{"id":1019,"date":"2013-07-20T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2018-06-26T18:49:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:49:42","slug":"auggies-are-helping-improve-the-success-rate-of-small-businesses-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/07\/20\/auggies-are-helping-improve-the-success-rate-of-small-businesses-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies are Helping Improve the Success Rate of Small Businesses in Minnesota!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffie Blesi \u2019<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1021\" title=\"Buffie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Buffie-22hc6bz-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Buffie Blesi \u201990, MAL \u201997 \" width=\"154\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Buffie-22hc6bz-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/Buffie-22hc6bz-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/>90, MAL \u201997 is on a mission.\u00a0 For the last five years she has been coaching small businesses as an AdviCoach franchises and along the way she has learned a few things about what makes them tick and what holds them back.\u00a0 And through this experience, she realized that the conversations surrounding small business were not telling the real story \u2013 that the challenges these small businesses faced were bigger than taxes, access to capital and regulation.\u00a0 She also realized that millions of dollars and thousands of hours of effort were being dedicated by non-profits, government organization, chambers and the like to help them be successful, but no one was working together.<\/p>\n<p>Thus was born AccelerateMN, a collaboration of businesses and community leaders committed to <em>Come Together, Work Together and Stay Together<\/em>.\u00a0 AccelerateMN believes that we can significantly improve our economy and get more Minnesotans hired by concentrating on education and the commitment of each business to take small steps that lead to hiring just one person.\u00a0 On August 14, Augsburg will be the host the keystone event the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Annual AccelerateMN Let\u2019s Get Growing 2013 Small Business Conference.<\/p>\n<p>This commitment to small business growth and support of Augsburg \u00a0includes her own organization.\u00a0 More than half of Blesi\u2019s team are \u00a0Auggies: Denielle Johnson \u201911- Marketing and Administrative Support Coordinator, Ward C.Schendel \u201974- Business Coach and Zebo Tursunova\u201913\u2013 intern working on AccelerateMN. They are a very diverse team engaging in our small business community by bringing together business partners, community leaders, and business owners by facilitating conversations, providing opportunities to share knowledge and ideas, and encourage small businesses to provi<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1022\" title=\"AccelerateMNHands_zpse72d735e\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/AccelerateMNHands_zpse72d735e-1mp6m10.png\" alt=\"AccelerateMN logo\" width=\"136\" height=\"160\" \/>de job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Come support your fellow Auggies at AccelerateMN as they continue the College\u2019s missions of educating to \u201cbe\u00a0informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers,\u00a0and\u00a0responsible leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffie Blesi \u201990, MAL \u201997 is on a mission.\u00a0 For the last five years she has been coaching small businesses &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49471,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/49471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}