What do you want? Watch this video and then try to answer this question about your work. I dare you.
Then tell me – was it easy to answer?
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What do you want? Watch this video and then try to answer this question about your work. I dare you.
Then tell me – was it easy to answer?
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Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcast Most people I talk to say the same thing: “I want to start something on the side… I just don’t know what.” It sounds like an idea problem. It’s not. It’s an awareness problem. Because the truth is, most people already have...
I didn’t walk in offering to rewrite software.
I didn’t pitch features.
I made a simple claim:
“I can save your $100K investment by showing you what to remove.”
That was it.
This episode of Company of One is for the experienced professionals who feel that pull toward consulting but can’t quite see the path from where they are to where they want to be. The ones waiting to feel ready — not realizing the person people want to hire already exists.
I’ve been thinking about this question since you asked it at the IEM summer seminar 6 months ago. I still don’t have a solidified answer yet. I can think of lots of peripheral things like “I want to be my own boss” or “I want to run my own company” but I don’t think that is necessarily what my end game should be. There are a lot of ways I could meet these goals without really being happy. Still pondering…
Keep pondering – we will work on you more this summer;)
Update to the comments: Brandon Morgado has now graduated from IEM (2011), and successfully launched his own business, StartUpBirmingham (www.startupbirmingham.com), along with Chase Wright (IEM 2012). They were featured in the IEM CloseUp, June 2011, and you can check out that interview here: http://www.uab.edu/iem/iem-experience/news-headlines/27-blog/187-pilot-episode-of-iem-closeup-meet-startup-birmingham