Michael Braun
- Managing Partner
- Archive
School Information
School: UW-Madison
College Major: Business
Years at College Works: 2013
Career Information
Working For: Archive
Title: Managing Partner
Industry: Consulting
Brief Description of Duties / Responsibilities:
Archive is a sales and consulting agency that matches companies and individuals with coworking and shared office solutions, and supports coworking spaces by optimizing their processes, maximizing their visibility, and supplementing their staffing with industry experts. Leveraging my more than 8 years of experience in coworking sales, team management, and systems development, our focus is on assisting coworking spaces maintain their systems, grow their pipelines, fill their spaces, and continue to build their community.
College Works Career Impact
In one sentence, what has CW meant to you?
College Works Painting was easily my most difficult endeavor to date, but well worth every minute of it.
How did your CW experience impact your career? Immediately after graduation? Now?
I thoroughly enjoyed going house to house, and have since switched into Real Estate.
What was the greatest lesson you learned from your CW experience?
Framed around marketing, no a thousand times in a row makes that ultimate yes all the sweeter.
Advice
What advice do you have for potential CW participants? Current CW participants?
Learn early on to be able to take a step back and see the big picture. Things are a lot harder trying to tackle everything at once.
What’s your best advice for someone interested in entering your career field?
Entrepreneurship is all about who you know and who they know. An idea will stay just that until you reach out to achieve it.
What’s your favorite memory from CW?
Easily Go Big. It was a glimpse at the finer things in life especially towards the end and it was absolutely intoxicating being in a room with such powerful people.