SEER Interactive founder Will Reynolds loves sharing. “Being open about my ideas makes me go back into the lab and learn some new shit when no one else is looking.”
The Brutally Honest Entrepreneur: SEER Interactive’s Wil Reynolds
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Chasing Small Ball Counts with Alchemy Learning
Henry Blue was restless.
“The cyclical nature of education started to worry me,” confesses the former teacher. “How do you reconcile that need to impact major change during your day-to-day work?”
Frank Coates on the Transformative Power of Failure
Frank Coates of Wheelhouse Analytics believes, “It’s all about finding small pockets of need in these big financial organizations that other IT companies find underworthy of their investment. A small company like ours can do that.”
CoreDial’s Alan Rihm on Being a “Real Entrepreneur”
Alan Rihm on his early days as an entrepreneur: “We went from selling 2-3 accounts a day to 20-30 because we went on the Howard Stern Show and gave away Netscape disks for free.” Alan needed help. Fast. “I recruited my mom to answer the phones. She said, ‘But I don’t know what to say!’ I told her just to pick up the phone and put them on hold.”
The “Invisible Inventor” Robert Morris
When inventor Robert Morris showed his multimedia program to an investor and told him that everyone was going to have multimedia on their desktop in 5 years, “He told me I was crazy. But that was the same person who turned down Steve Jobs so I don’t feel so bad.”
John Bacino Holds the Slippery Coat of Innovation
“Knowing a need and filling it was an early lesson I learned,” says inventor John Bacino. That lesson led to a long and illustrious career at W.L. Gore, and even spurred him to launch a company in his retirement.