ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: Redeeming Entrepreneurship | Mikel Berger | TEDxPurdueU

Here’s Great Tip: Redeeming Entrepreneurship | Mikel Berger | TEDxPurdueU

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Has the term “entrepreneur” been both villainized and glorified until it’s considered undesirable or unattainable? Mikel Berger explains to us how being an entrepreneur is an outlet for something more, and why he really wants to be called a redeemer.

Mikel likes software. In 2004, he partnered with one of his former professors to start DelMar Software Development, LLC to provide software development services to startup companies. In 2012, Mikel took over as president of Lafayettech and the major initiative was launching MatchBOX Coworking Studio because he remembered his days of working in his spare bedroom and coffee shops. He had to stop working from his spare bedroom because it was overtaken by his two kids.

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