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The Small Business Conference. Festival-style event for business owners, operators, and teams. Build relationships. Grow your company. Sep 15-17 in Columbia, MO

Columbia, Missouri Bergabung Şubat 2023
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The 2026 Speaker Lineup Is Here! September 15-17 in Columbia, Missouri just got a lot more interesting. We've spent the last few months assembling a group of speakers who've actually built something worth talking about. Operators, investors, and founders who can point to real businesses, real returns, and real lessons learned the hard way. We're super excited to host these folks at Main Street Summit this year! Here's the lineup: •@PeterMallouk – President & CEO, @CPIWealth and new majority owner of @SportingKC • @shaneparrish – Founder, Farnam Street • @nathanbarry – Founder & CEO, @kit • @sduggleby – Co-Founder & CEO, @VenusAerospace • @km – Managing Partner, @KindredVentures • Todd Peterson – Co-Founder, illumiNations •@bryce Roberts – Founder, INDIE VC •@isaacfrench_ – Founder, @xhospo • John Linehan – President, Irresistible Foods Group (inc. @KingsHawaiian, @GrillosPickles) • T. Dupree Scovell – Managing Partner & CIO, Woodbine Development Corporation Plus more speakers we're announcing soon. Stay tuned... We can't wait for September in Columbia! Learn more at MainStreetSummit.com #mainstreetsummit #businessconference #businessevent #smallbusiness #smb #businessowner #columbiamo #como #stlouis #stl #kansascity #kcmo
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One week out. Last call. Our Nashville Field Trip to @WalkerLumberSup is March 23-24 — and spots are almost gone. Go inside a Dealer of the Year operation and learn how they built a business that's both wildly profitable and deeply people-first. This isn't a webinar. It's real talk, on-site, with their leadership team. Don't wait — register now: register.mainstreetsummit.com/e/field-trip-w…
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This is the kind of founder we want on stage at Main Street Summit this fall. Four consecutive years on the @Inc Female Founders 500. Congrats to the whole team.
Venus Aerospace@VenusAerospace

Rocket engines hadn’t meaningfully changed in 60 years. @sduggleby decided that was her problem to solve. Now @Inc has named our CEO and co-founder to its Female Founders 500 for the fourth consecutive year. The recognition follows a milestone: flying the first U.S. high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine. And helping bring the next generation of women into aerospace. 🚀

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Congrats to our friend and returning Main Street Summit speaker on the launch of Good Money!
johnwcoleman@johnwcoleman

Today’s the day! My news book, Good Money: Six Steps to Building a Financial Life with Purpose, is out TODAY from @HarvardBiz. It’s available as an audiobook, hardcover, and ebook. This has been a three year labor of love to write a book about how money can enable rather than impede human flourishing. The book covers a framework for human flourishing, good money mindsets, earning with purpose, consuming wisely, giving generously and well, investing for impact, and saving for freedom not retirement. I also include with a discussion of money and kids that I found incredibly valuable for my own family. How can you help? Launch day is HUGE for new books. I’d be so grateful if you would: 1. Share the news through reposting this post with your thoughts or a selfie of you and the book for your socials (once you have a copy) 2. Buy a copy (or 10!) on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your preferred bookstore. 3. Write a review now! Amazon and Goodreads reviews are incredibly important. If you’d like to reach out about bulk orders or speaking I have a new website where you can contact me in the comments.

