Title: Launching into Uncharted Space
Date: 2013-02-27
Speaker: Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, Ching-Yu Hu (Skybox Imaging)
Link: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
 
Hiring your friends when you need to hire fast sometimes actually works. (Dan Berkenstock)
Rapidly iterate your technology to market but don’t kill your team in the process. (Dan Berkenstock)
All it really takes is a simple idea. (Dan Berkenstock)
For getting a business going (the idea) isn’t sufficient. You have to find that near-term path to revenue to make the company tick, to make investors happy, to make it all work. (Julian Mann)
Passion is a really infectious thing. (Ching-Yu Hu)
Don’t take no for an answer. (Ching-Yu Hu)
Be scrappy. (Ching-Yu Hu)
Most of the times you’d be surprised at what you can get if you just ask. (Ching-Yu Hu)
Develop a healthy disrespect for seemingly impossible tasks. Nothing is too big. (Ching-Yu Hu)
Learn how to scale your transparency. (Ching-Yu Hu)
Always error on full disclosure. (Ching-Yu Hu)
You have to grow from being an entrepreneur to an executive. It takes years. (Dan Berkenstock)
If you’re going to start a company you need to think about what you want your life to be like the next five years. (Dan Berkenstock)