Episode 4: More Impactful Learning Experiences in Entrepreneurship

Host:

Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management

Guest:

Dr. Geoffrey Graybeal, Clinical Associate Professor, Management

Conversation topics:

• UN sustainable development goals
  • College accreditation around those goals
  • Classes working in teams to tackle the SDGs
  • Look at a global problem with a local perspective
• DoSomething.org - social campaigns (energy consumption for example)
• SEC pitch competition and the levels of competitors
• Boyd Innovation Center resource links
• Hipster, a hustler, and a hacker (business and IT)
• Research-based discussion around failure and learning from setbacks
  • Timing (also in literature) might be the barrier
  • Do something they’ve never done before, do something where they try to ge rejected
  • These entrepreneurial skills can serve you elsewhere in life
  • The entrepreneur education is resilience, being comfortable with ambiguity, risk tolerance
  • The mindset is what’s valuable
• The Columbia, S.C. ecosystem and its current status as an emerging supportive network

When you learn more, you know Moore. And when you know Moore, you do more.

Thanks for listening!

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