reach you? Are you on social media? Do you have a website? Sharon Tal:  31:02 Yeah, sure. So, the natural first pass is our website. It's www.wheretoplay.co and then we have all the information about the Market Opportunity Navigator. You can download the worksheets and the Navigator for free. You can read all these posts and articles and examples and case studies and also about the book. So, there's a lot of information and resources out there. Actually, we also have free slide sets and materials for mentors, for consultants, for managers that want to run brainstorming sessions around this. So, there's a lot of materials out there and it's almost all for free except for the book of course. And then you can find me on LinkedIn, both my personal account, and its under Sharon Tal Itzkovitch and Where to Play, we also have a where to play account on LinkedIn. And I'm also active on Twitter under Where to Play, so you can find me on wheretoplay on Twitter. Ula Ojiaku:  32:05 Okay, I'll add all these links to the show notes. So, thanks a lot, Sharon. So, any final advice to the audience? Based on what we've discussed so far for someone or an organization starting off in their lean innovation journey? What would be your advice? Sharon Tal:  32:28 Oh, wow! Maybe the one key thing to keep in mind is that it's a continuous work. It's a continuous process, innovation and exploration never ends actually, for and doesn't matter if you're a startup or a large corporate. And given that it's a continuous effort. You need to make it a habit, and you need to make it iterative. And I think the more you're able to put systems and structured processes inside this, the easier it gets to make it iterative and to make it a habit. That's my advice. Ula Ojiaku:  33:08 That's a great advice. So, innovation and exploration never end. Make it a habit. Make it iterative. Yes. That's great. Fantastic. Thank you so much once more, Dr. Sharon for taking the time for this chat. It's been a great pleasure having you. Sharon Tal:  33:24 Thank you very much Ula for hosting me and it was my pleasure as well.

"We really are coming alongside of those entrepreneurs and small business owners and helping them turn their passion to profit" - Tim RussellToday’s episode is part of our efforts to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the small businesses and entrepreneurs that make up the economic fabric of our neighborhoods. We wanted to feature the voices of the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center who’s 30-year mission is to provide intensive entrepreneurship training, networking and mentorship to support the launch and growth of women owned businesses through their US Small Business Administration San Francisco Women's Business Center and to find out what they’re doing to help our entrepreneurs survive the economic meltdown. Let’s hear from Sharon and Tim on what they and their regional team at Renaissance are doing to help small businesses owners survive and thrive during the pandemic

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In dieser Folge treffe ich mich mit Dr. Christian Herles, Rechtsanwalt und Unternehmensjurist sowie ehrenamtlich als Mentor beim „Entrepreneurship Center“ der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München tätig. Gemeinsam diskutieren wir über die soziale Verantwortung digitaler Unternehmen in der heutigen Zeit. Unternehmen stehen vor großen Herausforderungen sich vor Rechtsverstößen im Innen sinnvoll zu schützen, aber auch vor der Herausforderung darüber hinaus gesellschaftliche Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Globale Plattformen scheinen den Staat bei der Frage abzulösen, welche Meinungen geäußert werden dürfen und welche gesperrt werden. Der Ruf nach dem Staat und Regulation werden lauter. Aber es entstehen auch Chancen. Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Verantwortung durch Unternehmen schaffen Werte und der gesellschaftliche Diskurs zeigt, dass unsere Demokratie auf einem guten Fundament steht. Digitale Verantwortung ist ein Zukunftsthema und kein kurzer Trend. Damit sich die Digitalisierung nicht von einer Utopie in eine Dystopie wandelt, muss ein ethischer Kompass für die digitale Transformation entworfen werden. Wie dies in der Praxis umgesetzt werden kann und vor welchen Herausforderungen wir heute stehen, möchten wir in diesem Podcast besprechen.

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In this episode, our host, Micheal Pope, will engage in a lively conversation with Bret Alexander Sweet, East Bay Program Director at Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center. Bret is a passionate community change-maker, author, inventor, orator, urbanist, and an outspoken advocate for Alzheimer's caregivers. Born in San Francisco, California, he is the son of prominent Bay Area civil rights attorney and social entrepreneur Clifford Charles Sweet. With over 20 years of experience as a social entrepreneur, Bret has started digital media companies, social enterprises, and education companies. He created the first online music distribution system in 1996, which led to his passion for building systems and companies that change how people interact. In March 2016, Bret entered and won the Chevron eQuip Project Pitch, securing three million dollars to build a business incubator/co-working space in downtown Richmond known as CoBiz Richmond, open for business in August of 2019. Bret combined his passion for music and entrepreneurship by opening his independent record label, House Kemetic Suns. He had established the first online music distribution channel when he was 19; 6 years before, Steve Jobs would bring iTunes to market. Being a certified entrepreneurship instructor trainer, Bret has taught and developed an entrepreneurship curriculum for youth for the last decade for companies such as NFTE and BUILD. Most recently, Bret served as the director for entrepreneurship and digital media management programs at Cogswell College. Over the years, Bret volunteers as a mentor and motivational speaker for young adults in urban schools. In July 2013, Bret became a published author to release his novel "Among The Veils." In his free time, Bret enjoys reading, martial arts, and community development. He is passionate about wellness, fitness, and preventive health for lower-income communities of color.

