CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

ON EPISODE 17 of Creative Distillation, Brad and Jeff's guest is Nels Wroe, co-founder of Longmont, Colorado's, Dry Land Distillers (drylanddistillers.com). They sample several of Dry Land's fine spirits while discussing the confluence of entrepreneurship, authenticity and the fine art of distilling.

That segment flows smoothly (see what we did there?) into Jeff and Brad's breakdown of "The New Food Truck in Town: Geographic Communities and Authenticity-Based Entrepreneurship," a paper by Todd Schifeling, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University and Daphne Demetry, Assistant Professor at McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management.

The New Food Truck In Town: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1…viT3M.twitter
 
Todd Schifeling: ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-schifeling-984b84130/ Daphne Demetry: www.linkedin.com/in/daphnedemetry/

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

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/

AcidJazz

17. Dry Land Distillers and Authenticity-Based Entrepreneurship

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

On Episode 18 of Creative Distillation, Brad and Jeff's guests are Shaz Ansari, Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Deborah Brown, Supervisor and Researcher at University of Cambridge, and Director at Mama Social. While enjoying an Au Bon Climat Pinot Noir from California, they dive deeply into Shaz and Deborah's paper, "From Patanjali to the 'gospel of sweat': yoga's remarkable transformation from a sacred movement into a thriving global market," and discuss how yoga and other movements transit from sacred exercise to global enterprise -- and whether that's a net benefit or loss. 

"From Patanjali to the 'gospel of sweat'": https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/315273/Munir-Ansari_from%20patanjali%20to%20the%20gospel%20of%20sweat.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 

Shaz Ansari: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaz-ansari-65a847/
Deborah Brown: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-brown-233b4a60/

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

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/

18. Au Bon Climat Pinot Noir and How Yoga Evolved Into a Global Industry

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

— On Episode 19 of Creative Distillation, Brad and Jeff speak with Robert Eberhart, Associate Director of Research on Entrepreneurship and Society at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Bob's also the first foreigner ever to obtain a wholesale liquor license in Japan, so it's no surprise he chose Suntory Hibiki Japanese Whiskey to facilitate their discussion of his paper, "Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Entrepreneurialism and the Changing Nature of Employment Relations." Bob, Brad and Jeff get into a freewheeling, wide-ranging conversation about the effects of entrepreneurialism on society and, specifically, how it changes our view of work and success. The episode strikes a near-perfect balance between revelation and irreverence.

Follow Bob on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RobertNEberhart

"Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Entrepreneurialism and the Changing Nature of Employment Relations": https://www.colorado.edu/business/node/16089/attachment

Robert Eberhart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reberhart/

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

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/

19. Suntory Hibiki, Entrepreneurialism and Worker "Freedom"

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 23 Twisted Pine Brewing and Stakeholder Identification in New Ventures
 On Episode 23, the Creative Distillation crew settles in at Twisted Pine Brewing in Boulder. With their expert and gracious hosts Bob Baile (owner) and Jeff Griffith (head brewer), Brad and Jeff delve deeply into the brewery's history and culture -- and 26-item beer list -- and talk about the challenges of micro-brewing, the importance of employee empowerment and community involvement, and the runaway success of their extremely spicy and award-winning Ghost Face Killah brew.

Brad and Jeff then discuss the paper "Stakeholder identification as entrepreneurial action: The social process of stakeholder enrollment in new venture emergence," (Journal of Business Venturing) which looks into the importance of new ventures identifying stakeholders (including financiers, employees, customers, suppliers and communities) through social action (aka talking to people), and how that can guide a venture's entrepreneurial imagination and development.

The paper is authored by J. Robert Mitchell (Colorado State, Western University), Trevor L. Israelsen (Univ. of Victoria), Ronald K. Mitchell (Texas Tech) and Dominic S.K. Kim (Western University).

Read the paper: https://www.ronaldmitchell.org/publications/JBV%20Mitchell%20et%20al.%202021.pdf
			
Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

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/

23. Twisted Pine Brewing and Stakeholder Identification in New Ventures

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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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 CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

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/

25. Ska Street Brewstillery and The Impact of Location Considerations on Venture Performance

On Episode 26, we try a new approach to the Creative Distillation podcast: recording in front of a live audience consisting of students enrolled in the CU Leeds School of Business Executive MBA Program. This special Creative Distillation event took place at Upslope Brewing's taproom. Without giving too much away, suffice to say that the evening and recording went exceedingly well and we look forward to making this a semi-regular occurrence.

In the first of this two-part episode, Jeff and Brad speak with Upslope Brewing founder Matt Cutter about the company's origins and Matt's journey from Project Manager in the software industry to one of the Front Range's biggest brewing success stories. 

Matt, Jeff and Brad also take questions from the Executive MBA students in attendance, further illuminating the thinking and process behind building a successful enterprise.

Learn more about Upslope Brewing: https://www.upslopebrewing.com/
			
Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.

26. Upslope Brewing and CU's Executive MBA Program (A Special Live Recording)

Podcast: Part Two of Executive MBAs Night Out Features a Private Q&A Session With Successful Entrepreneurs and Leeds’ Faculty.

Continuing with their slightly different approach to the Creative Distillation research podcast, hosts Brad Werner and Jeff York are again joined by Upslope Brewing Company founder Matt Cutter for a Q&A session with students from the inaugural Executive MBA Program at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

Set against the backdrop of Upslope Brewing’s grain auger churning in the background,  Leeds’ Executive MBAs continued to pose challenging questions, such as: what are York and Warner’s perspectives about the importance of values and support systems when starting an organization; the supply chain challenges and changes Cutter faced during COVID; and then delving into York’s research-focused and Werner’s investor-based perspectives on taking an organization from bootstrap to exit in 10 years.

