Indeed, during our tour for Main Street Entrepreneur — a road trip across the U.S. in which we interviewed founders from all walks of life — very few successful entrepreneurs mentioned money as the main
motivator for starting a company.
He is a Mexican born citizen, and the only reason he was able to start a business here in Canada, was because the government offered a permanent residency in
exchange for him starting a company.
Chairman and CEO Elon Musk, an Internet multimillionaire who is personally bankrolling the whole effort, says his ultimate
motivation for starting the company is no less than saving humanity from suicide.
Whether you have a
vision for starting a company or an idea of what role you want to play within one, advancing in a male - dominated world is a worthwhile hurdle to jump.
You say your understanding has always been that business plans are
for starting companies.
It is the best that it has ever been
for starting companies.
MacRae had initially planned to take a postdoc at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., but when he came to Vargo to talk about an idea he had
for starting a company, Vargo offered to hire him.
My business partner Tim and I had become friends in, of all places, spin class, and talked a lot about ideas he had
for starting companies.