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This podcast explores the perspectives, insights and journeys of innovators & entrepreneurs who combined creative thinking and hard work to go beyond the expected. The podcast is powered by the Entrepreneurs Genome Project, which consists of research conducted by the Entrepreneurs Lab class taught by Ted Zoller, T.W. Lewis Clinical Professor and director of the Entrepreneurship Center at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. For More Info: http://innovate.unc.edu/podcast/
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This Is Getting Out Of Hand... | TBZS April 7, 2023
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In This Episode Of The Ben Zollers Show Kellie Gives A Weather Report, CUFFO Does A Mock Draft, Ben and Parker Talk About The Kat Hall Wiffle Ball Classic, Val Talks About Her Spring Break, And Parker Joins For Parkers PicksDe către Ben Zollers Productions / Kellie Donohue, Jack Cuiffitelli, Valeria Acevedo, Parker Hall
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Season 3, Episode 12 - An entrepreneur’s path to anti-racist education
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With Ronda Taylor Bullock, co-founder and lead curator, we are When Ronda Taylor Bullock enrolled in her doctoral program at the UNC School of Education in 2014, she planned to be an educator, not a social entrepreneur. Yet growing social unrest across the country drove her to become both. As co-founder of a social startup that provides anti-racism…
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Season 3, Episode 11 - Global venture grind
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With Niki Shamdasani (UNC-Chapel Hill alumna), co-founder and CEO of Sani; and Ritika Shamdasani (NC State student), co-founder of Sani For two sisters who grew up in rural North Carolina, building a startup that fuses South Asian fashion with the perspectives of first-gen South Asian Americans has been an entrepreneurial education on a global stag…
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Season 3, Episode 10 - On the edge of thriving
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With Cecilia Polanco, founder and CEO, So Good Pupusas After several years of investing in her El Salvadorian-inspired, socially driven food truck businesses, 2020 promised to be a breakthrough year for Cecilia Polanco and the So Good Pupusas team. They’d paid off debt from purchasing trucks, refined their business model and were primed for profita…
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Season 3, Episode 9 - Identifying the entrepreneurial spark
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With Sheri Smith, founder and CEO of the Indigo Project What if you had more than an inkling of who is most poised to become an entrepreneur? What if there was a way to identify K-12 students who may lack access to traditional resources, but who have characteristics they can use to build entrepreneurial success? In this episode, Sheri Smith describ…
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Season 3, Episode 8 - Social capital for all
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With Patrick Sullivan, CEO of Bonsai; and Jake Rosenfeld, COO of Bonsai For many, the scenario is familiar: You apply for a job, and 10 days later an email hits your inbox politely telling you that you’re not getting an interview. How do you break through the hiring barrier? And how do you tap into professional connections that only the most privil…
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Season 3, Episode 7 - The Virtual Intern Life
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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…
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Season 3, Episode 6 - The entrepreneurial pharmacist: Connecting clinic to community
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With Franklin Roye, PharmD, president and co-founder of IndyCare; and Eshelman School of Pharmacy alumnus Imagine that you have the flu. But now you don’t have to visit your doctor to get tested or go to the pharmacy to fill a prescription – all while potentially exposing numerous others. Instead, you have a telehealth appointment, and then someone…
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Season 3, Episode 5 - When the goal is going out of business
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With Nick Black, co-founder and chairman of Stop Soldier Suicide; CEO and founder of GoodUnited; MBA alumnus of Kenan-Flagler Business School. Army veteran Nick Black’s entrepreneurial journey began when he moved into live combat just seven days into his first deployment. He learned to be part of a team and accomplish what seemed impossible. But af…
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Season 3, Episode 4 - Work Worth Doing
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With Alex Brandwein, MBA student at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and founder of Brandwein Bagels Like many entrepreneurs, Alex Brandwein found that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he had to quickly pivot to support his business and the community. Find out how he shifted Brandwein Bagels to a pre-order, pick-up-and-delivery model that gave the …
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Season 3, Episode 3 - Can crowds solve wicked problems?
