Episode #7: Building the Largest Free Entrepreneurial Event in the World with Erik Mitisek, Co-Founder of Denver Startup Week
Today on our show we have Erik Mitisek, co-founder of Denver Startup Week, the largest free startup gathering in the world! He’s here to share the story of how they grew their event to 20,000 attendees and the lessons they’ve learned along the way while keeping the event completely free and welcoming to all. We’ll be chatting about developing partnerships, managing volunteers and building scalable solutions that enabled year over year sustainability.
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The Keystone is a Cue9 production. This episode was produced by me and Kevin Chemidlin, with editing by Max Graham. Charlton is the luck you have when you are making a sunny side up egg, and you flip it, and it lands perfectly in the middle of the pan.
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