Tim Hebel was thrilled to learn he had been named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s 202140岁以下40班，尤其是在以前错过了该出版物的30岁以下30列表.

“The year I wanted to apply for it, they got rid of it,” Hebel explained. “So this year for the 40 under 40, someone nominated me. It’s exciting to be part of the group that St. Louis thinks is on the up and up.”

Hebel, a 2016 graduate of the张信哲代言的欧宝网址密苏里大学–ST。路易计算机科学计划，是Beanstalk Web解决方案, a web development and digital marketing firm he started as a student at UMSL.

As part of the honor, the Business Journal will feature a photo shoot and Q&A with Hebel, as well as the other honorees, in a special edition published on Nov. 19. Additionally, the publication will host an award reception Nov. 18 at the St. Louis Marriott Grand Hotel.

希伯尔一直具有企业家精神。

作为一个高中生,他的plan was to go to college to find a skill he could build into a business, rather than pursuing a business degree. Initially, he thought that skill would be ocean engineering – a niche field with minimal competition.

在佛罗里达大西洋大学度过了一年后，希贝尔意识到他最喜欢的是他的计算机科学课程。他搬回圣路易斯，并参加了UMSL的计算机科学计划。2013年，他在攻读学位时创立了Beanstalk。

“In a way, I never had the opportunity to get that degree, graduate and then think about starting a company because I started it while I was in school at UMSL,” he said. “This wasn’t the intention, to create this. The company that I wanted to start just happened naturally, and here we are eight years later.”

到2016年，希贝尔（Hebel）有少数员工，晚上上课时全职跑步。在经营业务时，杂耍学校有时很难，但是UMSL的计算机科学计划为希贝尔提供了成功的工具。

“We see a lot of people coming through things likeLaunchCode和other coding bootcamps, and it’s made me realize how valuable a computer science degree is,” he said. “The value is that you learn all the fundamentals behind it all. You gain a deep understanding of programming in general, how all programming languages work, why they work.”

It’s made him, and the other UMSL graduates he’s hired, incredibly adaptable to a broad range of projects, and that knowledge base has set Beanstalk apart in the market. Many web development companies specialize in basic front-end design, but Beanstalk can handle more advanced back-end work likeAPI integration和databases.

“For example, some websites have a complicated design and need very experienced web developers to bring the design to life on both desktops and mobile devices,” Hebel said. “Or say a site has multiple levels of integration. A contact form may need to drop the form fill data into the customer’sCRM软件，然后将相同的客户信息发送到营销自动化软件和电子邮件列表中，并在客户签署会员门户网站时最终处理信用卡付款。”

数字营销部门还为客户提供基于指标的营销服务 - 搜索引擎优化，Google广告，营销自动化等，可以推动公司的增长。希贝尔说，许多企业都希望赶上21世纪，并使用技术来增加收入，自动化手动任务并产生更多潜在客户。

在过去的五年中，在希贝尔（Hebel）的领导下，Beanstalk已大大发展。该公司继续增加团队成员并增加了四倍的收入。总体而言，它与600多个客户合作，其中70％是本地的。

During that time, the company has adjusted to a constantly evolving digital landscape and focused its client base.

随时可用，易于使用的Web开发工具，例如SquareSpace和Wixhave made it easier than ever for someone with minimal computer science knowledge to build a decent website. Hebel said in the early days of Beanstalk, the company was often competing with freelancers who were building basic websites for a flat fee of around $1,000. As the company started growing, it was no longer worthwhile to allocate resources toward those projects.

“We used to play in that smaller space, where we would work with companies that were under a million in revenue,” Hebel said. “With our size, we can’t feasibly deliver a product that can compete with that. It’s forced us to change our target market, where most of the companies we work with are more like in the $5-100 million range. A company that’s not so big that it has its own internal web development team and small enough that they have some sort of marketing team outsourcing certain parts.”

While Hebel has successfully expanded Beanstalk, he admits there were some business fundamentals he needed to sharpen along the way. The小型企业管理的新兴领导者计划和Vistage，每月首席执行官圆桌会议，帮助他做到了这一点。

他说：“自学成才的方法确实很好，但是我意识到您想念的事情。”“我以为我理解了资产负债表是什么，但是我不太了解正确的深度，这是如何有用的。您如何使用该报告中的信息来做出业务决策。”

最近，希贝尔做出了扩展的决定。他预计在不久的将来会增加两个新的业务部门。人们将专门帮助客户自动执行管理任务 - Beanstalk对其许多客户做的事情。

He highlighted the company’s document management solution that templates business documents, alerts senders when the document is opened, provides the option for an e-signature and triggers a thank you email once the document is signed.

“It can be incredibly useful to help a business focus on what they do best, rather than being in the weeds with some of that,” Hebel said.

也有针对特定行业的计划。希贝尔正在评估公司的客户列表，以确定哪个行业最合适，但尚未做出最终决定。

他鼓励任何对Web开发感兴趣的人，如果他们想在行业中脱颖而出，请考虑UMSL的计算机科学计划。不可否认，这对他有所作为。

他说：“ UMSL做得很棒。”“您可以作为一个人出来，如果您需要学习一种新的编程语言，则可以在两天内学习它，因为您对广泛的基本面有如此精通。我认为计算机科学系在这方面具有很大的价值。”

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