Highlighting aspects of the discussions, the hosts addressed the challenges and opportunities that arise when starting an organization. Specifically, focusing on building a team, including finding the right people. This is where York and Werner differed on approaches but agreed on the importance of values.

“Incorporate your values from day one…and be open to advice” 
Warner said.

While addressing a question about supply chain management, Cutter offered an impactful story around industry wide challenges faced during COVID.
“We got to notice at the end of November that we would have to go with five truckload minimums, which is a million cans. [That’s] for one SKU; we have nine SKUs that we run year-round plus our limited releases, like the German pils[ner]. And the upper cut was a 45% price increase. Oh, wow.” Cutter said.
Listen to episode 27 of the Creative Distillation research podcast and learn more about the hosts' different perspectives. 

About the podcast
Creative Distillation is a research podcast co-hosted by Jeff York and Brad Werner, both of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. Each episode distills academic research on entrepreneurship into actionable insights. This season, the hosts connect with researchers from around the globe to discuss sustainability, yoga, cannabis, food trucks, entrepreneurship programs and accelerators.

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

27. PART 2: Upslope Brewing and CU's Executive MBA Program (A Special Live Recording)

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 28: Finkel & Garf Brewing and Brand Loyalty After an Acquisition

In this episode, hosts Jeff York and Brad Werner are joined by Griffin Bohm, a second year MBA student student from Leeds with extensive craft brewing experience, along with Dan Garfinkel, CEO and Founder of Finkel & Garf Brewing Company. The show features a sampling of Finkel & Garf beers, a conversation on the business of craft brewing and an analysis of the study titled “Watered Down: Market Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer” published in Organization Studies.

Read the paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0170840621993236

Learn more about Finkel & Garf Brewing: https://www.finkelandgarf.com/
Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://www.colorado.edu/business/deming/
			
Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

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/

28. Finkel & Garf Brewing and Brand Loyalty After an Acquisition

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 30:

For the Season 4 premiere of Creative Distillation, we travel from our Boulder base all the way to the North Pole for this live-on-location recording at the spectacular Camp Christmas. (It's actually in Lakewood, Colorado, but the lights and revery of this six-acre Yuletide experience are positively transporting.)

Your hosts, Jeff and Brad, conduct some field research at the spectacular Camp Christmas, speaking with Creator and Producer Lonnie Hanzon about the spirit of Camp Christmas -- while enjoying some of the spirits on offer there.

After that, Brad and Jeff preview what's upcoming in our thrilling Season 4, including visits to several Front Range breweries, a Halloween pumpkin beerfest, and a road trip to the Social Entrepreneurship conference in Los Angeles.

Our new format boasts shorter(ish) episodes featuring interviews with our craft beverage-making hosts, alternating with discussions of the most current (and fascinating) entrepreneurship research with leading researchers from across the globe.

We've got a new theme song performed by none other than your humble hosts, Jeff and Brad.

And did we mention we're dropping episodes weekly? Because we are, every Thursday.

It's a brand new season of Creative Distillation and we couldn't be more excited.

Camp Christmas in Lakewood, Colorado, is open through Christmas Eve. Tickets are available at https://camp-christmas.com. 

Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: www.colorado.edu/business/deming/

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.

- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship . Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

Whiskey Before Breakfast

30. Camp Christmas and Season 4 Preview

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 31: Beyond the Mountain Brewing

This week on Creative Distillation, Brad and Jeff conduct field research at Beyond the Mountain Brewing in Gunbarrel, Colorado, sitting down with brewery co-founder Chuck Hixon to talk about beer, the story behind Beyond the Mountain -- and Phish.

Learn more about Beyond the Mountain and order merch at https://beyondthemountainbrewing.com.

Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship 
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. 
Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

31. Beyond the Mountain Brewing

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 36: Meet the Deming Center Team

This week on Creative Distillation, we're still at Wild Provisions Beer Project in Boulder, Colorado, where Brad and Jeff introduce you to the team at the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Research at CU-Boulder. It's a small but hardworking and incredibly capable team dedicated to providing CU students with the education, training and resources to realize their startup dreams.

Learn more about the Deming Center staff at https://www.colorado.edu/business/deming/about-us/staff

Learn more about Wild Provisions and order merch at https://wildprovisionsbeer.com.

Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

36. Meet the Deming Center Team

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 43: Sophie Bacq (Indiana) and Tom Lumpkin (Oklahoma) on Civic Wealth Creation (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our Hi Def Brewing recording session. This time, Brad and Jeff speak with Sophie Bacq (on a 3-episode streak!) and Tom Lumpkin, Prof Emeritus of Entrepreneurship from Oklahoma University and a Senior Visiting Research Assoc at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Theirs is one of the many productive collaborations that result from entrepreneurship conferences. Since meeting over a decade ago, they’ve collaborated on several papers which they discuss here, including their most recent work, Communities at the Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Societal Impact: A Cross-Disciplinary Literature Review. The paper looks at the civic wealth created by socialization, and how entrepreneurship and business play a critical role in bringing together communities to bring about social change. 

Enjoy and cheers. 

