And when I look back at my own tenure as the CEO of my own company, I realize that most of the skills that made me successful in product development, marketing, management, or just collecting our receivables were just footnotes to that crash course in human nature that I got from sales.
When I sold my own company earlier this year the first thing I did was to establish a charity called the IPOP Foundation, which is a charity focused on helping entrepreneurs through education and mentoring and access to capital.
As I became an entrepreneur running my own company, I quickly discovered that the things I was most passionate about were being able to see a problem and then figuring out a way to solve it by designing software that could simplify and streamline the problem.
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In 1993 I started my own company in the software industry and sold it to an Israelis company in 2000 which was subsequently sold to BMC Software a few years later.
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Prior to being a technology evangelist, I ran my own tech consulting company, so I know more than the average person about technology.
So I am spending more time teaching, in advisory activities, whether it is within my own company or the community at large, I am thinking about longer-term succession within my firm.
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I'm probably more focused on the fund now than I would be if I had my own company.
Within a few weeks I had left the television station to start my own company.
In the end, I decided to start my own company and MKG was launched in 2003.
So, in weighing our options, I decided to create my own publishing company, Nothing But The Truth LLC, to publish and distribute our anthology.
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Instead, I will stop my own support as a few are effectively holding the entire company ransom.
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Seven months after starting partner therapy, I found myself crying, every day, on the way to work at my own company.
That is why, at RockThePost, the company I co-founded, we joined the investment crowdfunding movement, with our own streamlined twist.
If you had told me five years ago that I would launch an e-commerce company, I would have laughed at the idea I never expected to own a business.
Since 1999, when Cirrus began selling FAA-certified airplanes, the company has attracted a different kind of owner-pilot. (Disclosure: I own and fly a Cirrus.) Many of us never thought of flying a small airplane until we saw a Cirrus.
My quest to start and run my own company never dissipated and therefore, even as I was back at work, I started scanning at the various opportunities that I could see and think of.
"It's simply not fair and not right what some of them are doing by saying, I've got lots of sales here in the UK but I'm going to pay a sort of royalty fee to another company that I own in another country that has some special tax dispensation, " he said.
Last month, Kate announced that she was stepping down from her role at Cosmo to focus on her writing and speaking career just days before I decided to leave my own longtime position at Hearst to join Sandow a company that owns luxury brands in the media, design and retail space (including Interior Design, Worth and Fred Segal to name a few) as EVP, communications.
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