On this episode, we talk with Mark Alexander, Director of the newly renamed Bridgerland Entrepreneurship Center. We talk about the name change, the services they offer to startups and entrepreneurs, and success stories coming out of the Center. Visit the Bridgerland Entrepreneurship Center on their website. https://btech.edu/bec/ Learn more about the Cache Valley Chamber and become a member at: https://cachechamber.com/ The Cache Valley Insider is a production of the Cache Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Phil Michaels is a dual-degree graduate with a Master of Business Administration (MBA): Entrepreneurship & Master of Science (MS): Marketing at Sykes College of Business at The University of Tampa (UT). In 2018, UT’s Entrepreneurship Center tied Yale as one of the best Entrepreneurship Centers in USA by Bloomberg Businessweek and in 2015, was ranked #7 best value MBA program in world by Business Insider, defeating Harvard, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest, University of Chicago, and Columbia.Phil was a pre-med student in his undergraduate career and graduated from the business school in 2015. Phil then founded Tembo Education. Tembo educates 0-6 aged children around the world using texts / WhatsApp. In 2016, Phil was listed in Forbes as the Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30.Phil went on to become a performance coach, coaching mostly CEOs at Harvard and MIT, but also including financial traders, investors, & more. Learn more at www.iamphilmichaels.com

This week we have a really interesting angle on the way that cleantech companies are lifted from the dust. Today's intrapreneur and entrepreneur is Trish Cozart, Program Manager for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado. Now, Trish has been recommended by several people, but a special shoutout to Antenna Group for helping make this interview happen for you. Trish and I really dig into how the National Renewable Energy Lab, through its Innovation Entrepreneurship Center, is helping to spur entrepreneurship, hence supporting what most cleantech activists and advocates are trying to bring in to the world, both from funding as well as enabling a much broader network, far beyond just the dollars that go into the companies that come through the cohort's in her organization within NREL. Remember you can always find the resources and learn more about today’s guest, recommendations, book links and more than 300 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. Gain access to all the show notes & resources from this episode here You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on Twitter, LinkedIn or email Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

This week we have a really interesting angle on the way that cleantech companies are lifted from the dust. Today's intrapreneur and entrepreneur is Trish Cozart, Program Manager for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado. Now, Trish has been recommended by several people, but a special shoutout to Antenna Group for helping make this interview happen for you. Trish and I really dig into how the National Renewable Energy Lab, through its Innovation Entrepreneurship Center, is helping to spur entrepreneurship, hence supporting what most cleantech activists and advocates are trying to bring in to the world, both from funding as well as enabling a much broader network, far beyond just the dollars that go into the companies that come through the cohort's in her organization within NREL. Remember you can always find the resources and learn more about today’s guest, recommendations, book links and more than 300 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. Gain access to all the show notes & resources from this episode here You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on Twitter, LinkedIn or email Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

In this episode of GrepBeat's "Pete Meets..." web series, we welcome Vickie Gibbs, the Executive Director of the UNC Entrepreneurship Center, thanks to our sponsor TriNet. GrepBeat's Pete McEntegart moderates. (Thus the "Pete Meets...")

Topics include: + Not being an economist + A passion for geology + Composing music based on a passion + Communicating emotions throughout the world Jeffrey Nytch enjoys a diverse career as a composer, educator, performer, and consultant. He is an Associate Professor at The University of Colorado-Boulder, where he has served as Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music since 2009, and continues to maintain an active composition career with performances at leading venues throughout the U.S. Nytch is in wide demand as a speaker and scholar, having delivered papers at numerous national and international meetings of artists and entrepreneurs, and is a frequent guest clinician at schools and conservatories nationwide. His book, The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring Your Career in Classical Music was released by Oxford University Press in 2018.

Marie Lapidus does her first phone interview on the radio.  She interviews John Dallas of ENCLAVE, the Entrepreneurship Center in Elk Grove Village about the psychological effects of the pandemic on the entrepreneur....and John himself.

In this episode, we talk with Jessie Li, an independent consultant at Singapore Management University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and Founder of Fat Garage, an interesting website covering Chinese entrepreneurs in niche markets, such as asteroid mining, synthetic biology, and more.She founded the roam/cn Community, a collective of Roam users from all walks of life in Mandarin, filled with videos, articles, and other resources to learn together, and develop use cases for Roam Research.We talked about:How she discovered Roam through Product Hunt, and getting jealous of her friend's Roam graphSupporting Chinese Roam users in roam/cn and growing up to 200+ members The future of Roam in media, as a university and a new TwitterEnjoy!Thank you to Matt Brockwell for the awesome review!Timestamps3:45 Jessie's background, developing China's entrepreneurship ecosystem8:25 The meaning of 'Fat Garage'11:31 Discovering the tool through Product Hunt13:32 "I was jealous of his graph"16:15 Roam in beta, and the a-ha moments19:35 The Business Model Canvas24:04 Jessie Li's templates and routines27:18 Starting roam/cn and gathering the Chinese Roam community29:48 Interpreting Conor's interview on 20minutesvc33:36 WeChat group with 230+ members38:20 Overlap between Roam China's members and other WeChat groups41:33 Seeing roam/cn in 5 years, and the future of Roam42:36 Roam will be a better university44:58 Roam can be a better media48:59 Roam can be a better Twitter59:41 Running roam/cn in a chaotic way54:06 Collective intelligence and the roam/cn public Roam graph57:52 [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]]1:03:53 [[What does Roam mean to you?]]LinksJessie's TwitterFat Garage Websiteroam/cn BiliBili Channelroam/cn Public Roam GraphSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/normanchella)

