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Susan Schreter is the Founder and Managing Editor of Take Command. The organization was formed in response to thousands of letters, phone calls and comments from startup entrepreneurs who want to visit small business web sites that offer more information to learn rather than more products to buy. And so, Take Command was conceived as a less commercial, more inspirational service organization for first-time entrepreneurs.
Susan Schreter’s career experience covers every important aspect of the life cycle of planning, starting, funding, building and then selling a manufacturing or service business in America. She has served as a commercial lender, investment banker raising debt and equity for emerging companies; corporate joint venture deal maker; middle market buyout fund advisor; angel investor; and ardent entrepreneur with her own business interests.
From her 20 years work in the venture and buyout fund community and then later building her own company, she has seen it all. She knows first-hand what banks and investors say about entrepreneurs behind closed doors, the heartbreak of missteps, and the satisfaction of achieving against-the-odds success. Her business and investment banking experience in consumer products, banking, environmental technologies, health care, communications technologies, toys and games, retailing, franchising, and web services gives her unique insight into the American entrepreneurial experience.
Today Susan is an advisor to top venture funds and corporate investors and an advocate of entrepreneurship and successful business building. She writes the weekly Q & A format newspaper column Inside Entrepreneurship which is distributed to partner print newspapers and is a frequent speaker at regional and national entrepreneurial organizations.
When not coaching entrepreneurs on a pro-bono basis in the US she gives her time to non-profit micro-business finance organizations in Africa, Central Asia and South America. She is the co-founder of Summit Seeker, a non-profit organization that develops entrepreneurial educational tools for micro entrepreneurs.
“Entrepreneurship and a thriving small business community is one of the few areas of our economy where the average hardworking person can truly get ahead. For individuals who face discrimination or declining job prospects in the corporate sector, entrepreneurship is likely to be a highly lucrative and satisfying career choice. Plus it can be a lot of fun!”
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