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Episode Synopsis
University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.
CREATIVE DISTILLATION
Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director [email protected]
Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director [email protected]
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | [email protected]
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EPISODE 25 Ska Street Brewstillery and The Impact of Location Considerations on Venture Performance
On Episode 25, our merry band of academics met at Ska Street Brewstillery on a snowy Friday in Boulder, and discussed the efficiencies and challenges of running a Brewstillery, and Ska Street's overriding sense of devotion to creating and hosting community. With business starting to return to pre-Covid levels, Brad and Jeff, along with Ska Street's co-founder Dustin Hall and General Manager Katie Nierling, toasted the business' surviving the pandemic. Then -- as you'll hear in the "special intro" to this episode, the following Wednesday it was announced that Ska Street had closed "indefinitely." A recording location closing before the recording actually airs: definitely a Creative Distillation first. We had a truly fantastic time at Ska Street and are sorry to see them go. We hold out hope that they will someday return.
We were also joined by Dean Sharon Matusik from CU's Leeds School of Business. She enthusiastically took part in the Ska Street segment (she was happy that her second appearance on the podcast wasn't again held at a coffee roastery), then stuck around to share the latest entrepreneurship activities at Leeds and the Deming Center (spoiler: there's a lot going on) as well as discuss "Location capabilities, institutional distance, and start-up survival" a paper she co-wrote along with Carla V. Bustamante (Director of a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at CU Boulder) and Jose Miguel Benavente (Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile). The paper examines the effects of institutional distance and location capabilities on international start-ups' survival rates.
Read the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gsj.1407
Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].
Thanks for listening.
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An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis
"AcidJazz" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
CREATIVE DISTILLATION
Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director [email protected]
Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director [email protected]
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | [email protected]
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EPISODE 25 Ska Street Brewstillery and The Impact of Location Considerations on Venture Performance
On Episode 25, our merry band of academics met at Ska Street Brewstillery on a snowy Friday in Boulder, and discussed the efficiencies and challenges of running a Brewstillery, and Ska Street's overriding sense of devotion to creating and hosting community. With business starting to return to pre-Covid levels, Brad and Jeff, along with Ska Street's co-founder Dustin Hall and General Manager Katie Nierling, toasted the business' surviving the pandemic. Then -- as you'll hear in the "special intro" to this episode, the following Wednesday it was announced that Ska Street had closed "indefinitely." A recording location closing before the recording actually airs: definitely a Creative Distillation first. We had a truly fantastic time at Ska Street and are sorry to see them go. We hold out hope that they will someday return.
We were also joined by Dean Sharon Matusik from CU's Leeds School of Business. She enthusiastically took part in the Ska Street segment (she was happy that her second appearance on the podcast wasn't again held at a coffee roastery), then stuck around to share the latest entrepreneurship activities at Leeds and the Deming Center (spoiler: there's a lot going on) as well as discuss "Location capabilities, institutional distance, and start-up survival" a paper she co-wrote along with Carla V. Bustamante (Director of a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at CU Boulder) and Jose Miguel Benavente (Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile). The paper examines the effects of institutional distance and location capabilities on international start-ups' survival rates.
Read the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gsj.1407
Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].
Thanks for listening.
-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis
"AcidJazz" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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