{"id":2705,"date":"2014-05-28T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2015-11-12T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:04:15","slug":"alan-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/alan-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 113: Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Venture Capitalist & Philanthropist Alan Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0113
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0May 24
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Alan Hall
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Alan Hall is an entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, author and philanthropist.\u00a0 Hall earned his Bachelor\u2019s degree from Webster State University in Utah, and his MBA from Brigham Young University.\u00a0 Hall described that he always had the entrepreneurial spirit and discussed with Stevoe that what he has learned most has come from\u00a0his failed business ventures.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe talking about Maine’s economy with entrepreneur, angel investor and recent MEREDA keynote speaker Alan Hall (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Hall is a business leader from Utah, which is a state Forbes ranked at the top of its list, completely opposite Maine. Hall discussed the similarities and differences between Maine and Utah, and provided suggestions on how Maine can advance its ranking.<\/p>\n

Hall is a consummate businessman and entrepreneur. \u00a0His acknowledgments include Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997 and MountainWest Capital Network Entrepreneur of the year in 2009. \u00a0He has invested in scores of companies and directly launched and led organizations ranging from home businesses to the multinational sales outsourcing organization MarketStar, which he sold to Omnicom in 1999.\u00a0 He continues to serve as Chairman of the Board.<\/p>\n

He is a weekly contributing columnist to Forbes.com.\u00a0 Hall is also a contributing writer to Harvard Business Review.\u00a0 Hall explained that he was in town to be the keynote speaker for the recent MEREDA<\/a> forum on May 20th, 2014.\u00a0 The event was a gathering of Maine\u2019s top\u00a0 professionals and focused on the ingredients of creating a successful\u00a0 economic development plan.<\/p>\n

Hall is founder of Grow America,<\/a> a national company emerging from Utah with a mission to create jobs and lift local economies. \u00a0Grow America aligns the partners, mentors and capital that entrepreneurs need to create and grow tomorrow\u2019s successful companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and philanthropist Alan Hall was in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to discuss the similarities and differences between the states of Maine and Utah with host Steve Woods. Hall was also able to provide insights into how Maine might learn from Utah, as Maine\u2019s economy recently ranked as the 50th state, for the fourth year in a row, on Forbes Magazine\u2019s \u2018Best State to do Business\u2019 List. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}