Episode 237: Summertime Rewind with Courtney and Nathan

Welcome to our first podcast of August! For the next few weeks, we are continuing our summertime rewind series taking a look back at some of your favorite podcasts from the last five years of shows at Rochester Rising. Today, we are revisiting podcast episode 119, which originally aired on February 27, 2019. This episode was part of our ‘From the Edge’ series where we talked about trends in entrepreneurship with regional guests. In this episode we chatted with Courtney Bergey Swanson, a Community and Business Development Specialist with Community and Economic Development Associates (CEDA) and Nathan Wiedenman, who at the time was a Senior Technology IP Development Manager and is now the Director of the Office of Translation to Practice at Mayo Clinic. We have a really full conversation to share with you today about tech and high growth entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship, and building inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. Don’t miss out on this conversation!

Links from today’s show:
CEDA
Website: https://www.cedausa.com/
Facebook: @cedausa
Twitter: @cedausa
Instagram: @ceda_usa

Our sponsors:
CliftonLarsonAllen
Website: https://www.claconnect.com/

Rochester Rising Tip Jar: https://www.4giving.com/donation/5307

Music Attribution: Like That by Ano Domini Beats is licensed through the YouTube Audio Library.

Episode Breakdown:
0:00 Start
5:20 Introduction to guests
7:48 Reactions to Silicon Valley venture capital model
17:24 Trends in rural entrepreneurship
32:13 Building inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems
49:40 Ending thoughts
50:00 Conclusion
51:06 End

Welcome to our first podcast of August! For the next few weeks, we are continuing our summertime rewind series taking a look back at some of your favorite podcasts from the last five years of shows at Rochester Rising. Today, we are revisiting podcast episode 119, which originally aired on February 27, 2019. This episode was part of our ‘From the Edge’ series where we talked about trends in entrepreneurship with regional guests. In this episode we chatted with Courtney Bergey Swanson, a Community and Business Development Specialist with Community and Economic Development Associates (CEDA) and Nathan Wiedenman, who at the time was a Senior Technology IP Development Manager and is now the Director of the Office of Translation to Practice at Mayo Clinic. We have a really full conversation to share with you today about tech and high growth entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship, and building inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. Don’t miss out on this conversation!

Links from today’s show:

CEDA

Website: https://www.cedausa.com/                                                                 

Facebook: @cedausa

Twitter: @cedausa

Instagram: @ceda_usa

Our sponsors:

CliftonLarsonAllen

Website: https://www.claconnect.com/

Donate to our tip jar!

Rochester Rising Tip Jar: https://www.4giving.com/donation/5307

Music Attribution: Like That by Ano Domini Beats is licensed through the YouTube Audio Library. 

Episode Breakdown:

0:00 Start

5:20 Introduction to guests

7:48 Reactions to Silicon Valley venture capital model 

17:24 Trends in rural entrepreneurship

32:13 Building inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems

49:40 Ending thoughts

50:00 Conclusion

51:06 End