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One of 35,000 lumber yards in America. One of only 3 to win Dealer of the Year. @WalkerLumberSup didn't get there by accident. They got there by treating "Serve with Excellence" as an operating system. On March 23rd, we're taking Main Street Summit attendees inside their Nashville operation to learn how they've built a business that's both highly profitable and profoundly people-first. You might be thinking: "What could I learn from a lumber company if I'm not in that industry?" Fair question. But this isn't about lumber. It's about: → Building hospitality culture in "unglamorous" industries → Their Second Chance Program (hiring for potential, not just pedigree) → Performance reviews that actually tie back to values → Making profitability and generosity work together Light on slides. Heavy on real talk from the leadership team. Field Trip is March 23-24. Available exclusively to Main Street Summit All-In Passholders. Grab your spot on this Field Trip in the thread below.
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Five more speakers. Five different paths to success. One thing in common: they have built something incredible. Main Street Summit 2026 just got even better. We’re excited to announce the return of five of our favorite speakers this year! Shegun Otulana (@sotulana) – Founder & CEO, Harmony Venture Labs. Moved from Nigeria to Birmingham at 18, bootstrapped Therapy Brands to a $1.25B exit - the largest software exit in Alabama history. EY Entrepreneur of the Year. Rina Thomas White – Partner, Twain Capital. Bought a commercial laundry business in February 2020, grew it through COVID, sold it to a public company in 2022. @Harvard Law, @McKinsey alum. John Coleman (@johnwcoleman) – Managing Partner, Sovereign's Capital. Former executive, HBR contributor, author of three books on purpose and leadership. Jamie Shah – President, Chem-Impex International, Inc. Left @GoldmanSachs to run the family chemical company her dad started with a phonebook and persistence. Made @Inc 5000.
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Ali Hamed started Treville Capital Group as a senior at @Cornell University. He and his co-founder called themselves "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." They'd commit $50 million to deals before they had the money raised. "It's a terrible way to live," Ali told us at Main Street Summit. "But the concept works." His advice? "Just get started. Don't wait for the perfect structure." Ali didn't wait for the right credentials, the right partners, or the right moment. He found a good opportunity and figured out the rest as he went. Five years of scrappy deal-by-deal work turned into $2B+ deployed across 100+ investments. The lesson applies whether you're launching a fund, buying your first business, or starting a company: Proof beats planning. Momentum beats perfection. What's one thing you've been waiting to start? Ali was joined on the Main Stage by @jeremygiffon from Octave and @BrentBeshore from @PermanentEquity. Watch their full discussion at the link below.
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How I Built My Network, Before I Knew Anyone by Ali is a must read!
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Ali Hamed started Treville Capital Group as a senior at @Cornell University. He and his co-founder called themselves "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." They'd commit $50 million to deals before they had the money raised. "It's a terrible way to live," Ali told us at Main Street Summit. "But the concept works." His advice? "Just get started. Don't wait for the perfect structure." Ali didn't wait for the right credentials, the right partners, or the right moment. He found a good opportunity and figured out the rest as he went. Five years of scrappy deal-by-deal work turned into $2B+ deployed across 100+ investments. The lesson applies whether you're launching a fund, buying your first business, or starting a company: Proof beats planning. Momentum beats perfection. What's one thing you've been waiting to start? Ali was joined on the Main Stage by @jeremygiffon from Octave and @BrentBeshore from @PermanentEquity. Watch their full discussion at the link below.

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@ashthaker1 @SahilBloom @ModernDad @alexisohanian @STLChrisH @BrentBeshore We're huge @STLChrisH fans over here. He's building Hoffman Brothers U in this space. x.com/STLChrisH/stat…
Chris Hoffmann@STLChrisH

We started talking about creating "Hoffmann Brothers University" because we needed two things: more leaders and more plumbers. Our team at Hoffmann Brothers has grown from about 50 people in 2016 to well over 400 people today. Rapid growth has made it challenging to: • develop the leadership talent we need internally; • bring leaders in from elsewhere; and • hire enough skilled tradespeople (plumbers specifically) to meet customer demand. We realized that we needed a training program that could scale with our business. That’s why we decided to invest in Hoffmann Brothers University. Our 3 pillars for HBU are: 1. Leadership Foundation 2. Training and Education for Our Team 3. Enter the Trades (giving young people exposure to the trades as an attractive career path). So far, we have: • Opened a 30,000 square-foot training facility on our campus in St. Louis County. • Had 100+ leaders at HB attend sessions. • Built partnerships with local schools to introduce young people to the trades. • Graduated three classes of plumbers. • Graduated our first class of HVAC professionals, pictured here on their first day at HBU a couple months ago. And we are just getting warmed up.