With Zac Gonzalez, Carolina alumnus and former student intern at Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Entrepreneurship Center; and Asa Juhlin, Carolina student and summer virtual intern In the early spring of 2020, many students at UNC-Chapel Hill and other universities had their summer internships set. Then the COVID-19 pandemic had other plans. During this podcast, we’ll hear from alumnus Zac Gonzalez, who worked at the UNC Entrepreneurship Center to develop the Innovation Internship Program, which included many students whose original startup internships were disrupted or morphed into virtual gigs. One of those students was Asa Juhlin, a sophomore who spent his summer working virtually in Hillsborough for Darkroom, a full-service digital agency located in Los Angeles and founded by a recent UNC alumnus, Lucas DiPietrantonio. Gonzalez shares how the new internship program works as a matchmaker to identify meaningful, project-based opportunities at high-growth startup companies and pair them with self-starter students like Juhlin. Gonzalez talks about the benefits of interning at startups, while Juhlin describes living out those benefits firsthand as he navigated the world of online collaboration technologies and sales business culture with growing curiosity and confidence. UNC students, faculty and staff, do you need advice about a virtual internship? Or something else related to entrepreneurship? Check out our new "Ask an Innovator" online platform that gives you a quick, simple way to get answers about your idea or venture. ""Ask an Innovator" - askaninnovator.protopia.co/

What does innovation actually mean? How do cities learn from each other during this era of innovation? Is this a particular "era," even? I speak with David Graham, the Chief Innovation Officer at the City of Carlsbad, CA, and with David Ricketts, the inaugural Innovation Science Fellow in the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard about these very questions and more.

State Representative Ed Setzler, who created House Bill 481, responds to the federal judge’s ruling. Then, we hear from Kwajelyn Jackson, executive director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center.Next, a conversation with Dr. Tiffany Bussey, director of the Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and Allan Adams, state director for the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center, about a new partnership to support economic development in the city’s West End. Finally, Mark Farmer, economic development manager with Gwinnett County, discusses a new program that was established to help Gwinnett small business owners during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Episode NotesOn this episode of The Built in Seattle Podcast, I talked with Emily Carrion, CMO at Rubica.Highlights:A day in the life of a the elusive startup CMO.How Emily made the transition into a new, complex industry.How she learned a new space and why her lack of inside knowledge was a benefit.How the Rubica leadership team put a focus on health and family.Why avoid a marketing message focused on fear. And how Emily developed the market message for Rubica around agency instead of fear.Marketing and story telling during a pandemic - how to talk to people like people rather than "opportunities."How Rubica expanded and positioned their products to be more helpful with the rise of remote work.Why Emily spends so much time talking to customers and the tactics she uses to get customer feedback.Guest Bio:Emily Carrion leads growth, marketing, sales, and customer success at Rubica. A five-time technology start-up veteran and executive marketing leader, Emily has been instrumental in growing brands such as Textio, Apptentive, Mixpo and Point Inside. She’s experienced in building brands that customers love, driving revenue growth, collaborating across the organization, and building high-performing teams. She’s equal parts strategic and tactical, data driven and creative storyteller, leader and a doer. She thrives in high-growth startup environments, and brings an obsession for learning, culture of experimentation, results-orientation, and contagious optimism. Emily has an MBA from Seattle University and now serves on the Board of Directors of Seattle University’s Entrepreneurship Center, and a BA from Whitman College.Where to follow Emily:https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilycarrionhttps://twitter.com/emily_carrionWhere to follow Adam:https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamschoenfeld/https://twitter.com/schoenyFeedback? Suggestions on who to interview? Email me anytime - adamseattlepodcast@gmail.com

