Entrepreneurship at Work with Tim Wise

Season 2 Episode 40 

Entrepreneurship at Work with Tim Wise

• Host
  • Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Guest:
  • Tim Wise, Advisory Council Member, Faber Entrepreneurship Center

Tim Wise is a serial entrepreneur, USC alumnus, and founding member of the Advisory Council for the Faber Entrepreneurship Center at the Darla Moore School of Business. A third-generation Gamecock with degrees in Finance, Real Estate, and Law, Tim began his career at Nelson Mullins before launching into entrepreneurship. In 2001, he co-founded Advocate, a technology business management firm built through disciplined bootstrapping, customer focus, and sustainable growth, leading to successful exits first to private equity and later to Accenture. Now devoted to giving back, Tim leverages his decades of entrepreneurial experience to inspire and guide USC students, encouraging them to embrace risk, resilience, and creativity as they pursue their own entrepreneurial journeys.

Topics include:

• Entrepreneurial spirit of finding something you can do better
• Avoiding risk with a continuous consumer market
• Getting to dollar one as fast as you can
• Bootstrapping allows for ability to listen and react to market
• Keeping yourself ahead of debt
• Tim’s companies V shaped dip during financial crisis of 2008
• Process of selling developed company
• Rebranding company for a position of sale & exiting strategy
• Offering opportunity and experience in Faber Entrepreneurship Center
• Getting students to consider themselves entrepreneurs
• Connection between liberty and entrepreneurship

To learn more about Tim Wise, click here.

To learn more about the Faber Entrepreneurship Center, click here.

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