Venture Visionaries

The Venture Lab celebrated Women's History Month with a special edition of a Fireside Chat. Women in Business and Entrepreneurship with Kat Pascal.  Kat Pascal is an entrepreneur, woman, a second generation latina, and a mother. She holds many identities and is able to do so many things!  Kat spoke with students in the Venture Lab about the adversities she has experienced in her entrepreneurial journey.  Kat is the Founder of several businesses, including Spotless Roanoke, Farmburguesa, and Latina’s Network. Here is some of the advice and words of wisdom she shared with the students! A type of internal readiness that you can achieve is psychological readiness - dealing with your own beliefs about whether you will succeed.  A second dimension of readiness is economic readiness. Your readiness is early exposure to economic markets.  Your own early experiences with the language and landscape of business can lay the foundation for your comfort or discomfort in operating those spaces. S

Students need all the advice they can get when it comes to starting their own business or getting a job after college. Alumna Caitlyn Scaggs (07’) visited Radford University’s Venture Lab to tell her story and share advice with business and entrepreneurship students. Caitlyn has enjoyed a career full of plot twists. Fresh out of college she was a police officer, but five years later, transitioned into marketing and communications. Currently, Caitlyn works in a stateside capacity for an anti-trafficking non-profit based in the Dominican Republic. Here are Caitlyn's top 5 pieces of advice she shared with RU students: ● As you aspire for the future, be committed to what's in front of you today and do it well. ● Choose your battles! Recognize constraints and figure out which battle is a battle you want to fight. ● Self-directed learning - We do not need anyone else to learn, you can pursue your own knowledge to do whatever you aspire to. ● Tangible skills are critical for entrepren