Today’s Entrepreneur is Laurence Tobin, founder of MindGames. According to his VEQ Laurence is a thought leader and is good at product management and project development.
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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
Companies I’ve founded or co-founded:
MindGames
Companies I’ve invested in:
MindGames
Startups I worked for:
MindGames
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to invent something cool.
My favorite startups:
Dropbox, Spotify, Groupon
What’s most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
The most rewarding thing is being able to move quickly to develop cool things and see them being used by real world consumers. As for the most frustrating … that could take a LONG time 🙂
What are the top three lessons you’ve learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Everything takes longer than you expected and costs more than you planned.
2. You will shoot yourself in the foot — several times. Learn from it and move on.
3. Every conversation is a good one … you never know where it might lead
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