Marshall’s Senior Project – Week 5

This week I haven’t really worked much on the projects I’ve mentioned in other posts. I started my week as I mentioned at Arch Grants which is more of a startup atmosphere whereas the partnership is more corporate maybe even political environment. After returning to the partnership for the end of the week I’ve been out of the office for most of the day. On Wednesday Ginger and I went to the Gateway to Innovation Symposium at the convention center. Being there with Ginger made the experience really worth while because she’s probably one of the more popular people there and so I was introduced to a lot of cool people doing cool things, people who I wouldn’t get to meet otherwise. After G2I we went to a Brazen event at the Science Center. Brazen is a business development group dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs. I counted and I was 1 of 5 men in the room in a room of 200 but, the numbers are the other way around in the real world. Women are far less likely to get a loan from a bank and even less likely to receive venture funding at the same stages of growth as their male counterparts. Thursday I went to one of the STLVW incubators, Helix Center, to help with a tour for a group of volunteers. This week has kind of exposed me to what it’s like to be like super duper busy. 

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