Meet the Masters – Ted Zoller on his role as a Professor of Entrepreneurialism. We discuss growing up in an entrepreneurial town, teaching entrepreneurial studies and the ascension of Millennials Hey everybody. This is Trevor Chambers. I'm the host of Meet the Masters with Olde Raleigh Financial Group here in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today is the 1st of May 2020, and I'm really excited to be present… I have the distinct honor of capturing a talk with the one and only Ted Zoller who… Ted's an awesome guy. He's a pretty [inaudible 00:04:55] guy actually in my thoughts and in my personal history, and I'll let him talk about what he does, but he's the T.W. Lewis Clinical Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at UNC where he researches, focused on the role of structure of entrepreneurial networks and the interrelationships with investor syndicates. Let me be more clear. You are at Kenan-Flagler, which is part of UNC Chapel Hill. I botched that whole thing, Ted. But if you could just pick up my slack, that'd be totally helpful. All right? Ted Zoller: Absolutely. Trevor Chambers: So it's good to have you. I'm going to start. Can you just give me a nice synopsis of the history of one Ted Zoller? Where'd you come from, how'd you get here, what's going on? Ted Zoller: Geez. You know, it's funny, we share a similar background. I came from upstate New York of all things. A little town called Seneca Falls, which is one of the most incredible places, because it was the place where Frank Capra actually based It's a Wonderful Life on, so it's kind of an idyllic little town. It was a town built by entrepreneurs. I've got a map, literally, in my garage, in my shop, of Seneca Falls and the industrial history of Seneca Falls, and all these great entrepreneurs who started companies there to manufacturer things like fire trucks and pumps and it ended up being kind of a major manufacturing town and all these beautiful homes that are there because all these people were first generation entrepreneurs. So it was just a great place to come from. I think that's probably why I got interested in entrepreneurship, because- Read Full Interview Transcript at: https://olderaleighfinancial.com/meet-the-masters-ted-zoller-discusses-his-role-as-a-professor-of-entrepreneurialism/ Olde Raleigh Financial Group 3110 Edwards Mill Road, Suite 340 Raleigh, NC 27612 Phone: 919.861.8212 This material is provided as a courtesy and for educational purposes only from Olde Raleigh Financial Group, A member of Advisory Services Network and should not be construed as investment advice. All information contained in this video is derived from sources deemed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed. All economic and performance data is historical and not indicative of future results. All views/opinions expressed in this video are solely those of the presenter and do not reflect the views/opinions held by Advisory Services Network, LLC. Please consult your investment professional, legal or tax advisor for specific information pertaining to your situation.

Michael Cohen, The Tech Rabbi, is a designer, educator and creativity instigator. His mission is to help educators around the world reveal their own creative abilities so they can empower students to solve interesting problems and become positive contributors to our global society. He is the author of the book Educated By Design, which outlines his principles for revealing and nurturing our innate creative courage and capacity. He is a national keynote speaker, advisor, and trainer. When he isn't traveling the world sharing his message, he serves as the director of innovation for Yeshiva University of Los Angeles Boys School (YULA) where he manages and teaches at the Schlesinger STEAM and Entrepreneurship Center.

The National Renewable Energy Lab, NREL for short, has been in existence since 1977. It was founded by the Carter administration as a reaction to the oil shocks of the mid-70s. It was the first acknowledgment by the federal government that our economic and national security interests demanded that we diversify our energy resources from exclusively fossil fuels to renewables. The clean energy economy was born! In the 40+ years since the founding of the laboratory, the clean energy industry has experienced fits and starts but has ultimately developed into what today is a mature, well-funded industry that enjoys support from both the public and private sectors. Richard Adams, our guest on today’s episode, is the Director of the Innovations and Entrepreneurship Center at NREL and oversees two fascinating programs: The Innovation Incubator - a technology partnership with Wells Fargo and GCxN, a technology accelerator partnership with Shell. Richards’ position situates him at the crossroads of clean technology innovation and the public/public partnerships that fund and dictate the needs of much of that innovation. Richard’s insights into the evolution of the clean technology industry, the respective interests and responsibilities of the diverse entities that comprise the cleantech ecosystem, and the state of early-stage cleantech investing are driven by his day-to-day interactions with Shell, Wells Fargo, the other hundreds of NREL stakeholders, as well as with the early-stage cleantech innovators that he supports.

Dr. Rob Mathews is the Director and Operations Manager of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State University. He is also an Instructor of Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship Center in the Miller College of Business. He currently teaches the introductory entrepreneurship course, “The Entrepreneurial Experience”. Mathews has also led courses in market research, the business plan, entrepreneurial design, entrepreneurial decision- making, entrepreneurial consulting, management ethics, marketing for new ventures, and entrepreneurial finance. Golden nuggets: Entrepreneurship is team based Focus on the positives Keys to success: Understand who you are (self-awareness) Understand other people (other awareness) Actionable tip: It’s all about people. Inspiration: “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson Guest Information: Rob Mathews Website: https://elprofile.com/