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There’s a huge opportunity to build Trade School 2.0. Here’s my thinking: Both education and employment are in the middle of a tectonic shift. AI and other new technologies are reshaping those landscapes rapidly. The traditional college system is fracturing. How do you convince someone to spend $200k+ on a degree when entry-level knowledge economy jobs feel increasingly uncertain? Meanwhile, the unsexy is becoming sexy. Plumbers. Electricians. HVAC technicians. Home services. Energy. Manufacturing. People who work with their hands and need to understand people. Trade School 2.0 embraces technology as leverage in both training and business building in service-oriented sectors. It could also serve the massive reskilling wave that's coming. Training people for "trades" we can't even envision today What am I missing? Who’s building this?
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Good Taste is Good Judgement. Finally getting around to sharing the presentation on "Taste" that I presented at @MainStSummit last year. Topics include: The physics of beauty, how the ancients thought about taste, attraction vs. repulsion, truth vs. falsehood and the implications of taste on (and in) business.
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Most conferences give you a breakout session. We're giving you two days inside a 250,000 sq ft factory where roller coasters are built - and a prison where manufacturing is transforming lives. This March, Main Street Summit is heading to Wichita, Kansas for a Field Trip with Chance Rides and Capital III. @chancerides has been building amusement rides since 1961. Roller coasters, carousels, observation wheels - for the two premier global theme park operators, Dollywood, Six Flags, and destinations around the world. You'll walk the floor and see how American manufacturing and creativity come together at scale. Capital III, founded by Pete Ochs, is an impact-investing enterprise that spans manufacturing, real estate, energy, and education. They run a manufacturing operation inside a Kansas prison that pays fair-market wages - and it's become a national model for second-chance employment.
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When sponsors say they "always enjoy this event, learn a lot, and connect with extremely high caliber people" - that's the whole idea. Grateful for @dealonomy and every partner who helped make Main Street Summit 2025 a success! We're opening up sponsor partnerships for 2026 - if your company serves small business owners, we'd love to talk about what we can build together this year. cc @ClintFiore @JackieHirsch_
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We're doing it again, September 15–17, 2026 - and we're opening up sponsor partnerships for this year. If your company serves small business owners and you want to be in the room with 1,500+ of them, we'd love to talk about what we can build together. 🔗 mainstreetsummit.com/sponsorship
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AAdvantage Business (@AmericanAir) sponsored our General Store - a curated retail space featuring products from @miir and others. @gowithquo set up free professional headshots for attendees and offered a hands-on experience with their Sona product. @QuesTec_Mech hosted an interactive tour of its manufacturing facilities. The NCF - Heartland gave attendees an exclusive tour of the brand-new renovations at Faurot Field. @dealonomy built an entire lounge that became a hub for some of the best sessions of the week. @redbudvc brought several of their portfolio founders to speak on our stages. That's what sponsorship looks like at Main Street Summit. Your brand woven into three days of real conversations between the people who actually build and run businesses. And they weren't alone. @EquipmentShare, @HawthornBankMO, Inzo Technologies, TEI, @CovenantCollege, Associated, Homegrown, Golden Grove REI, Franzy, Essential Properties, Crescendo Exit, @CubitCapital, @franchise_firm, @rejigg, Outsearched, and @AngelList all showed up to support the small business community.
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Every year at Main Street Summit, we ask attendees a simple question: What’s your biggest challenge right now? And we encourage them to ask each other the same. A few answers kept coming up: “It’s hard to find the right people in the room.” “Networking feels transactional.” “I want real conversations.” So we redesigned sponsorships around that. No booths. No awkward badge scans. We blew up the traditional expo floor and replaced it with immersive experiences woven into the Summit itself.
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