The Players’ Impact: Entrepreneur Athletes
This week my guest is Tracy Deforge, the founder of The Players’ Impact. The Players' Impact was founded in 2017 as a group of athletes who were interested in investing in start-ups. As they built out the group, they quickly realized there was an interest beyond investing. Now, TPI is a hub for entrepreneurial minded athletes: an extensive cross-sport athlete network, industry experts, early stage business resources, and investment opportunities - everything an athlete entrepreneur and investor needs to thrive. At TPI, they are building the virtual locker room for players to share and discuss all things start-up…Rather than 100 players investing in 100 different start-ups, our goal is for 100 players to invest in top start-ups together.
Tracy is an attorney by training, an entrepreneur in spirit, and an executive leader through experience. Tracy’s career has focused for more than a decade in the sports industry on start-up companies, technology offerings, and pioneering business initiatives. She has been intimately involved in all aspects of entrepreneurship, from envisioning the concept, business planning, hiring, operations build out, funds raising, strategic partnerships, outsourcing, finances, marketing, and more. With a focus on action and results, she is a leader who jumps into the trenches, learning and then executing the necessary steps to achieve goals, enthusiastically working to keep everything moving forward to make our shared vision a reality.
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More About Tracy: After earning her J.D. at Seton Hall, she went to work for the National Hockey League (NHL) and then Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB.com). Ever since, she’s worked at the unique intersection of sports, entertainment/media, and technology – including COO of a pioneering mobile video SaaS offering targeting sports broadcasters and partner in a venture investment firm focused on sports and entertainment firms.
KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: Conducting detailed due diligence and market/competitive analysis of potential investments on more than 2,000 proposed business ideas; Identifying emerging trends and developing business ideas to capitalize on them; Building start-ups from conception to launch; Raising financing for development and growth of lucrative business ideas
You can find them at:
http://www.theplayersimpact.com/
@playersimpact
@tracydeforge
tracy@theplayersimpact.com
In this episode you’ll hear:
•The vantage-point of women in the male-dominated sports industry
•What it’s like to be a woman entrepreneur, AND working mom of 2 (one with ADHD))
• How "Sisu" (Finnish “grit”), can guide your determination to succeed in tough situations.
