Shownotes
Scott Maitland is a business owner, military veteran and professor of the practice in entrepreneurship at UNC-Chapel Hill. A graduate of West Point, he is the proprietor of Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery, an iconic Chapel Hill restaurant which has won more than 40 best-of awards in the Triangle area. Scott has a passion for Chapel Hill and small business ownership and sits on the board of several North Carolina business and trade organizations.
We covered:
- How Scott got started in business ownership
- Entrepreneurship as a life philosophy
- How to add partners to a business venture
- Principles he follows to run Top of the Hill
- Advice for students pursuing a career in investment banking or consulting
- Unicorn Entrepreneurship vs. Old School Entrepreneurship
- Achieving balance in an imbalanced way
- Working on the business vs. in the business
- The hidden advantages of turnover in business
- The advantages small businesses offer to their communities
Visit Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery in Chapel Hill
Man in the Arena Speech by Teddy Roosevelt
The Happiness Lab podcast
What Franklin Street looked like after North Carolina won the 2017 national championship (TOPO is in the top left)
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