Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2015

Years ago, I was in the process of selling a $125,000 system to a well-known baseball hero who owned his namesake hotel in St. I tried to sleep in the room they gave me, and managed to make it to the 10:00 AM meeting with the very well-known sports figure and sales candidate. What pain! But it is the right thing to do.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 13, 2011

Rather, when I am trying to bring some concept or lesson to life for my students I tend to either use experiential exercises or stories from my own or other entrepreneurs' experiences. Entrepreneurs need to be the emotional spark plugs for their team. says Renee Chronister, owner of Parameter Security, a St. She was right.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2012

Although there is some debate on whether or not startup accelerators really turn out the success stories they promise, new accelerators are popping up all over, and startup entrepreneurs are clamoring to get into one. To find out, I talked to a few startup entrepreneurs about their accelerator experiences. If you live near St.

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ithacaVC

MARCH 20, 2012

The NCAA Division I wrestling championships were just held in St. Louis on March 15, 16 and 17th. Sounds like being an entrepreneur. I am not going to revisit the company building analogies as the prior post covers them well. Instead, the analogy of winning a national championship and an exit event are on my mind.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 2, 2016

I learn a lot from Bianca St. At that particular meeting Robin Chase was in attendance (I think she was the only woman entrepreneur) and I was in awe how she moved this idea to the product that became Zipcar. We met via Twitter several years ago when she was studying at Howard University. I assume it’s been very positive overall?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Judy Sindecuse , CEO and managing partner at Capital Innovators , a startup accelerator in St. Louis, is trying to crack the code. Her organization runs a 12-week mentorship program for promising entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area and provides them $50,000 in seed funding. The Missing Piece.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Judy Sindecuse, CEO and managing partner at Capital Innovators , a startup accelerator in St. Louis, is trying to crack the code. Her organization runs a 12-week mentorship program for promising entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area and provides them $50,000 in seed funding. The Missing Piece.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Judy Sindecuse, CEO and managing partner at Capital Innovators , a startup accelerator in St. Louis, is trying to crack the code. Her organization runs a 12-week mentorship program for promising entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area and provides them $50,000 in seed funding.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

With a new track focused on the emerging field of Sports Tech starting this year, MassChallenge and Stadia Ventures (“Stadia”) are collaborating to create an end-to-end pipeline of support for entrepreneurs by bridging talent, access to mentors, funding and relationships for founders building the next generation of sports and esports companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2020

How would you say that that element of managing the wins and losses and the emotional roller coaster, the sort of ultimate, did we make it to the World Series? I was working in St. Louis that year and so I was in visiting with the Cardinals, which doesn’t make people happy in Kansas City. crosstalk 00:09:31].

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. While it was not a widespread problem, there was an element of micro-management at the wrong levels. 15 minutes. Pricing information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

For instance tonight starts the National League Divisional Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and (guess who?) 7 Secrets to Being an Extraordinary Creative Manager crowdspring.co/1hliIP7. Lessons From Entrepreneurs Who Kept Their Day Jobs While Starting Their Businesses crowdspring.co/1WkFiHb. our beloved Cubs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I spent 10 years creating and running an insurance pricing company, 10 years creating and running a popular email provider called Fastmail, and almost 10 years as a very boring corporate strategy management consultant at McKinsey. And so I started doing that with this management consulting guy. Louis I think it was.

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