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With Arvind Malhotra, H. Allen Andrew Professor of Entrepreneurial Education and Professor and Strategy of Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School With the world focused on the global coronavirus pandemic, decision makers wrestle with how to solve such “wicked problems” – massive challenges that are complex, have many interdependencies …
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Season 3, Episode 2 - Building Black Wall Street 2.0
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Season 3, Episode 1 - The Entrepreneurial Outliers
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Season 2, Episode 12 - An Entrepreneur’s Resume: Passion and People
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With serial social entrepreneur and founder Alec Guettel Serial social entrepreneur and Carolina alumnus Alec Guettel has secret for UNC graduates who are polishing their resumes: he’s never had one – at least in the traditional sense. In fact, the resume that propelled Guettel to found three companies, including leading solar energy company Sungev…
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Season 2, Episode 11 - Global entrepreneurship rising
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With Elmira Bayrasli global entrepreneurship author, CEO and co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, and professor at Bard College Picture an entrepreneur in your head, and you probably place them somewhere in Silicon Valley – or at least somewhere in the United States. Yet, there are now more entrepreneurs in countries outside the U.S. than insi…
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Season 2, Episode 10 - Gumption and Goals: Breakthrough Insights on Women Entrepreneurs
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With New York Times Best-selling author, entrepreneur and innovation consultant Diana Kander What makes successful women entrepreneurs tick? And what unique challenges do they face? Author and entrepreneur Diana Kander suggests that one helpful way for us to think about women entrepreneurs – and entrepreneurs in general – is as people who set and r…
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Season 2, Episode 9 - The unspoken entrepreneurial abyss
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With serial entrepreneur, investor, writer and UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus Erik Severinghaus In the movies, on TV shows and in our everyday conversations, we portray entrepreneurs as gritty, driven and passionate dreamers who rarely fail and never burn out. Yet, the reality paints a picture that’s not so pretty. Research shows that entrepreneurs have t…
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Season 2, Episode 8 - Activate your individuality: From passion to perseverance
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With entrepreneur, CEO, investor and author John Chisholm When starting a venture, you might immediately begin to identify the traditional assets that your business needs to cultivate in order to gain traction. But what about challenges or hardships faced along the way? How can those be turned into assets? And what steps can you take to develop you…
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Season 2, Episode 7 - Startup success formulas
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With Carolina student innovators Jordy Ascencio of Carolina Thrift and Aneesh Agarwal of Health Smart Technologies Is there a common formula that students follow when they build successful startups? Or do they gain traction by following divergent paths that depend on individual scenarios? Get the perspectives of two student innovators who participa…
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Season 2, Episode 6 - Entrepreneurs Within the Enterprise
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With Christian Carlson, Director of State, Local and Provincial Government at Esri; MBA Alumnus, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Most entrepreneurs who launch startups acknowledge that to be successful, you must be okay with taking risks. But how do you apply that same entrepreneurial mindset within an existing company or corporate structure? Chr…
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Season 2, Episode 5 - Six skills to build when launching your venture
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With student founders Andrianna Dallis of Arkoudaki and Ashka Shah of SaniStation Which skills are essential for students to develop and practice when they’re working to launch a venture? Get the perspectives of two student entrepreneurs who recently worked to build and pitch new ventures during the Carolina Challenge Makeathon and UNC Innovation S…
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Season 2, Episode 4 - The Bridge from Profit to Positive Impact
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With Susan Otten, founder, Indie Do Good The more profit you make, the more good you can do. And the more good you do, the more profit you can make. It’s a dual-sided core belief that motivates business founder Susan Otten as she leads Indie Do Good, the dot-com home of independent makers and entrepreneurs who make a positive difference. Hear how O…
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Season 2, Episode 3 - Intern insiders: Why start out at a startup
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With Clare Droney and Christian Hansen, Thinkternship student participants at UNC-Chapel Hill Everything you needed to know about business you learned in .... the classroom? Not for today's entrepreneurial-minded students who see internships at startups as unique chances to learn what they can't by sitting in lecture halls – or even working in trad…
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Season 2, Episode 2 - Making a bigger difference with big ideas
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With Lindsay Player, UNC-Chapel Hill alumna and former co-president of Musical Empowerment; Sha Chang, founder of EmpowerRT and professor at the UNC School of Medicine What are the secrets for scaling an idea with initial potential into a tangible solution that has broader social impact? In this episode, you’ll hear lessons learned from Lindsay Pla…
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Season 2, Episode 1 - Entrepreneurs: All in, All the Time?
