Today's Entrepreneur: Cesar Castro

No. 1 mistake: Inability to pivot when the marketplace tells to do something different

Today's Entrepreneur is Cesar Castro, Founder and CEO of DiscoveryCast. Cesar will be speaking at our Vator Spark gamification conference: Get Game. Check out the agenda and register here.

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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
DiscoveryCast, Inc.

Startups I worked for:
ChemConnect, MBA Polymers, InnoCentive

If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to be my own boss, and be in control.

My favorite startups:
Dropbox, Prezi, Evernote

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Establishing a predictable sales and revenue cycle

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Inability to pivot when the marketplace tells you that you need to do something different

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. Sometimes you have to walk away from a sales prospect who is wasting your time, no matter how attractive they seem.
2. Get your legal affairs in order from day 1 (incorporation docs, partnership agreements, etc)
3. It's going to be 10 (or 100) times harder than you thinkk!!!

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