Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Supplement course work with practical experience. Business networking is key.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. ” F**k.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Of course the dirty one took the shower.’ But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert. Some areas were easy because they were technical and the answer was knowable or estimate-able.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Good entrepreneurs are wrong often. Making Things Happen.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Of course you could start your own company. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. ” My friend Ian Sigelow wrote about this last week and advised people not to take on this kind of job. Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO. For many people that’s the right answer.
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 21, 2014
It’s interesting to see academic institutions like Carnegie Mellon offering courses in MSIS in close proximity to more hands-on booths such as Hard Case Survival specializing in surreptitious entry / restraint escape training for government and military. No, your information is not secure!
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.
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