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<\/a>Her start-up, Acel Inc., specialized in licensed children’s products. She worked with major toy manufacturing companies, becoming a trusted licensing expert for companies such as Coleman Outdoor Products, Marvel Comics, Nickelodeon, Magna Bikes and Hasbro. <\/span><\/p>\nBerman attributes her firm’s success to her mother’s artistic talent and influence, as well as her own ability to hire talented designers and be an effective negotiator.<\/span><\/p>\nBerman added giftware design and stationery to the company’s offerings, and as Internet business opportunities emerged, she transitioned it into J. Berman Design and janestyle.com. She said she made the shift because she was curious about online business. She learned a great deal, but called it a “baptism by fire.” <\/span><\/p>\nBerman says studying Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot at Bemidji State prepared her for such adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n“I had to write lively, clear copy to drive searches to the site,” she said, “I also had to know how to collect and organize information.”<\/span><\/p>\nWhen Berman first ventured to New York searching for the next step in her career, she also met her future husband, Jerry Berman. How they met is a charming tale of a time before handheld technology.<\/span><\/p>\nShe boarded a bus from the airport into the New York City and promptly realized she was lost. In a fateful decision, she asked Berman for directions. He was a Milwaukee native doing business in New York. He said he could tell she was a naïve young woman from the Midwest. He gave her directions. They went to lunch and have been together ever since. Jerry’s business was based in Boston, so they eventually settled there, where they raised daughters, Brigitte and Margot. <\/span><\/p>\nBerman’s next venture and adventure combined family and business. In 2007, she launched a publishing company, Jade LLC, and published “Dorie Witt’s Guide to Surviving Bullies,” authored by Brigitte. The book became an instant success and is used within school districts across the United States to begin discussions about how children can discourage bullying.<\/span><\/p>\nShe believes her analysis, writing, speaking and negotiating abilities all developed from the education she received at Bemidji State. The challenges she overcame as a student taught her to persevere and always move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n“An English degree was the best degree to have,” Berman said, “That’s what set me apart.”<\/span><\/p>\nWritten by Maryhelen Chadwick<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"W<\/span>hat can you do with an English degree from Bemidji State?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The question ought to be, what can\u2019t<\/i> you do with an English degree from BSU? Just ask Jane (Van Den Heuvel) Berman \u201985.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,958,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-magazine","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25016,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160\/revisions\/25016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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