Today’s Entrepreneur is Crick Waters, CEO of Conga. According to his VEQ, Crick is a thought leader and is good at networking and fund raising.
Conga was one of the companies presenting in Vator Splash SF.
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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
Companies I’ve founded or co-founded:
Ribbit
Startups I worked for:
Applied Process Technology, Ribbit, Conga
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I love creating things that people value
What’s most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Frustrating: Knowing deep in your heart you’re going to have a valuable technology and service while repeatedly being told in one form or another the opposite.
Rewarding: Being told how great what you’ve build is – especially by those who had told you otherwise.
What are the top three lessons you’ve learned as an entrepreneur?
Wow. Let me boil it down to one top lesson: Keep on networking.
I love what The “Power of Pull” by John Hagel et al. teaches. There are some great lessons learned in the TechCrunch article, “The Ribbit Rollercoaster: A Founder’s Story From Concept To $105M Exit” (http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/21/the-ribbit-rollercoaster-a-founders-story-from-concept-to-105m-exit/) and my follow-up post, “
The Rest of the Story of The Ribbit Rollercoaster: A Founder’s Story From Concept To $105M Exit” http://crickwaters.wordpress.com/?p=411&preview=true.
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