Learn more about Hi Def Brewing and order merch at: https://hidefbrewing.com

Learn more about Sophie Bacq on her faculty page at https://kelley.iu.edu, and find more info about Tom Lumpkin on his faculty page at https://ou.edu/price. 

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

43. Sophie Bacq (Indiana) & Tom Lumpkin (Oklahoma) on Civic Wealth Creation (LA Road Trip!)

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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[SPECIAL EPISODE] Beer Here!: A Brew-Centric Panel Discussion at the Museum of Boulder

As part of their exhibit, Beer Here!: Brewing In the New West, the Museum of Boulder invited Creative Distillation to record a panel discussion in front of a live audience at the museum "speakeasy." 

Jeff and Brad assembled a lineup of local brewers to discuss their inspirations, challenges and successes the state of Colorado microbrewing, and the incredible sense of camaraderie Colorado's brewers share. All of this while they walk Brad and Jeff through at 10-beer tasting. 

Our featured panelists:

-- Casey LeFever, Front of House and HR Director at 4Noses Brewing (4nosesbrewing.com)
-- Chris Coin, co-founder and Chief of Brewing Operations at Sanitas Brewing (sanitasbrewing.com)
-- Rick Holt, Co-Founder and Head Brewer at Kokopelli Beer Company (Colorado’s first solely woman-owned and operated brewpub) (kokopellibeerco.com)

Whether you're a hophead, an entrepreneur or both, this is your dream episode.

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

[SPECIAL EPISODE] Beer Here!: A Brew-Centric Panel Discussion at the Museum of Boulder

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 47: Andrea Prado (INCAE) on Venture Creation and Growth in Low-Income Markets (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our LA Road Trip with the last of three interviews recorded during a now-legendary outdoor cocktail reception at the Social Entrepreneurship conference hosted by the USC's Marshall School of Business. 

Brad and Jeff speak with Andrea Prado, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at INCAE Business School in San Jose, Costa Rica. They talk about her latest paper, “Serving rural low-income markets through a social entrepreneurship approach: Venture creation and growth”, published in 2022 in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and looking at how to bring products and services to low income rural communities in developing countries. If you think the answer is to give everything away, you’ll be surprised by her findings.

At some point, Indiana University’s Sophie Bock, Social Entrepreneurship Conference co-coordinator and friend of the podcast, and Julienne Shields, President and CEO of USASBE, the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, crash the party, bringing their own interesting takes to the conversation and making a good time truly great.

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more about Andrea Prado on her INCAE faculty page at https://www.incae.edu/es/directorio/andrea-prado.html

Read her paper: “Serving rural low-income markets through a social entrepreneurship approach: Venture creation and growth”, published in 2022 in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1442

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

47: Andrea Prado (INCAE) on Venture Creation and Growth in Low-Income Markets (LA Road Trip!)

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

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EPISODE 53: Ted Waldron (Texas Tech) on The Battle for Balcones Distilling

Previously on Creative Distillation: Brad and Jeff conducted field research at Dry Land Distillers in Longmont, Colorado, speaking with Nels Wroe, founder and president of Dry Land. They discussed the challenges and successes of running a distillery, and what makes Dry Land unique among Colorado’s many distillers.

This time, we’re still at Dry Land Distillers, with Brad and Jeff talking to the “whiskey academic,” Ted Waldron, Professor of Management and the Kent R. Hance Regents Chair in Entrepreneurship at Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business. They discuss a number of topics and go off on several tangents, mostly related to Ted’s recent paper, "Entrepreneur-investor rivalry over new venture control: The battle for Balcones Distilling," published in 2022 in the Journal of Business Venturing.

Enjoy and cheers!

We hope you enjoyed this episode of Creative Distillation, recorded on location at Dry Land Distillers in Longmont, Colorado. Learn more and order merch at drylanddistillers.com.  

Read Ted’s paper, "Entrepreneur-investor rivalry over new venture control: The battle for Balcones Distilling," at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902622000374

Learn more about Ted Waldron at https://www.depts.ttu.edu/rawlsbusiness/people/faculty/management/ted-waldron/index.php.

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

53: Ted Waldron (Texas Tech) on The Battle for Balcones Distilling

Previously on Creative Distillation, Brad and Jeff took a drive up to Ft. Collins to speak with Katie Wallace, Head of ESG at New Belgium Brewing. They discussed the history and impact of this historic microbrewery while sampling some of their fine brews — including the updated recipe for the iconic Fat Tire Ale. 

They were joined by Thomas J. Dean, Tinberg Business for a Better World University Professor at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, who’s a big fan and friend of New Belgium, as well as our guest for this episode. 

Katie stays with us for a little bit, for a fascinating discussion about “selling out vs selling in”, something New Belgium knows a lot about. It’s also the topic of Tom’s paper: Lost Battles, Trojan Horses, Open Gates, and Wars Won: How Entrepreneurial Firms Co-Create Structures to Expand and Infuse Their Sustainability Missions in the Acquisition Process

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more and order merch at newbelgium.com.

Learn more about Thomas J. Dean on his faculty page at Colorado State University’s College of Business. https://biz.colostate.edu/about/directory/colostate-tomd 

Find Thomas’ paper in the Academy of Management Journal. Check the show notes for a link. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amp.2017.0133


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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

61: Thomas J. Dean (CSU) on Selling Out vs. Selling In

This time on Creative Distillation, Brad and Jeff conduct field research at one of our more interesting — and favorite — locations to date. Pits & Stems is an actual speakeasy tucked away in a quiet Old North Boulder neighborhood. 

