Lori Greiner, center, spoke Friday with a room full of Chattanooga area high school girls who will compete to solve a business problem in CoLab’s 24Hour Generator at Mad, Bad and Dangerous.Don’t take no for an answer. And steer clear of people who do.
That was some of the advice that Lori Greiner, one of the entrepreneurs who star on ABC’s reality TV show “Shark Tank,” had Friday for a crowd that packed into a $50-a-seat luncheon at the Chattanooga Convention Center for the kick-off of the Mad, Bad and Dangerous women’s entrepreneurial summit this weekend at Girls Preparatory School.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous continues all day today at a free public conference at GPS’ campus in North Chattanooga. Events include a women’s and girls’ marketplace with more than 50 vendors, various speakers and Co.Lab’s 24Hour Generator, in which some 30 high school girls will compete to solve a business problem.
And Mad, Bad and Dangerous will expand next year, since, in addition to the Chattanooga event, the Knoxville Entrepreneurship Center will hold a Mad, Bad and Dangerous conference.
“This city has embraced this event, and the event has expanded,” GPS Head of School Autumn Graves announced Friday to loud applause.