ABOUT: Dr. Rob Mathews (rob@elprofile.com) is the Director and Operations Manager of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State University. He is also an Instructor of Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship Center in the Miller College of Business. He currently teaches the introductory entrepreneurship course, “The Entrepreneurial Experience”. Mathews has also led courses in market research, the business plan, entrepreneurial design, entrepreneurial decision- making, entrepreneurial consulting, management ethics, marketing for new ventures, and entrepreneurial finance. In his role in the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, Mathews maintains the Institute’s budget and leads faculty, staff, K-12, adult, and community entrepreneurial leadership and problem solving training and facilitation programs. Mathews previously served as the Assistant Director of the Entrepreneurship Center in the Miller College of Business. His primary role was to mentor students on researching, compiling, writing, pitching, presenting, and defending new venture business plans. He also led student teams in entrepreneurial consulting projects. During his tenure in the Entrepreneurship Center, he led student teams in the Military 2 Market initiative between the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division and Department of Defense. He has also aided the Entrepreneurship Center in various outside partnerships. Mathews has also been involved in budget management, curriculum development, business community and advisory board relations, and led youth programs, Mini Society and EntrePrep. He served on the selection committee for the Blue Chip Enterprise awards. Mathews won the Entrepreneurial Support award in 2001 and 2006 for his contributions to the Ball State University Entrepreneurship Program. Mathews earned his undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship and MBA in entrepreneurship and management of information systems from Ball State University. While earning his undergraduate degree, he received the Outstanding New Venture Plan Award. In addition, he holds a Doctorate in Higher Education. His research focuses are on ideation, creativity, entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial talent, entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurial education. Rob is the co-author of Entrepreneurship the Disney Way and the co-creator of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Instrument. He is a certified trainer, facilitator, and consultant in the Simplexity Complex Problem Solving and Innovation Process. He is trained in Simplexity Applied Creativity levels I (Personal Integration), II (Team Integration), III (Organizational Integration), and IV (Train the Trainer), as well as having the designation of Professional Innovation Advisor (PIA). He is also a certified Gallup StrengthsFinder and Builder Profile-10 (BP-10; Formerly Entrepreneurial Profile-10), Myers-Briggs, DiSC, and Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile coach and facilitator. Rob is also a certified coach and trainer in the John Maxwell leadership system. STAY CONNECTED: Facebook: Mind2Momentum Instagram: mind2momentum Twitter: @Mind2Momentum YouTube: Mind2Momentum LinkedIn: Mind2Momentum _____________________ Thank you again for joining us today please check out our webpage at www.riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, articles, free resources, and events to help you get to the next level in your life! You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Youtube @riseupforyou If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Please support Rise Up For You by writing a review on iTunes. Your feedback will really help the success of our show and push us to continuously be better! So don’t forget to show your support!

Hey Wired Educators! Check out all of the new Wired Educator graphics, logos and designs, created by artist & illustrator Josh Janes. I love them, and I hope you do too. Leave some feedback in the comment section. In this episode of The Wired Educator Podcast, I interview Michael Cohen, The Tech Rabbi. Michael Cohen, known as The Tech Rabbi, is a designer and technologist turned educator. As a speaker, writer and creativity instigator, he's on a mission to help young people develop the creative confidence they need to become challenge seekers and solution designers.  He is the author of the book Educated By Design,which outlines his principles for revealing and nurturing our innate creative courage and capacity. He works with schools, institutions and businesses to help them create or refine opportunities for students to leverage technology, media creation and digital age skills in ways that foster inquiry and the drive to solve the complex challenges of our global society. Cohen shares his story of design and creativity through social media, keynote addresses and featured talks on international stages, including ISTE, SXSW EDU, Congreo Mexico, EdTechTeacher Summits and Apple Education events. He currently serves as the director of innovation at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles Boys School (YULA), where he manages and teaches at the Schlesinger STEAM and Entrepreneurship Center. He's also an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Trainer, Adobe Certified Trainer and has been ranked as one of today's top 50 edtech influencers. Mentioned in this episode:  Planbook.com: Our sponsor! Planbook.comis the best way to create, organize, and share your lesson plans.  Read Michaels book: Educated by Design: Designing the Space to Experiment, Explore and Extract Your Creative Potential Visit Michael's website: https://thetechrabbi.com Follow Michael on Twitterand Instagram.  Michael is currently reading: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the Worldby Adam Grant   ———————————————————————– Kelly Croy is an author, speaker and educator. If you'd like to learn more about Kelly, or invite him to your school or conference to speak please send him an email. • Listen to Kelly's other podcast, The Future Focused Podcastand subscribe. • Subscribe to The Wired Educator Podcastwith over 130 episodes of interviews and professional development. • Visit Kelly's website at www.KellyCroy.com. • Looking for a dynamic speaker for your school's opening day? • Consider Kelly Croy at www.KellyCroy.com • Order Kelly's book, Along Came a Leaderfor a school book study or your personal library. • Follow Kelly Croy on Facebook.  • Follow Kelly Croy on Twitter.  •  Follow Kelly Croy on Instagram 

Michael Goldsby, PhD is the Stoops Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at Ball State University. Also the co-author of Entrepreneurship The Disney Way, which he co-wrote with Rob Mathews, Mike joins the show today to discuss the unbeatable combination of entrepreneurship, passion, and creativity that Walt Disney had to establish one of the most successful businesses in history. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2PNIRJA   

