by Melea McRae | Aug 17, 2022 | Operations, Strategy
By: Melea McRae “It’s your right to be uncommon if you can … You desire to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, yes, even to fail, and to succeed.” – Ewing Kauffman A client recently reached out asking for my advice on how to establish an advisory board for...
by Melea McRae | Aug 16, 2022 | Operations, Strategy
By Melea McRae Some of the best entrepreneurial advice I received from my mentor and business partner, Grant Burcham, was this: “You need to learn how to walk the plank, not the tightrope.” Walking the plank didn’t sound all that appealing or stable, to say the least,...
by Melea McRae | Dec 13, 2021 | Culture, News
By Melea McRae This October marked the seventh annual Pure Pitch Rally, one of my favorite start-up events in Kansas City. It’s essentially KC’s own version of Shark Tank, bringing together 100+ land sharks – the “who’s who” of investors, business leaders and VIPs of...
by Melea McRae | Nov 29, 2021 | Culture
By: Melea McRae and Essie Davis Running a business can feel like an Olympic feat some days, especially in the last two years. There’s no shortage of think pieces on the impact of the COVID, however, we have yet to truly understand the actual toll of the pandemic on...
by Melea McRae | Feb 24, 2021 | Content Marketing, Digital Marketing
What topic could you give a 20-minute TED Talk on right now with no preparation? When new employees start at Crux, we celebrate their arrival with a series of rapid-fire icebreaker questions to get to know them, and this question often gives them pause. Maybe it’s...
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