Mississippi State University, Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach
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Listen and learn from successful alumni & other business leaders in a 1-hour weekly talk presented by successful entrepreneurial alumni and other guests invited to speak. They will share their background, how they built their business, and general insight into overcoming challenges critical to being an entrepreneur in today’s world. This program is made possible by the Jack Hatcher Endowment for Entrepreneurship, the Bagley College of Engineering, and the Center for Entrepreneurship & Outreach at Mississippi State University.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Founder and operator talks turn financing, product development, ownership and scale into concrete accounts of business decisions.
Jack Hatcher Entrepreneurship Podcast gives business builders room to reconstruct the choices behind their companies and careers. Speaker-led sessions move from personal history into operating detail, then often open into questions.
A laundromat owner meets his banker at blackjack; your business plan suddenly has more personality.
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A plainspoken argument for momentum, ownership, and a work life with more room in it.
Bo Bounds keeps the talk grounded in a simple worry: what comes next when there is no clear plan. He ties that feeling to his own path, from getting through school without a roadmap to spending 20 years hosting Out of Bounds on ESPN Radio in Jackson, Mississippi.
A founder talk about work, risk, and hard-won judgment.
This piece makes entrepreneurship feel lived-in rather than abstract. The strongest part is the path itself: food science, full-time work, restaurant management, then ownership, with regular acquisition calls coming later.
Practical AI talk that links model scale and cloud computing to everyday work, with only a slight wobble at the end.
The episode does a good job keeping the technical line easy to follow. It moves from Mississippi State and Georgia Tech into a plain explanation of how neural networks work, why more parameters matter, and why cloud computing became part of the story once models got bigger.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
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Bo Bounds speaks to a campus audience about how he built a 20-year career hosting Out of Bounds on ESPN Radio in Jackson, Mississippi.
The speaker opens with a thank-you and a quick warning that his voice does not project especially well.