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Renaissance Man
A profile of the 1995 Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year and the runners-up.
Published December 1995
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BUY A REPRINTPaul E. Terry has designed and developed an entrepreneurial program that not only trains future company builders but also provides an incubator, a financial-resource center, and a follow-up support network for center alumni
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATOR
Entrepreneurship Educator: An individual who has pioneered effective ways to teach entrepreneurship
THE WINNER
Paul E. Terry
Organization: San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
Activity: A consultant to the nonprofit microenterprise-training operation for the past eight years and the architect of its various courses, workshops, and seminars
* * * THE RUNNERS-UP
Carolyn P. Gough
Organization: The Franchise Center, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at El Paso
Activity: Founder and executive director of an educational resource center for people interested in entering business through franchising
* * * David M. Ambrose
Organization: Nebraska Rural Communities Program, Omaha
Activity: Enron Professor of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who has spent more than 20 years teaching entrepreneurship
* * *Thanks largely to the efforts of Paul E. Terry, 360 formerly low-income and moderate-income San Franciscans are in business for themselves, with combined revenues of $25 million and more than 1,000 new jobs among them. Not that Terry would boast about it. "He's the last person in the world to seek recognition," says Claudia Viek, executive director of the San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, a microenterprise-training operation where Terry has worked as a consultant for the past eight years.
This year's winner of the Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year award, which is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in Kansas City, Mo., Terry started and sold several companies in San Francisco before launching his small-business consulting firm, Paul Terry & Associates. The nonprofit Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center has been his main client since 1987, when Viek retained him to help with strategic planning and development.
At the time, Renaissance offered a single course, taught once a year. With Terry as program architect and, in Viek's words, "spiritual guide," it has since emerged as a model training center for urban company builders. Terry has directed the creation of three levels of entrepreneurship training -- introductory to advanced -- so popular that every business class has at least double the applicants for the space available.
