{"id":8827,"date":"2015-06-23T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2018-08-23T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:57:17","slug":"eberlin-presented-with-governors-entrepreneur-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/eberlin-presented-with-governors-entrepreneur-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Eberlin Presented With Governor\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2015\/06\/project-based-jim-eberlin.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Eberlin\" width=\"1029\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2015\/06\/project-based-jim-eberlin.jpg 1029w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2015\/06\/project-based-jim-eberlin-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2015\/06\/project-based-jim-eberlin-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2015\/06\/project-based-jim-eberlin-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2015\/06\/project-based-jim-eberlin-400x214.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, then-Missouri Governor Jay Nixon awarded Jim Eberlin the Governor\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, in recognition of his success in founding not one, but three start-up companies, beginning with Host Analytics in 2001 and followed by Gainsight (formerly JBara Software) in 2011 and TopOPPs in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Eberlin earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in business and accounting in the Simon School of Business.<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding, TopOPPS has raised more than $4 million and now employs more than 20 tech and sales-savvy professionals in St. Louis. This success has made Eberlin one of the highest-grossing single entrepreneurs for venture capital currently active in the state. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal post-bottom\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"\" data-rm-love=\"0\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nectar-love\" id=\"nectar-love-8827\" title=\"Love this\"> <i class=\"icon-salient-heart-2\"><\/i><span class=\"love-text\">Love<\/span><span class=\"total_loves\"><span class=\"nectar-love-count\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa icon-salient-x-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='pinterest-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Pin this'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Pin<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, then-Missouri Governor Jay Nixon awarded Jim Eberlin the Governor\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, in recognition of his success in founding not one, but three start-up companies, beginning with Host Analytics in 2001 and followed by Gainsight (formerly JBara Software) in 2011 and TopOPPs in 2014. Eberlin earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":8830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eberlin Presented With Governor\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year Award - MPress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/eberlin-presented-with-governors-entrepreneur-of-the-year-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eberlin Presented With Governor\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year Award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2015, then-Missouri Governor Jay Nixon awarded Jim Eberlin the Governor\u2019s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, in recognition of his success in founding not one, but three start-up companies, beginning with Host Analytics in 2001 and followed by Gainsight (formerly JBara Software) in 2011 and TopOPPs in 2014. 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