The owner and sole proprietor, Ethan Decker, walks our hosts through the brief and colorful history of his garage-based passion project, regaling them with fascinating tales and some of the finest cocktails ever sipped on Creative Distillation — and that’s a lot of cocktails.

They’re also joined by Larry Plummer, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario. He earned his Ph.D. in strategy and entrepreneurship right here at CU- Boulder. 

It’s a lively and slightly-enlightening conversation and a real feel-good episode from start to finish.

Enjoy and cheers!

Pits & Stems has no website, but you can find it on Google Maps. Reservations are required.

Learn more about Ethan Decker's "day job" as founder and president of Applied Brand Science: https://appliedbrandscience.com/

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

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Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

62: Ethan Decker, Owner & Sole Proprietor, Pits & Stems

For our final episode of Season 5, Brad and Jeff conduct field research at The Rayback Collective - affectionately known as “Boulder’s backyard.”

They open by introducing Emily Iliff, a CU senior and Creative Distillation’s new Marketing Director. After meeting Emily, Brad and Jeff each share their Top 5 Creative Distillation episodes of all time. It’s an excellent and entertaining look back that also serves as a great introduction to the podcast for new listeners. 

After reviewing their favorite episodes, Brad and Jeff offer their final impressions of Season 5, and take a look forward at what’s in store for an exciting Season 6.

All of that, plus beer and a whole lot of kids in the background, as we wrap up Season 5 of Creative Distillation. 

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more about the Rayback Collective at therayback.com

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

66: All-Time Top 5 Episode Countdown + Season 5 Wrap / Season 6 Preview

Here’s another episode from the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held at Boulder’s beautiful Chautauqua Park in June 2024. This time, Brad and Jeff speak with Jennifer and Dev Jennings. Both are professors in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Alberta’s School of Business. They also happen to be the first married couple to appear on Creative Distillation.

While enjoying a crisp Prosecco on the porch of the Chautauqua Mission House, Jen and Dev talk about a paper they’ve co-written which looks at how starting a business with one’s romantic partner tends to lead to stereotypical gender roles translating from the marriage into the business, requiring a special kind of work life balancing to truly succeed.

Then Jen tells us about her recent paper examining the gender gap in entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and how that plays out in terms of investor confidence, the ability to learn and adapt, and, ultimately, a venture’s success. The results may surprise you.

All of that and more, in this episode of Creative Distillation.

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded on the front porch of the Chautauqua Mission House at the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024.

Jen’s paper, “Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence,” was published in June 2022 in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Check the show notes for a link. 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10422587221102108

Learn more about Jennifer Jennings on her faculty page at the University of Alberta website. https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jjenning

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

69: Jennifer & Dev Jennings (Alberta): Prosecco and The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence

We pick up where we left off before our annual holiday episode: on the front porch of the Chautauqua Mission House at the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024. This time around, Brad and Jeff are joined by: 

— Ben Waterhouse, Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill
— Katie Brownell, Asst Prof of Management at Virginia Tech
— and the omni-present Bob Eberhart, Associate Professor of Management at the University of San Diego, founder of the Reversing the Arrow conference, and frequent guest on the podcast

Katie sets the tone for the proceedings by stopping by with a bottle of State 38 Bourbon, distilled just down the road in Golden, CO. It’s the perfect accompaniment to a lively conversation about the intersection of history and business, sparked by Ben’s book, “One Day I’ll Work for Myself,” an examination of the (predominantly American) dream of self-employment — and its not-so-dreamy history. 

Ben notes that, in the last century, the American business ideal has trended from centering the collective good to shifting that burden to the individual by glorifying “going it alone,” leading to today’s gig economy and “DIY” entrepreneurial ethos — and putting particular pressure on today’s business students.

This topic falls right into the Creative Distillation wheelhouse, as it’s a long running theme on the podcast that starting a business isn’t for everyone — but that entrepreneurship isn’t just about starting a business. 

All of our guests agree that whether they use them to start a business or not, the skills entrepreneurship students develop — independent thinking, communication, creativity, and problem-solving — will set them up for success regardless of the undertaking, and are exactly what hiring managers are looking for these days.

It’s a fascinating meeting of brilliant business and history minds.

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded on the front porch of the Chautauqua Mission House at the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024.

Ben Waterhouse’s book, One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America, is available from your favorite bookseller. Learn more about Ben on his faculty page at the UNC-Chapel Hill website. 
https://history.unc.edu/faculty-members/benjamin-waterhouse/

Learn more about Katie Brownell on her faculty page at the Virginia Tech website. 
https://management.pamplin.vt.edu/faculty/directory/brownell-katrina.html

Learn more about State 38 Distilling at https://state38.com.

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

74: Waterhouse(UNC)/Brownell(VTech)/Eberhard(USD) on State 38 Bourbon & Entrepreneurship's History

Our series from the Reversing the Arrow conference, held in June 2024 at Boulder’s Chautauqua Park, continues with a Lightning Round, in which each of our three guests talk about their recent published research in less than 45(ISH) minutes — all while enjoying a refreshing summer saisson from Denver’s TRVE Brewing.

Virginia Tech Assistant Professor of Management Katie Brownell leads off with The Triad Divided, a paper examining how certain types of narcissism can actually be beneficial in certain entrepreneurial settings.

Then, returning Creative Distillation guest Beth Embry, Assistant Professor in the Management and Entrepreneurship Academic Area at the University of Kansas, talks about trauma’s impact on the workplace, a subject explored in her paper, If the Body Keeps the Score.

