Derek Pedersen on Committing through Uncertainty
“In the beginning, I had a lot of doubts,” Derek Pedersen says. “I didn’t know if all my effort was for nothing. But I wasn’t willing to quit. I had...
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Shane Grivich on Pursuing a Goal with Resilience
Scaling a new business is hard. Scaling a healthcare company when the government forces you to adjust your product and service every year is nearly...
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Frank Greer on Following Advice for Growth
Frank Greer didn’t have 5 million dollars to start a company. So as he sat through a business conference listening to the speaker say that...
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Mark Essex on Perseverance and Problem Solving
Everything changed for Mark Essex when his wife, Karen, landed a job at a methadone clinic in Atlanta, Georgia. At the time, Essex was working as a...
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Ryan Szrama on When [Not] to Pivot
Scaling a company to multi-million dollar revenue meant Ryan Szrama had a decision to make. His answer was to not change, but stay true to his career...
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Bill West on Building to Sell
Bill West, Chairman and CEO of Ellipsis Technologies in Greenville, SC, always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. Growing up with a dad who...
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Craig Kinley on Stepping Away from Corporate America
From founding South Carolina’s beloved Growler Haus franchise to launching business incubators across the state, Anderson native Craig Kinley has...
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Adaptive Clothing Trailblazer Brenda Wilton on Perfecting Your Pitch
When Techstars launched their Future of Longevity Accelerator to address the needs of individuals providing and receiving care for older adults in...
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Phil Yanov on Hosting 605 Tech Meetups in the Southeast
“Most networking events suck.” That’s the mantra Phil Yanov wrote on his whiteboard back in 2008 when he started Tech After Five, a series of...
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Zach Eikenberry on Pursuing Radical Ideas
Zach Eikenberry wasn’t an educator when he and a group of Greenville, SC-based CEOs founded NEXT High School, a public charter school dedicated to...
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Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Builder, John Moore, on Achieving Enlightened Self-Interest
Most people know John Moore as a Founder and former CEO of NEXT Upstate, a nationally-recognized entrepreneur development organization that has...
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Eric Dodds Uses Data to Drive Growth, Inform Strategy, and Keep Focus
It’s no secret that Eric Dodds is a master of business growth. He co-founded The Iron Yard in 2012 and in just five years’ time, grew it to the...
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Matt Dunbar On Investor Relationship Management
As the Co-Founder and Managing Director of VentureSouth, Matt Dunbar has seen what makes and breaks fledgling companies. Since its founding in 2008,...
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