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Anne Patterson at new Innovation Accelerator site in Buena Vista
“It’s resiliency.” By Tom Field
After more than 800 alumni over an eight-year run of a popular entrepreneurial business competition, the founder shares insight.
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This month, we’re publishing our FRONTList 2022: Business Leaders. Annette Patterson’s Gauntlet Business Competition, an entrepreneurial prepping program through The Advancement Foundation continues to expand its reach in major ways as it prepares to deploy its ninth class (February 7th, 2023). What a good time to ask her if she’s noticed any similarities among the alumni who placed or won the competitions or turned out extraordinarily successful
She did. She does.
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“It’s resiliency,” Annette Patterson said. “And grit, which is a little different.” Patterson cited an experience from way back in the 1980s when she was in a short-term business class in Florida that brought in entrepreneurs from all over, in all kinds of enterprises. “That still sticks with me,” she says, about