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With Brent Comstock, founder and CEO of BCom Solutions; principal, Change Ventures For entrepreneurs, what does it mean to be all in, all the time? As entrepreneur, rural economic developer and venture capitalist Brent Comstock describes, it doesn’t have to mean working until 11 o’clock every night. But as he’s discovered in developing his team at …
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Episode 15: Tech Venture Traction: Five Keys to a Successful Start
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With Kimiko Suzuki and Jessime Kirk (CodeStories) and Rob Haisfield (Aloha) If you’re looking for advice on how to start a venture, you might not immediately think of turning to students. After all, they’re the ones who are learning, right? Yet, listen to the founders of CodeStories and Aloha, and you’ll get concrete advice based on critical early …
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Episode 14: Teaching Entrepreneurship - The Now and Next
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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 renown…
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Episode 13: To Learn and Launch - Student Entrepreneurs Talk Passion, Skills and Tenacity
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With Lucy Best and Emily Kian (Phyta) and Ana Soule (Phoenyx Project)Problem or solution? Which should you be more passionate about as a student entrepreneur? And what’s more critical: having the right entrepreneurial skills or in-depth knowledge? During our latest podcast, you’ll hear insights from students who lead the ventures Phyta (cultivating…
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Episode 12: The Collision of Ethics and Entrepreneurship with Tom Byers
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With Tom Byers, professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford UniversityData privacy concerns at Facebook. Fraud at Theranos. Sexual harassment controversies at Google. The news headlines are filled with one revelation after another of things gone askew at top tech companies – many led by some of our most revered entrepreneurial heroes. Join Tom Byers,…
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Episode 11: Passion-Driven Entrepreneurship and Making with Ben Barras
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with Ben Barras, president and chief operating officer at Indie Do GoodFind what you love and do it. When Ben Barras emerged from a dispiriting part of his distinguished career in consumer products and merchandising, he followed this advice from his father and helped to launch Indie Do Good, the dot-com home of independent makers and entrepreneurs …
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Episode 10: In Perfect Alignment: UNC Dental Researcher Creates Braces of Future with 3D Printing
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With Dr. Christina Jackson, instructor and former Masters Student at UNC School of Dentistry.Getting braces for straighter teeth is a rite of passage for many adolescents and an increasing number of adults. Wouldn’t it be great to have an orthodontic option that is comfortable and that other people can’t see? Christina Jackson, who completed the or…
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Episode 9: Baristas & Builders: How UNC Students Launched an On-Campus Coffee Shop
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Interview with Lauren Eaves and Scott Diekema, Co-Founders of The Meantime Coffee Co.When a small group of UNC students team set out to launch a full-service, student-run coffee shop on campus, there were a lot of days they thought it would never happen. Hear about the entrepreneurial path these students traveled to get their idea off the ground. W…
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Episode 8: Alexandra & Remmington of Coulture on what it takes to build a fashion magazine
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Coulture Magazine, the premier fashion lifestyle publication at UNC-Chapel Hill, has taken the campus by storm. What began as a conversation over lunch between Alexandra Hehlen and Remington Remmel — both recent Carolina seniors — blossomed into a full-fledged operation with 180 staff members. Created by students for students, the popular magazine …
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Episode 7: Jim Clifton & Sangeeta Badal on How Entrepreneurial Builders Can Energize the Economy
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How is a builder different from an entrepreneur and an innovator? And how can you build something - a new business, nonprofit, social enterprise or initiative - that can make an economic and social impact? Listen as Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup, and Dr. Sangeeta Badal, Principal Scientist - Entrepreneurship & Job Creation Initiative, at …
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Episode 6: Taylor Rhodes on Power of Building: Teams, Technology, and Work Ethic
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This episode features entrepreneur Taylor Rhodes, class of 2002 alum of the UNC Kenan Flagler Business School MBA program and CEO of SMS assist, a company at the intersection of the cloud and facilities management. He shares his story and discusses the importance of teams and mentorship to the entrepreneurial process. From serving in the U.S. Marin…
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Episode 4, How Basketball Fundamentals Can Inspire Your Entrepreneurial Playbook with Bill Aulet
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Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Bill has degrees from Harvard and MIT, and is a board member of MITEK Systems (NASDAQ: MITK) and XL Hybrids Inc. (Private). He is also a Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde (Scotland…
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Episode 3, On The Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller: Drew Sechrist (3/3)
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The very first episode of On The Heels of Innovation!
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Episode 2, On the Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller: Drew Sechrist (2/3)
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The very first episode of On The Heels of Innovation!
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Episode 1, On The Heels of Innovation with Ted Zoller: Drew Sechrist (1/3)
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The very first episode of On The Heels of Innovation!
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