SLAM ONLINE | » Markus Carr: Ballin and Business in Europe

SLAM ONLINE | » Markus Carr: Ballin and Business in Europe: "At one of my camps I met a person who happened to be the president of a company that specialized in fundraising for capital enterprises and nonprofit organizations. This person began to help me advance my youth program and reconstructing the business plan. This was my first exposure to business plans and the idea of running a business for success. I developed my youth basketball program and somewhere in-between that mission, I developed this hunger to return to the professional game. At the time I could have settled for a position with 501club Inc. or my youth program, but I decided to hand over my youth program to my friends and reject the offer to work for the company to come back to Europe. It was a major pay cut but a decision I felt would benefit me in the future. So, now I’m back in Europe. During this [most recent] season I was playing with a team in Sopron, Hungary, which is only a 40-minute drive from Vienna."