In this episode of “ Ask the Tech Coach (https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/) ,” Jeff and Nick sit down with Michael Cohen, Matt Miller, and Chris Aviles to discuss their top branding strategies for educators. This podcast is sponsored by Concordia University – Portland (http://cu-portland.edu/letsconquer) In this episode, we discuss: Reflections from Last Week Tech Coach Mastermind Join the Tech Coach Mastermind (http://www.teachercast.net/Mastermind) and learn how to help your school district today!2 Mastermind group meetings each month 1:1 Coachings with Jeff and Nick Lifetime access to our Tech Coach Online Community Free Lesson Plans Free Templates Much Much More Payment Discounts2 Month Promo Code: 50 6 Month Promo Code: 100 12 Month Promo Code: 150 Website www.TeacherCast.net/Mastermind (http://www.teachercast.net/Mastermind) Do You Have a Question For Us? www.TeacherCast.net/VoiceMail (http://www.teachercast.net/VoiceMail) Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach (http://twitter.com/askthetechcoach) Email: feedback@teachercast.net (mailto:feedback@teachercast.net) How and Why to Build an Educational Brand Is it important to have a branded identity? What goes into creating a recognizable brand? The importance of a website in branding. Content Creation Strategy Favorite ApplicationsWebsiteWordPress GraphicsAdobe Photoshop Adobe Spark (http://spark.adobe.com) Adobe Rush Canva (http://canva.com) Camera App Social MediaBuffer – Social Media Scheduling StrategiesHave something to give away (PDF) through a newsletter/mailing list Mailchimp (http://mailchimp.com) ConvertKit (http://convertkit.com) How to approach conferences/conventions Being recognizable on the outside and a teacher on the inside (http://www.askthetechcoach.com) Ep44: Schoology: Standards-Based Grading 40 Chrome Extensions Every Tech Coach Should KnowAbout our GuestsChris AvilesChris Aviles is a teacher at Knollwood middle school in the Fair Haven school district in Fair Haven, New Jersey where he runs the renown Fair Haven Innovates (https://www.fairhaveninnovates.com/) program he created in 2015. Links of Interest @TechedUpTeacher (http://www.twitter.com/techedupteacher) www.TechedUpTeacher.com (http://www.techedupteacher.com)   Matt MillerMatt Miller is a career Spanish teacher turned speaker, blogger and author of Ditch That Textbook (http://ditchthattextbook.com) . Through blog posts, books, videos, podcasts, and other resources, he empowers teachers to teach with less reliance on the textbook through technology, creativity and innovation. Links of InterestBlog: DitchThatTextbook.com/101 (http://ditchthattextbook.com/101) Twitter: @jmattmiller (http://twitter.com/jmattmiller) Facebook: facebook.com/ditchthattextbook (http://facebook.com/ditchthattextbook) YouTube: youtube.com/ditchthattextbook (http://youtube.com/ditchthattextbook) Pinterest: pinterest.com/ditchthattxt (http://pinterest.com/ditchthattxt) Michael CohenMichael Cohen, The Tech Rabbi, is a designer, educator and creativity instigator. His mission is to help educators around the world reveal their own creative abilities so they can empower students to solve interesting problems and become positive contributors to our global society. He is the author of the book Educated By Design, which outlines his principles for revealing and nurturing our innate creative courage and capacity. He is a national keynote speaker, advisor, and trainer. When he isn’t traveling the world sharing his message, he serves as the director of innovation for Yeshiva University of Los Angeles Boys School (YULA) and creator of the Schlesinger STEAM and Entrepreneurship Center. Links of Interest www.TheTechRabi.com (http://www.TheTechRabi.com) www.Twitter.com/TheTechRabi...

With Rebecca White, Entrepreneurship and James W. Walter Distinguished Chair of Entrepreneurship; Director, Entrepreneurship Center; Professor; University of Tampa Can you teach entrepreneurship? The explosion of successful entrepreneurial education programs has answered this question with a resounding “yes.” Yet, many questions remain – and renowned entrepreneurial education expert Rebecca White joins us to answer them. Which next-generation teaching models work best for future entrepreneurs? What role does assessment play? What does experiential learning mean for entrepreneurs, and why is it critical? And how can we provide just-in-time learning for students and alumni as they face real-world challenges? White lends her insights to these questions, talks about the need for resiliency, and discusses key factors in communities that are emerging as entrepreneurial hotspots.

Spark Growth specializes in Smart Cities/Innovation District development projects, Thought Leadership/ Experience Design, Economic Development initiatives, and cultivating Entrepreneur Ecosystems. Credentials include certifications in Business Incubation Management through the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) and Agile Strategy development through the Purdue University Agile Strategy Lab. Spark Growth co-produces Smart Cities Innovation Accelerators with The Innovator’s Forum, an initiative of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). These agile strategy workshops empower city decision makers to peer to peer relationships, enable them to make more informed decisions, create project scalability, and improve their ROI. Workshops are supported by expert industry partners, offering a broader perspective of successful strategies, who in turn learn firsthand issues cities face, and how to better serve the needs of their city customers. www.sparkgrowth.net https://www.facebook.com/SparkGrowth https://twitter.com/Spark_Growth