Seungah Lee, Policy Adviser, Consultant and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizations from HEC-Paris, closes out the episode by discussing the findings from Entrepreneurship For All?, her study of the rise of global entrepreneurship since 1950.

All in all, we think you’ll find our lightning round to be…electrifying.

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded on the front porch of the Chautauqua Mission House at the Reversing the Arrow Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024.

Learn more about TRVE Brewing Co. and order merch at trvebrewing.com

Learn more about Katie Brownell on her faculty page at the Virginia Tech website. (https://management.pamplin.vt.edu/faculty/directory/brownell-katrina.html). 
Her paper, The Triad Divided: A Curvilinear Mediation Model Linking Founder Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy to New Venture Performance, was published in the January 2024 issue of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 
(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs 10.1177/10422587231173684) 

Learn more about Beth Embry on her faculty page at the University of Kansas website (https://business.ku.edu/people/elizabeth-embry)
Her paper, If the Body Keeps the Score, What Happens When You Bring the Body to Work? Exploring the Health Effects of Trauma on Human Capital, was published in the September 2024 issue of Business & Society 
(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00076503241271180)

And, last but not least, learn more about Seungah Lee on her faculty page at HEC-Paris (https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/lee-seungahsarah)
Her paper, Entrepreneurship for all? The rise of a global “entrepreneurship for development” agenda, 1950–2021, was published in the June 2023 issue of World Development 
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X2300044X)


75: "Lightning Round" with Katie Brownell (VaTech)/Beth Embry (KU)/Seungah Lee (HEC Paris) and TRVE Brewing's Summer Saisson

On this episode recorded in June 2024 at the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference in Boulder, Brad and Jeff speak with Jay Habegger, a CU grad now pursuing his PhD at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Jay’s story is unique because, after over 20 years as an entrepreneur and two-time founder, he’s now studying entrepreneurship and trying to contribute to our understanding of it.

As they enjoy a light and refreshing Upslope German Pilsner, Jay tells Brad and Jeff about his research, which focuses on the regional distribution of venture capital, and tries to explain why differences exist between finding investors in the “Big 3” hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston) where one-half of all equity financing  transactions happen -- and the rest of the country.

Jay’s research asks: are these transactions equal? It turns out, they are not. Outside of the hubs, it’s a steeper search challenge to find investors; most financing involves less money and takes longer to find; and non-hub companies must often deal with a different investor type than they’d find within the hub.

The upshot of the research is, no matter where the company is located, it must still “show up” by embedding itself in the networks trafficking in the capital they seek. As we learn, that may seem like a pretty obvious concept, but it’s easily overlooked by a lot of companies. 

Jay, Brad and Jeff are here to point it out to them. 

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded during the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024.

Learn more about Upslope Brewing at upslopebrewing.com. 

Find out more about Jay Habegger on his page at the University of Maryland website (DON’T READ https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/millard-jay-habegger) 

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu



81 Jay Habegger (Maryland): Upslope German Pilsner and Regional Distribution of Venture Capital


This episode, our last from “GURK,” the Global Enterepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference held in Boulder in June 2024, features a conversation with another one of Jeff’s academic heroes and GURK founder, Mike Lenox. He's a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, of which Jeff is an alum. Mike’s influence helped Jeff focus his interest on CleanTech entrepreneurship, and the two have published several papers together.

Our bartender today is none other than Brad, who mixes his signature Manhattan while Jeff and Mike reminisce a bit about their Darden days before getting into more serious discussion about how clean entrepreneurship bridges our dichotomous political chasm on climate change. In cases where new clean tech demonstrates superior effectiveness over carbon-intensive technologies, the markets do their thing and the clean tech wins.

They also poke holes in the Panacea Hypothesis, which holds that entrepreneurship alone will solve all the world’s problems. Mike, Jeff and Brad concur that it’s really the interaction between markets and the policy that guides them that’s the key.

Whether it’s big issues like climate change, or AI — which our conversation also touches upon — Mike firmly believes that — especially in today’s fractured political climate — “extreme centrism” is the way forward. Our discussants agree that embracing and understanding the world’s complexity in order to solve big issues is the fundamental role of today’s entrepreneur. 

Unsurprisingly, they also agree that Brad’s Manhattans are excellent.

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded during the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference, held in Boulder in June 2024.

Unfortunately, there’s no link to Brad’s Manhattans, but here's that recipe for the Raymond Hale. It looks pretty tasty.

The Raymond Hale:

2 parts bourbon
1 part elderflower
1 part lemon
top with ginger beer

Learn more about Mike Lenox on his faculty page at UVA’s Darden School of Business (https://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-lenox)

Mike’s two clean tech books, “Can Business Save the Earth” and “The Decarbonization Imperative,” can be purchased from his website, michael-lenox.com

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

82: Mike Lenox (UVA): Brad’s Manhattans and “Extreme Centrism”

Season 6 closes on a strong note, with a panel discussion held in front of a live audience during Boulder Startup Week. This recording just happened to take place on the 13th anniversary of the opening of T|Aco, the downtown Boulder staple that graciously hosted this lively, illuminating and fun conversation. 

