Jul 29, 2026 · 34 min · 15 segments
Episode 72 of the CDC Tech Life Podcast features Kevin Eichelberger, Regional Director for the Coastal Region for the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA). Kevin shares his experiences as the…
And, you know, that was around the time of the first second dot com bubble burst.
So I'd really gotten immersed in that world, but I had to take a step back and was like, well, wait a minute.
So, you know, Got the opportunity to work at Blackbaud, entirely different domain, dealing with nonprofits, fundraising, nonprofit accounting.
We're now exposed to all of the different domains as the company's grown and trying to always like understand them and figure out how to connect dots in a way that, you know, we can do things that scale across all of these different product domains that we've got.
Yeah, I think there are some of us that like, and some people like depth.
And so I think it's understanding who you are, what motivates you, what excites you, what gets you up in the morning.
Well, is there anything, you know, if you think back on your experience with Blue Acorn, starting the initial business and then Blue Acorn, that you bring to your engagement with other founders and your experience, like how you experience their ventures through the lens of what you did? Is there anything that sort of stands out that's like a recurring theme there?
Yeah, I mean, A, I live vicariously through all the entrepreneurs we get to work with, so I enjoy that quite a bit.
But in terms of the things that I learned at Blue Acorn, how they apply to what I'm doing now and helping other entrepreneurs, lessons are many.
Recurring themes might be things like resourcefulness, like I mentioned earlier.
I was good at Googling things, YouTubing things and figuring things out.
The tools entrepreneurs have today to do the same exercises is infinitely more powerful.
And, you know, that was around the time of the first second dot com bubble burst.
So I'd really gotten immersed in that world, but I had to take a step back and was like, well, wait a minute.
So, you know, Got the opportunity to work at Blackbaud, entirely different domain, dealing with nonprofits, fundraising, nonprofit accounting.
We're now exposed to all of the different domains as the company's grown and trying to always like understand them and figure out how to connect dots in a way that, you know, we can do things that scale across all of these different product domains that we've got.
Yeah, I think there are some of us that like, and some people like depth.
And so I think it's understanding who you are, what motivates you, what excites you, what gets you up in the morning.
Well, is there anything, you know, if you think back on your experience with Blue Acorn, starting the initial business and then Blue Acorn, that you bring to your engagement with other founders and your experience, like how you experience their ventures through the lens of what you did? Is there anything that sort of stands out that's like a recurring theme there?
Yeah, I mean, A, I live vicariously through all the entrepreneurs we get to work with, so I enjoy that quite a bit.
But in terms of the things that I learned at Blue Acorn, how they apply to what I'm doing now and helping other entrepreneurs, lessons are many.
Recurring themes might be things like resourcefulness, like I mentioned earlier.
I was good at Googling things, YouTubing things and figuring things out.
The tools entrepreneurs have today to do the same exercises is infinitely more powerful.
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