On this weeks episode of C-Suite Success Radio, your host Sharon Smith interviews Brian Hazelgren, a globally recognized expert in startups, sales  & marketing, business planning, health and wellness, and leadership training. Brian tells us how he implemented the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Utah and created the new degree in Entrepreneurship. He shares his definition of success and how he learned the importance of leadership from his coaches during his time on the BYU National Championship Football team. Learn how Brian defines success and the lessons he has learned to help you gain the edge you are looking for.  Brian on LinkedIn Website Books   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 8 Ron Swanson, Squidward, and SheNeNeh: How-To Manage Difficult Personalities In the Workplace In this episode, Co-Hosts Atty. Michelle Jenkins and Atty. Shelley Whitehead sit down with Jason Johnson to discuss best methods to avoid the ultimate clap-back session in the workplace. Michelle takes her first ever Myers Briggs test; our co-hosts learn why they work so well together; and the group identifies best practices for working with different personality types. Tune-In for this fun episode and identify your personality type and how you can improve your relationships with other personality types. Also, listen in for a HUGE announcement pertaining to our live taping, June 23rd, at Savage Smyth Event Space in Chicago, IL. Purchase your tickets today at BlackEsquirePodcast.EventBrite.com Follow Us on Facebook @The Black Esquire Podcast, Instagram @BlackEsquirePodcast, and in our closed Facebook Group "The Fellowship: The Black Esquire Podcast Congregation". Guest Spotlight: Jason Johnson is the Director of Entrepreneurship for the Chicago Urban League. As Director, Jason manages the day to day operations of the Entrepreneurship Center and guides the strategic direction of the department. Prior to becoming Director of Entrepreneurship, Jason served as a Entrepreneurship Program manager for the Chicago Urban League Entrepreneurship Center for three years. In this role, he was the primary instructor for the nextSTEP business launch program, and the nextCONNECTION technology integration program which launched in 2015. Through the nextCONNECTION program, Jason has provided intensive technology training to over 60 businesses. Jason also launched the Chicago Urban League Entrepreneurship Center’s #TechAroundTown event series while in the role of Entrepreneurship Program Manager. Prior to joining the Chicago Urban League, Jason was founder and principal consultant of Identity Engineers, a boutique business development and organizational development firm located in the Chicago Loop for 5 years. He also founded Konveau, a technology company that uses personality type and personal interests to help people connect at social gatherings. Jason is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership and holds a Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology. His dissertation will explore the impact of personality type on the networking behavior of executives. Resources: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

After winning the UNH Social Venture Innovation Challenge in December of 2017, Andrew DeMeo worked with the on-campus Entrepreneurship Center to get his business idea off the ground and create a full-fledged company called Half-Acre Beekeeping. Hear his story.

TEM130: Dr. Jeff Nytch on art and entrepreneurship co-existing, your single most important asset as an artist and his brand new book, The Entrepreneurial Muse Dr. Jeff Nytch is the Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of the brand new book, The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring Your Career in Classical Music. What You'll Learn: How Jeff had a curiosity about entrepreneurship from a very early age (including opening a “bank” to loan money to his siblings!) Why no educational endeavor is every wasted and how sometimes two seemingly disparate interests can intersect later in life What he learned from his six years as the Executive Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble How he was drawn to higher ed when he developed a burning desire to teach college students everything he learned only through experience after leaving school About Jeff's brand new book, The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring Your Career in Classical Music How he addresses people who claim that entrepreneurship and true art can't coexist by giving examples of successful artists who are doing both Why your unique artistic voice is your single most valuable asset as an artist Why the question “what else are you passionate about” is so important to being a successful entrepreneur How Jeff coming to a major arts organization with a complete solution in hand to a problem led to a wonderful collaboration (and getting paid!) Links: The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring Your Career in Classical Music Brooklyn Rider Time for Three 21CM.org TEM19: Canadian Pianist Ron Davis TEM99: Mark Rabideau of 21CM Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at: http://www.andrewhitz.com/shownotes 1. Help me get to my goal of $50 per episode on Patreon by pledging as little as $1 per episode to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tempodcast. 2. Thanks to everyone who helped me get to my goal of 50 ratings on iTunes! I appreciate it very much! And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM. Produced by Andrew Hitz

Randy Ingargiola is an experienced Business Ownership and Franchise Coach with The Entrepreneur's Source, the world's largest coaching organization dedicated to helping people achieve their goals through self-employment. As a trusted advisor, Randy works with his clients to help them explore the benefits of business ownership and identify opportunities that align with their personal and professional goals. In a career spanning over 30 years, Randy is dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and business excellence. He has over 15 years of experience in strategic planning, business plan development, high performance team development and business performance improvement as a senior executive in corporate America. He served as the launch director for the Love's Entrepreneurship Center, specializing in helping corporations and small businesses incorporate effective entrepreneurial principles and practices into their business. He delivered an internationally acclaimed development program for promoting entrepreneurship in individuals, corporations, and non-profits. Randy served as a quality examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Foundation and as Board Chairman for the business school of a private university. He is also a founding board member for a non-profit designed to promote creativity in commerce, culture, and education. Show Notes • Randy's role as a Franchise Coach [1:10] • Types of franchises a semi-absentee owner should consider [2:50] • The vending machine business a past client started [8:40] • Initial startup costs and expected revenue from a vending machine business [13:00] • Establishing a business to replace your corporate income [16:30] • Three key aspects Randy uses with his clients to determine which businesses to pursue [19:20] • Average time frame to find a business using a Franchise Coach [23:20] • How Randy is compensated for his work [26:00] • Prior work experience and skills required [27:30] • What you get in return for paying royalties to a franchise [36:40] • Factors that can cause a franchise to fail [41:00] • Things to keep in mind when considering a business [44:20] • What is needed financially to qualify: liquidity, net worth, and other options [46:35] Tips • Establishing a side business before leaving a full time job can reduce risk [19:00] • A franchise will provide you with a business model including the tools and training you need – no experience is required [27:30] • Search for a franchise that fits your transferrable skills and passions [30:40] • Begin your search with the end in mind and evaluate each business against your goals [51:30]

In the debut episode of "Unwrapped", Janeen and Sonjie premier with a live podcast at a networking brunch. Partnering with the Raymond V. Hayesbert Sr. Entrepreneurship Center, Total Package, gave 12 young entrepreneurs an opportunity to meet and greet with career mavens. Dia Simms, President of Sean Combs Enterprises and the mastermind behind Ciroc, talks balancing marriage and motherhood while also running several of Diddy's top brands. Check out website www.tpthemag.com. Sponsored by House of Bombshell Hair Loss Solutions.

