Words of Wisdom
Jeff Cornwall, Director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship teaches and mentors a class of entrepreneurship students.
Nicholas Holland, our CEO and President of CentreSource spoke to Jeff's class and offered up words of wisdom. They include the proper time to start up a business and focusing on a proper sales strategy.
In a recent article about smartRay Network Inc. published in Fast Company, author Keith Hammonds beautifully describes the personal sacrifices that are required to build a company. We get to see the entrepreneurship spirit lived out here at CentreSource on a daily basis amongst our team.
In its essence, entrepreneurship in the dotcom age remains what it always has been. That is, entrepreneurship is about passion. Entrepreneurship is about malleability, about adapting to change without compromising your core vision. Entrepreneurship is about staying cool under fire. It is also about being an outsider. Entrepreneurs must think differently -- not just from their competitors but from their partners and employees as well.
Most of all, entrepreneurship is about risk. Entrepreneurs must be willing to make decisions that will threaten their wealth and their reputations. They must be willing, as [Troy] Tyler is fond of saying, to burn their ships on the shore, as Hernan Cortes and his crew did -- to leave everything behind in dedication to the quest.
Visit Jeff Cornwall's blog - The Entrepreneurial Mind for further Words of Wisdom.
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