Our panelists represent a wide swath of the Boulder entrepreneurial eco-system:

•Stan Hickory, Director of CU’s Research & Innovation Office
•Peter Waters, co-founder and owner of T|Aco
•Davin Helden from Lafayette’s Liquid Mechanics Brewing — a proud sponsor of Creative Distillation and provider of this session’s tasty beverages
•Brad Feld, a partner at Foundry, co-founder at Techstars and an icon of Boulder’s startup community

Unsurprisingly, the discussion touches on a number of topics including:

* how Boulder having so many different startup communities (such as food, beer and tech) promotes cross-pollination between these communities, and provides more fertile ground for all
* the ways the post-covid “new normal” of empty downtown office space has fragmented the community and poses a threat to the local businesses catering to a dwindling population of office workers
* CU’s role in the Boulder startup eco-system, primarily by planting seeds of the entrepreneurial mindset that can help businesses of all types, and also as a talent pipeline producing rock star students ready to immediately contribute to a startup’s growth and scale
* the importance of finding the right investor
* startup communities as an essential component of a vibrant city

The conversation is underpinned throughout by Boulder’s unique and very real “Give First” ethos. It’s not just caring about the startup community; it’s the way we care about each other that makes Boulder special.

All of that, plus Jeff’s brief, tantalizing preview of Season 7. Bust out your aloha shirts, friends. It’s tiki time!

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded in front of a live audience at T|Aco in downtown Boulder. Learn more at tacocolorado.com.

Learn more about Liquid Mechanics at liquidmechanicsbrewing.com

Find out what Stan Hickory's up to at https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/stan-hickory

Connect with Peter Waters at https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterwaters/

Find Davin Helden at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davin-helden-a4bb174/

Follow Brad Feld at https://feld.com/

And thank you again for showing up for another season of Creative Distillation. We appreciate you and look forward to seeing you back here for Season 7. Happy summer, everybody!

83: Season Finale: Liquid Mechanics Beer and Boulder Start Up Week Panel Live at T|Aco

Season 7 of Creative Distillation opens with a special dispatch from the palm trees: it’s Tiki Time with Jeff, an exploration of the history, legends, entrepreneurial exploits and — of course, the cocktails, yes, the cocktails — of the tiki tradition. 

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On today’s episode, we gather at the seriously secret Tiki Dungeon, where Jeff mixes up a round of Mai Tais and then fills us in on the roots of tiki — a tradition that has endured for nearly a century. He also describes his inspiration behind launching the Tiki Time with Jeff segment, and explains to Brad his vision for an undertaking that ends with Brad publishing his first paper. There are many steps along the way, each of which will be illuminating for anyone curious about — or preparing to begin — the process of writing a paper. 

The episode concludes with a round of Zombies.

Check the show notes of each Tiki Time segment for info on the featured establishments, characters and cocktails discussed. 

We hope this added element to the Creative Distillation universe brings something useful to your life as well. Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Tiki Time with Jeff, a special, semi-occurring production of Creative Distillation, was recorded at Jeff’s secluded Tiki Dungeon.

Scroll down for the recipes for this episode's featured cocktails. We strongly encourage you to try these at home.

Learn more about and order "Smugglers Cover: Exotic Cocktails, Rum and the Cult of Tiki," by Martin and Rebecca Cate, through our Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4mmOHPK

Thanks for listening to this inaugural episode of Tiki Time With Jeff. We'd love to hear what you think. Stay tuned to Creative Distillation for more actionable insights and tropical-themed fun. 

Mai Tai

1 oz. Holmes Cay Réunion Island Rum Traditionnel (https://www.holmescay.com/reunion-island-rum-traditionnel/)
1 oz. Low ester Jamaican Rum
1 oz. Fresh squeezed lime juice
½ oz. Orange Curacao (dry style)
¼ oz. Orgeat ¼ oz. Rock Candy Syrup or Rich Simple Syrup*
Fresh mint for garnish 
*Double the Orgeat if omitting Rock Candy Syrup 
Shake all of the ingredients with 2 scoops of crushed ice for around 10 seconds.
Pour unstrained into a double Old Fashioned glass. Sink the spent lime shell in the glass, then slap a bunch of mint gently before garnishing to release its oils.

Zombie

Serving: 1
3/4 ounce lime juice
1/4 ounce grapefruit juice
1/4 ounce Smuggler's Cove cinnamon syrup 
1 teaspoon Smuggler's Cove grenadine 
1/2 ounce velvet falernum, preferably John D. Taylor's
1 1/2 ounces blended aged rum
1 1/2 ounces column still aged rum
1 ounce black blended overproof rum
2 dashes Herbstura
12 ounces crushed ice
Garnish: mint sprig

DIRECTIONS
1    Combine all ingredients in a drink mixer tin with 4 to 6 standard "agitator" ice cubes.
2    Pulse for three to four seconds to aerate, dilute and chill the drink while leaving much of the ice intact.
3    Pour into Zombie or highball glass allowing most of the contents into the glass before using a gated finish to ensure the entire drink fits in the serving glass.
4    Garnish with a mint sprig.

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Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

84: [Season 7 Premiere!] Tiki Time with Jeff: A Primer

For this episode we convene at Jungle, a Boulder rum bar and burger shack inspired by the Tiki tradition. Jeff, as you learned in our Season 7 premiere, is an avid tiki afficionado, and here he lets his passion for big fruity drinks and the culture and lore behind them stand out like the loudest aloha shirt.

Sadly, Brad was unable to join us at Jungle, but we’re fortunate to have Jeff’s good friend and colleague, Andrew Nelson, Professor of Management at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist School of Business, where he’s also the Academic Director of Lundquist’s Center for Entrepreneurship. This “battle of  entrepreneurship center directors” begins with Jeff and Andrew breaking down the flavor profile of Jungle’s signature (and rather strong) Mai Tai. 