On Episode 4 of Startup Soundbites, we chat with Vince Ponzo, Managing Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School. Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center: http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/entrepreneurship/ Companies founded by Columbia Business School grads mentioned on the podcast: Saatva Mattress: www.saatvamattress.com/ Thursday Boot Company: https://thursdayboots.com/ Beyond Meat: http://beyondmeat.com/ Happy Family Brands: https://happyfamilybrands.com/ Betterment: https://www.betterment.com/ x.ai: https://x.ai/ EpiBone: http://epibone.com/ It Cosmetics: https://www.itcosmetics.com/ Lola: https://www.mylola.com/ Amper Music: https://www.ampermusic.com/ Intro music by Drop Electric: www.dropelectric.com/ Follow the Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization: www.facebook.com/CBSCEO/ twitter.com/cbsceo

Link zu den Shownotes: http://julianhosp.com/dominieren/ep33 Falls du diese Show noch nicht auf iTunes abonniert hast, dann mache das unbedingt - so verpasst du keine Folge: https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/die-dominieren-statt-kampfen/id1122015542?mt=2#  Es gibt auch einen speziellen Newsletter mit Zusatztipps und -tricks zur Show. Registriere dich kostenlos dafür hier: http://julianhosp.com/dominieren/  Wenn du mir einen Gefallen tun würdest, dann hinterlasse mir bitte ein Review zur Show auf iTunes. Ich brauche diese Reviews damit mehr Leute von der Show hören und das ist schlussendlich ein WIN-WIN-WIN für alle. Das ganze dauert lediglich 1 Minute indem du einfach auf diesen Link hier klickst: http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1122015542 Wenn du Interesse hast voll durchzustarten und eine gute Gruppe dazu suchst, dann sei bei uns in der Mastermind Erfolgsgruppe dabei. Stelle eine Anfrage hier: http://www.JulianHospMastermind.com Brauchst du tägliche Motivation und Inspiration? Dann hol dir meinen motivierenden und inspirierenden täglichen Audio Blog: http://tab.julianhosp.com ------------------------------------------ SHOWNOTES: Spätestens seit seinem Hit „Châpeau“ in 2015 hat er sich in der Musiker-Szene einen Namen gemacht. Mittlerweile wird er sogar von Fans auf der Straße erkannt und genießt das Gefühl mit dem erfolgreich zu sein, was er liebt zu tun. Mein heutiger Gast, Robert Redweik, ist allerdings nicht nur in der Musik bekannt. Unter anderem ist er tätig als Dozent an diversen Universitäten und Hochschulen in München, arbeitet an seinem eigenen Getränke-Start-Up und moderiert das Entrepreneurship Center der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.  In unserem heutigen Gespräch geht es nicht nur um die Musik, sondern auch darum wie man sich ein erfolgreiches Netzwerk aufbaut, wie er all seine verschiedenen Projekte unter einen Hut bringt und wieso er uns allen eine Indien-Reise empfiehlt. Viel Spaß beim Hören!   DETAILS: 04:44 Min – Persönliche Vorstellung 10:29 Min – Bauchgefühl & Herz 17:46 Min – Das Leben ist ein vergesslicher Säufer 24:00 Min – Sein Beginn in der Pop-Rock-Musik 35:23 Min – Musik ist Roberts Liebe – was ist deine? 40:27 Min – neue Welt + Hund 48:04 Min – wie textest du 52:49 Min – Woher Robert seine Emotionen und seine Energie nimmt 01:04:46 h – Ein perfekter Morgen 01:09:33 h – Warum rauchen 01:11:30 h – Wer/Was sind beste Freunde 01:14:27 h – Besondere Fähigkeiten, die jede/r erlernen kann 01:17:01 h – Wieso Indien definitiv eine Reise wert ist 01:21:24 h – Drei krasse Tipps für (s)ein jüngeres Ich 01:23:05 h – Wie du erfolgreiche Leute findest und dich mit ihnen vernknüpfst 01:25:32 h – Kurze Fragen mit kurzen Antworten   MEHR ZUR PERSON: Homepage: www.robert-redweik.de Facebook-Seite: https://www.facebook.com/robertredweikofficial/ Instagram-Profil: https://www.instagram.com/robertredweik/ Hit „Châpeau“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGdVNXJPcEg MEHR ZUM THEMA: Musik-Manager Erik Laser: http://www.laserlaser.biz/ Getränke-Start-Up: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/getraenke-muenchner-machen-limonade-aus-basilikum-1.3152045 Polarstern-Energie: https://www.polarstern-energie.de/  

In this episode, I interview Bob Caspe CEO at International Entrepreneurship Center. Bob is a pioneer of innovation, having created among the first digital cameras. Bob has a unique perspective of technology and apps; comparing these in respect to evolution. Fascinating stuff!