SBDC Updates

By Kenneth Surbrugg, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Southern State University “Not every student will become an entrepreneur. But they will all someday need to think like one.” – John Spencer What is […]

By Kenneth Surbrugg, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Southern State University I recently taught a workshop about business planning. The main idea was to have participants think about where their business is today […]

By Kenneth Surbrugg, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Southern State University “Quality is not an act. It is a habit.” – Aristotle Quality is hard to articulate; what may be quality to one […]

By Kenneth Surbrugg, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Southern State University Theodore Roosevelt once said, “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Thomas Edison was […]

By Kenneth Surbrugg, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Southern State University The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI) defines entrepreneurship as “a self-directed pursuit of opportunities to create value for others. By creating value […]