Name: Episode 9 - Retail Pitch Day, August 10, 2016 by The RX Podcast #scaleup
Duration: 24 min 19 s
Description: Nine startups pitched five retailers August 10, 2016 - bringing the first RetailXelerator class to an amazing conclusion (but the work is hardly over). Rick Rommel, founder of RX, breaks down the past 12 weeks, as well as first RX Retail Pitch Day.

We talked with Kelly Groehler of Sprosty Network about her progression from Director of External Relations at Best Buy to her present job working in a retail startup accelerator here in the Twin Cities. Kelly tells us about how she spent time deciding what she _didn't_ want to do, which ended up being important as she made her way to the role she's in now.

After reflecting on the conversation, we found a pattern emerging in several of the conversations we've had where people we admire are doing jobs they love and finding that formal training or credentials are less important than they used to be. Kelly talks about it in this episode in regard to marketing communications, but you will also hear this in our episode about running a restaurant with Matty O'Reilly, in our episodes about getting your dream job with Tamara Dennison, about strategy with Justin Royer, about self-organizing teams with Brad Walter, faking it until you make it with Jeff Kamin, and about the amazing job you don't know you're good at yet with Dena Alspach.

Related Links:
http://www.sprosty.net/ - Sprosty Network
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellygroehler - Kelly on LinkedIn
https://twitter.com/kellygroehler - Kelly on Twitter

Related Professional Humans episodes:
http://prohumans.com/episode-23-negotiation-small-business-challenges/
http://prohumans.com/episode-28-getting-dream-job-part-1-w-tamara-dennison/
http://prohumans.com/episode-32-wtf-strategy/
http://prohumans.com/episode-26-self-organizing-teams-brad-walter/
http://prohumans.com/episode-16-fake-it-til-you-make-it/
http://prohumans.com/episode-11-the-amazing-job-you-dont-know-youre-good-at-yet/

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

Episode 33: Getting Your Dream Job Part 3: The *Not* To Do List (w/ Kelly Groehler)

Nine startups pitched five retailers August 10, 2016 - bringing the first RetailXelerator class to an amazing conclusion (but the work is hardly over). Rick Rommel, founder of RX, breaks down the past 12 weeks, as well as first RX Retail Pitch Day. 

Rick Rommel

Episode 9 - Retail Pitch Day, August 10, 2016

At RX, we curate, coach and connect the right startups with the right corporations to reach more customers and create value for their brands and businesses. We provide retail readiness coaching for startups while helping major corporations evolve and optimize how they work with startups.

Episode 9 - Retail Pitch Day, August 10, 2016

The RX Podcast #scaleup

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