420: Entrepreneur's Lifecycle with Jane Allen
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The stages of the entrepreneur's lifecycle and journey with Jane Allen. Jane also shares her personal story, from attorney to business owner and now the CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The Nashville Entrepreneur Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs with the resources needed to increase their probability for success at any stage.
Henry Lopez is the host of The How of Business podcast – helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business and entrepreneurs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.4 | And now, here is your host. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. |
| 0:17.7 | This is Henry Lopez. |
| 0:18.8 | And my guest today is Jane Allen. |
| 0:21.3 | Jane, welcome to the show. Oh guest today is Jane Allen. Jane, |
| 0:27.3 | welcome to the show. Oh, thank you, Henry. Well, we're going to chat about Jane's journey and her business experiences and then her insights on the stages of an entrepreneurial journey. |
| 0:33.7 | That'll make a little bit more sense here when we learn that she is the CEO of the Nashville |
| 0:39.4 | Entrepreneur Center. But if you want to receive more information about the Howa Business, |
| 0:44.5 | including links to the show notes page for this episode, and how you can continue to support |
| 0:48.9 | my show and receive exclusive content and discounts through a Patreon membership, |
| 0:56.4 | please visit The Howab business.com. |
| 1:01.8 | So let me tell you a little bit more about Jane Allen. Jane Allen is an entrepreneur and founder of the council on call, which is today known as pronounce that for me, Jane, if you will. |
| 1:07.1 | I should have asked you before we started, but how do you pronounce that name now? |
| 1:10.7 | Yes, legility. Legility. That's what I thought, but I didn't want to guess there. So Council on Call, |
| 1:15.8 | which is now today known as Legility and Hannah Clark, a women's handbag manufacturer and retailer. |
| 1:23.6 | And she's the CEO, as I mentioned, of Nashville Entrepreneur Center, a nonprofit organization |
| 1:29.8 | dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs with the resources needed to increase their probability |
| 1:36.0 | for success at any stage. Since taking over her role at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, |
| 1:42.7 | which they referred to as the EC back in October of |
| 1:45.9 | 2019, Jane's experience in taking a business from the idea phase to a fully scaled successful |
| 1:52.7 | company has proven key in helping strengthen the EC's role as a significant support system |
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