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Candid advice to CEOs and founders building teams, mistakes included
To all startup founders and CEOs, freakishly celebrate and learn from your mistakes. There ‘s no greater teacher when it comes to building your company. Thursday’s second installment of our Let’s Talk session, hosted in partnership with Missouri Bank, was a great reminder of this and drove home that there is no playbook for how…
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Experts share hard truths about early financing at first Let’s Talk event
Last Wednesday, Silicon Prairie News and Missouri Bank held the first Let’s Talk event, gathering about a dozen entrepreneurs at the bank’s Crossroads branch for a discussion on startup financing with local experts. The three experts—Fred Coulson, Five Elms Capital; Michele Weigand, Focused Perspective; and Michael Williamson, Polsinelli—took us all to school on everything from…
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Let’s Talk: Where entrepreneurs join experts for drinks and conversation
You have questions about your startup, but don’t know who or where to turn. Finding trustworthy sources for the toughest problems you face can be a challenge, and doing it on a startup budget doesn’t make it any easier. There might be a solution. We hope so …