{"id":127740,"date":"2020-02-03T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=127740"},"modified":"2020-02-03T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:37:24","slug":"speaker-named-for-entrepreneur-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/02\/03\/speaker-named-for-entrepreneur-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker named for Entrepreneur Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A speaker has been named for the upcoming Entrepreneur Workshop, which will be held at the Kenn-Feld Group, 10305 Liberty-Union Road in Van Wert, starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, February 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Simon-Burrow-promo-pic-2-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127743\"\/><figcaption><strong>California entrepreneur Simon Burrow will speak at Saturday&#8217;s Entrepreneurship Workshop.<\/strong> <em>photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is organized by the Van Wert Area Economic Development Office, Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Van Wert, and the Wright State University-Lake Campus Business Enterprise Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker Simon Burrow is a \u201cserial entrepreneur\u201d. During a 25-year career owning small businesses, he started and operated manufacturing companies in four countries. He is a graduate of California State University at Los Angeles with a degree in finance. In 2003, he sold his last business, which primarily made components for the electronics industry, to Brady International and became a social entrepreneur working for immigrant rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To further the right to migrate he has produced a documentary film, created a web site, curated a traveling map exhibit on the U.S.-Mexico border, and moderates a Facebook group Rational Immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is an active investor with investments in a number of small, public technology companies. He is a frequent guest speaker at California State University, University of Southern California, Arizona State University, and other schools, where he speaks about entrepreneurship, luck, and-or immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Burrow, the Entrepreneur Workshop will include local small business owners, entrepreneurs, and experts in a variety of fields, including marketing, law, financing, real estate, and insurance, to spark conversation on the topics they are passionate about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be a Business Plan Challenge, where individuals seeking to start a local business create, submit, and present a business plan to a panel of judges for the change to win business development funds. The challenge also includes business counseling sessions conducted by WSU-LC\u2019s Business Enterprise Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsors for the event are the Van Wert County Foundation, US Bank, and Citizens National Bank.&nbsp;For more information, call the Van Wert Area Economic Development Office at 419.238.2999.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information A speaker has been named for the upcoming Entrepreneur Workshop, which will be held at the Kenn-Feld Group, 10305 Liberty-Union Road in Van Wert, starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, February 8. The event is organized by the Van Wert Area Economic Development Office, Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:49:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}