Jeff brings up the importance of studying all aspects of entrepreneurship, not just the headline-grabbing, venture-funded endeavors. They agree that the bigger story of entrepreneurship is how one can turn their passion into a business, and use entrepreneurship as a tool for having a good life.

This segues into a discussion about Andrew’s latest published paper, which traces the competition between Hammond and Everett (maker of the Orgatron) to bring an electric organ to market back in 1935. While the Orgatron mimicked the pipe organ remarkably well, it was too close to the real thing, leaving little space for innovation, whereas the organ-like Hammond could be used to create innovative sounds. It eventually evolved into the Hammond B3, an instrument still ubiquitous to any keyboardist’s arsenal. 

Funny how the Orgatron never really caught on…

Enjoy and cheers! 
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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded at Jungle in downtown Boulder. Learn more at jungletiki.com.

Learn more about Andrew J. Nelson on his faculty page at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist School of Business. https://business.uoregon.edu/directory/faculty-staff/all/ajnelson)

Read Andrew’s paper, “Even Better Than the Real Thing: Electronic Organs and the Dilemma of Product Mimicry” in the June 2025 issue of Strategic Management Journal. https://sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3704)

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Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu



CDEP 85: Andrew Nelson (OR): Jungle Mai Tais and the Optimal Distinctiveness of Electric Organs


This is our first true Tiki Time with Jeff episode, recorded earlier in 2025 -- and months before our Tiki Time with Jeff Primer was recorded (see episode 84). 

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This one was recorded on location at the Lotus Lounge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jeff and his special guests, LSU professor “Tiki” Ted Waldron and PhD student Sonya Strano, speak with CC Pike, the Beverage Director at Lotus Lounge. She walks them through the Lotus Lounge’s fascinating history — and samples of several of their signature drinks, including:

Mai Tai
Lychee on the Beachee
Missionary’s Downfall

The conversation touches upon the origins of the Tiki tradition and a rich description of the Lotus Lounge’s interior decor, as well as the community aspect of tiki bars, and the social environment they create.

It’s another fun — though sadly, Bradless episode — of Tiki Time with Jeff.

Enjoy and cheers!

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You’ve been listening to Tiki Time with Jeff, a special, semi-occurring production of Creative Distillation. This episode was recorded on location at Lotus Lounge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Follow them on Instagram and Facebook @drink.lotus.

Check the show notes to learn more about and order the Smugglers Cover book. That’s also where you’ll find the recipes for some of this episode’s featured cocktails

Our annual fall special is up next in the Creative Distillation lineup. We’ll be back at the Lotus Lounge after that for a fuller, slightly more tiki-ed discussion with Ted Waldron about his latest research. 

Until then, thanks for listening to Tiki Time with Jeff! Much aloha to all!

Learn more about Ted Waldron on his faculty page at Louisiana State University’s Ourso School of Business (DON’T READ: https://lsu.edu/business/directory/employee-profiles/waldron-ted-sdeis.php)

Ultimate Mai Tai by Kevin Crossman 
1 oz Lime Juice
½ oz Orgeat (Latitude 29)
¼ oz Demerara Syrup (BG Reynolds or Liber)
½ oz Orange Curacao (Ferrand Dry Curacao or Clement Créole Shrubb)
½ oz Appleton 12 Rum
½ oz Smith & Cross Rum
½ oz Planteray (Plantation) OFTD Rum
½ oz Planteray (Plantation) Xaymaca Rum
Garnish with Mint Sprig and spent Lime shell

Missionary's Downfall (from the Total Tiki App)
Makes 2 cocktails
1/2 oz fresh lime juice 
1/2 oz peach brandy 
1 oz honey mix (honey simple syrup) 
1 oz light rum [I used White 'Stach] 
2 oz (1/4 cup) diced fresh pineapple 
2 oz (1/4 cup) fresh mint leaves, tightly packed [I did it by weight] 
6 oz (3/4 cup) crushed ice 
Blend in a blender until smooth - about 20 seconds on high. Pour into a chilled coupe.
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Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

CDEP 86: Tiki Time with Jeff: Lotus Lounge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana with guest Ted Waldron (LSU)

This episode finds us once again talking to LSU Professor of Entrepreneurship and Information Sciences, Ted Waldron, over tiki drinks at the magnificent Lotus Lounge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jeff visited the site to conduct further field research for Creative Distillation’s recurring Season 7 podcast-within-a-podcast, Tiki Time With Jeff.

While talk of tiki is never far away, the bulk of this conversation relates to one of Ted’s most recent published papers:  More than money: The complex dynamics of capital and power in entrepreneur–investor relationships. Though Brad’s not with us for this episode, we’re quite sure he’d strongly approve of that title, as it actually clearly describes what the paper is about — a rare occurrence in academic publishing. 

Ted and his co-authors aim to illustrate through their research that financial capital is not the only source of power in the entrepreneur-investor dynamic. They investigate and identify seven different types of capital that can provide the bearer as much say-so and influence as money. Knowledge and reputation are two examples.

It’s a fun episode, and how could it not be with the engaging rapport between Jeff and “Tiki Ted”, the additional voice of LSU PhD student Sonya Strano — who valiantly fills in for Brad — and another round of tiki drinks for all.

