Being an entrepreneur is like a marathon, not a sprint. It’s better to take your time and build something stable and solid rather than race headfirst into a wall. In 2011, Marc Bouvrot-Parratte founded his first venture, Crystal Device, an innovative startup in the energy harvesting sector. His experience in…
Prioritize execution. Bringing even smallest ideas to life may get stuck if you’re trying to tackle it all at once. Instead, I deconstruct the idea into components and prioritize the parts which I’m going to tackle first. Marina is the founder of Travel Tech Con – the only independent…
If you can find the intersection between your strengths and your passion, you’re way ahead of the game. Brian Lim is a serial entrepreneur who has bootstrapped three ecommerce businesses including iHeartRaves, Emazing Lights, and INTO THE AM, which collectively gross over $20M per year. He started out with $100…
Take a step back, look at the bigger picture and ask yourself some questions. Steven Andiloro is an accomplished businessman in the security industry. His company, Professional Security Solutions, LLC is a highly-respected and well-established business in the North Carolina area. With his hard work, leadership and adept skill in…
Meet Steven Andiloro – Founder of Professional Security Solutions
Focus on the most important things first. Jeff Day is the CEO of Bluewater Technologies, a company devoted to creating live events and AV technology experiences for strong brands. Jeff’s professional passion lies in helping individuals and organizations achieve maximum collaboration value through fostering innovation, developing winning partnerships, and…
Look for ways to differentiate whatever it is you’re doing from others, as well as find ways to constantly evolve and enhance your business model. With more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the life science & biotech industries, Greg Cruikshank has leveraged his professional and entrepreneurial…
Rely on everyone you know. Too often entrepreneurs try to do everything by themselves because they think they know it all or to keep it a secret or for some other reason. Brent Shafer is co-founder and CEO of Vuevent, an event discovery platform based in Austin, Texas. Vuevent takes…
A big lesson I learned the hard way early on was to work as hard as you can to bring talent in house. Outsourcing seemed like the cheap and quick solution for me early on, but it wasn’t sustainable at all. Manick, a self-taught software engineer, manages all front-end, back-end,…
SpinGo’s goals are big, and we know we need the help of other specialists in the event arena to make them happen. Instead of looking out for our ‘turf’, we look out for our ultimate mission. Kreg builds stuff. Most recently he built SpinGo, a robust local event platform powering…
The next step is efficiency: basically, ‘here’s what we need to do to make it happen, now how can we make it the best product it can be?’ While many know Bob Reina to have quite a sense of humor, it’s no joke when he says: “In order to be…
Embracing the fact that productivity is not defined by the quantity of work but by its quality, and taking the time to understand the critical ingredients to produce my highest possible contribution — improving my state of mind, removing barriers to success, fully understanding the problem or task in front of…