Hunting for Silver Linings w/ Sedem Balfour of Startup Grind Kumasi, Ghana.

Dec 30, 2020, 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Join Startup Grind Grand Rapids’ Chapter Director Corey Hart as we host an event series featuring check-ins with entrepreneurs and Startup Grind Chapter Directors from all corners of the world. Joining us for this event: Sedem Balfour of Startup Grind Kumasi, Ghana.

Virtual event

About this event

THE EVENT

Never before did founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders of even the smallest companies need to think that their command of and understanding of:

epidemiology

economics

public policy

public health

history

psychology

sociology

financial markets

science

technology

language

engineering

mathematics

and more!

... and tracking where they all intersect from moment to moment would ever be so important to how they, their family, their team, their firm survives just the next couple days... and the next couple weeks... and the next couple months, let alone plan for next year.

The fact is that most entrepreneurs today didn’t have to lead through the great recession, they weren’t CEOs during the dot com bubble, they likely didn’t study the economic impacts of the World War I and Spanish Flu one-two punch on the global economy.

How are they to be expected to do anything but follow their guts or the reactionary examples of their peers?

The pandemic has been and will continue to be the great global leveler.

As leaders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders we should be informed, rational, analytical and rigorous in our thinking.

No one has a crystal ball, but the markets operate virtually 24 hours, and across the globe. As markets open and close, and as their outcomes across all asset classes inform the decisions of every entrepreneur on the ground, we can at least see around the bend and do our very best to make the best decisions we can for our businesses, teams, and families.

OUR HOSTS

Corey is a serial entrepreneur and startup/founder coach & mentor. He currently serves as the CMO & Co-founder of Telebehavioral Health.US, and as Director of Operations for Systemic UNRACISM & MPRWD Business Magazine.

OUR SPECIAL GUEST

Wednesday, December 30, we are pleased to host Sedem Balfour of Startup Grind Kumasi, Ghana. Sedem will give us some insight on how the epidemic is affecting the startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem in his region, as well as provide advice to entrepreneurs.

THE AGENDA

10AM EST - 10 minutes of global market updates across all asset classes

10:10AM EST - We spend the rest of the hour checking in with entrepreneurs, founders, and Chapter Directors from around the globe to get accounts of what's happening in their areas and learn of what their challenges and opportunities are. 

Check out what happened

Speakers

  • Corey Hart

    Startup Grind Grand Rapids

    Chapter Director

  • Maya Heibel

    Startup Grind

    Startup & Venture Capital Intern

  • Prosper Sedem Balfour Ocloo

    Brand Afrik

    Founder & Chief Executive Officer

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When

When

Wednesday, December 30, 2020
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM UTC

Agenda

3:00 PMPodcast Interview

Hosts

  • Corey Hart

    Startup Grind Grand Rapids

    Chapter Director

  • Maya Heibel

    Startup Grind

    Startup & Venture Capital Intern

Organizers

  • Corey Hart, Startup Grind

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Director

  • Renee De Haan

    Equitable Advisors

    Chapter Co-director

  • Vanessa Mahoney

    Chapter Co-Director

  • Margaret Periard

    Startup & Venture Capital Intern

Global sponsor

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Dell Technologies

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