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded at Lotus Lounge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Follow them on Instagram and Facebook @drink.lotus

Learn more about Ted Waldron on his faculty page at Louisiana State University’s Ourso School of Business https://lsu.edu/business/directory/employee-profiles/waldron-ted-sdeis.php

Read Ted’s paper, More than money: The complex dynamics of capital and power in entrepreneur–investor relationships, in the May 2025 issue of Academy of Management Perspectives. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amp.2023.0223)

Learn more about Sonia Strano on her page at Ourso School of Business website. https://www.lsu.edu/business/directory/employee-profiles/strano-sonia.php
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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu


87: Ted Waldron (LSU) on The Complex Dynamics of Capital and Power in Entrepreneur–Investor Relationships

This week we revisit an episode that revisits several previous episodes; call it a Creative Distillation Rewind. 

Originally recorded at the Rayback Collective as Episode #66, Jeff and Brad take a look back at their Top 5 episodes to date. Whiskey washing away the research; Producer Joel being attacked by rats; and lots of pumpkin beer — those greatest hits are all included here, plus vivid recaps of just some of the amazing research that’s been presented on Creative Distillation.

So pop in your earbuds, pour yourself a drink, sit back, relax and rewind to this special episode of Creative Distillation. Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded on location at the Rayback Collective in Boulder, Colorado. For more info visit therayback.com.
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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu


88: Creative Distillation Rewind: Rayback Collective Beer and Brad and Jeff's Top 5 Episodes

It seems like forever since we’ve had Jeff AND Brad on the same episode, hunkered down in a dimly lit bar, discussing entrepreneurship research over cocktails. As such, we’re delighted to have them reunited at long last at Nora’s, an honest-to-goodness speakeasy located a couple flights of stairs beneath downtown Louisville, CO. 	

Joined by guest academic researcher Nan Jia, Brad and Jeff speak with Jordan Leggett, Bar Lead and Mad Scientist at Nora’s. Jordan walks us through a trio of her innovative concoctions as she explains her creative approach to bartending. 

These libations, including a scotch cocktail with pumpkin puree and a tequila-based old-fashioned, are some of the most inventive and delicious creations we’ve encountered on Creative Distillation — and that’s saying something.

The conversation also features a Tiki Time check-in with Jeff, touches on testing new recipes, and asks whether ChatGPT is a good bartender (spoiler: it’s not). Thanks to Jordan at Nora’s for an illuminating — and perfectly dimly lit — discussion. 

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded at Nora’s in Louisville, Colorado. Follow them on Instagram @norasplacelouisville, and learn more at noras.place.

We’ll return from the holidays, still at Nora’s, for a deep dive with Nan Jia into her recent research on AI and productivity. 

Stay tuned for our next episode, the last of 2025, where we return to Dry Land Distillers to enjoy some holiday cheer with our favorite fall guest, CU’s Ethan Poskanzer.
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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu

89: Jordan Leggett, Bar Lead and Mad Scientist at Nora’s Speakeasy

In what’s quickly becoming an annual holiday tradition at Creative Distillation, we return to one of our favorite research locations: Dry Land Distillers in Longmont, Colorado. It’s our third on-location recording (plus one on Zoom during Covid), making Dry Land our most-visited venue, and puts its founder, Nels Wroe, in contention for most frequent Creative Distillation guest. Further adding to the holiday vibes, we’re joined by another favorite fall guest, CU’s Ethan Poskanzer.

As he guides us through three of Dry Land’s featured offerings, Nels catches us up on the state of the Front Range hospitality scene. The takeaway is that local businesses are what makes our community a community, times are tough for them, and it’s incumbent upon us to support them, especially during the holiday season.

We get a chance to try a contender from Dry Land’s annual Nog Off, and then Jeff breaks out his own bottle of homemade eggnog with a tiki twist. One was distinctly better than the other, but Jeff’s was quite good too.

All of that, plus some final thoughts for 2025 and holiday wishes, and Jeff reminds us of some of the ghosts of podcasts past.

Enjoy and cheers!

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This episode of Creative Distillation was recorded at Dry Land Distillers in Longmont, Colorado. Follow them on Instagram @drylanddistillers, and get more info at drylanddistillers.com

After the holidays, we’ll return to Dry Land for a fuller conversation around Ethan’s latest research on truth and moral flexibility in American politics.

Until then, Happy Holidays and New Year from all of us at Creative Distillation. We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast as much as we enjoy making it. Thanks, as always, for tuning in.

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at CDpodcast@colorado.edu.

Thanks for listening.
- An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs

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CREATIVE DISTILLATION

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu


90: Nels Wroe, Founder, Dry Land Distillers

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.
CREATIVE DISTILLATION
Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director jeffrey.york@colorado.edu
Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director walter.werner@colorado.edu
Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business 303.492.9018 | deming@colorado.edu
— Our academic guest for this episode is:
Erick Mueller, Executive Director, Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU's Leeds School of Business
 This episode was recorded during Boulder Startup Week 2020 as a "takeover" of the Boulder Tech Podcast (bouldertechpodcast.com), which is produced by Joel Davis, who's also the producer of this podcast. You'll hear Joel's voice in this episode of well. 

Today's discussion isn't connected to any specific research, but rather focuses on the relationship between the University of Colorado and the Boulder tech/startup/business community.

An Analog Digital Arts Production 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/

07. Creative Distillation Takes Over Boulder Tech Podcast w/Erick Mueller, CU Deming Ctr Exec Dir

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