Today's Entrepreneur

Today's Entrepreneur: Kohl Gill

No. 1 mistake: Feature-bloat

Innovation series by Sylvie Leotin
April 6, 2011 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/18e2

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Vator is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams.

We are a diverse community of dreamers, builders, and trailblazers, who want to change the world, build great products, and better the lives of others.

We come from all over the globe, and from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities.

Some of us are fresh out of school, while others are experienced veterans and serial entrepreneurs.

It's addictive.

We are engineers, scientists, artists, historians and business majors; men and women, all burned by the same passion for entrepreneurship.

Today's Entrepreneur showcases our diversity, and gives our entrepreneurs an opportunity to share their journey with the community-at-large.

Today’s entrepreneur is Kohl Gill, founder of LaborVoices, and recent Vator Splash winner. Interesting note about Kohl: he is a former physicist turned social entrepreneur. According to his VEQ (Vator entrepreneur assessment test), Kohl is good at team motivation, thought leadership and negotiation skills.

I am:  an entrepreneur, recovering physicist, transparency nut.

Name companies you've founded or co-founded: LaborVoices.

Name companies you've invested in: LaborVoices.

Name startups you worked for: LaborVoices.

If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to change the world.

List your favorite startups: LaborVoices, Blekko, BetterMeans.

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation? Valuation.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make? Feature-bloat.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur? Listen to your team. Listen to your customers. When in doubt, be open.

 

 


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Description: LaborVoices is a for-profit company with a social mission: ending labor abuses by  enforcing labor market transparency.  Labo...
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Kohl Gill
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LaborVoices, Inc
Bio: Dr. Kohl S. Gill is the President and Founder of LaborVoices, Inc., a start-up company providing information services to migrant workers ...

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