"Just Do Something"

For Local Tech Heroes

Answer this.

• If you could be anything in the world, what would you be? (It's OK if you don't know.)
   
• If you could help others, how would you help them?

About Me

• Self-taught developer
• Business owner
• Application security
• Community organizer
  • paircolumbus.org

I'm Lucky

I started my first business while in grade school.

• I shoveled snow
• I sold cleaning supplies
• I sold candy

I was bad at all of it, but I learned something...

How to Fail!

Something that worked

At 19, I started a t-shirt company
which never got off the ground but...

• I taught myself to build websites
• I taught myself to use a camera
• I learned to write proposals

And it lead to...

What did I learn

• To sell myself and my ideas
• To have confidence
• To treat others fairly
• To save money
• To embrace learning

It lead to...

What did I learn

• How to create products
• How to be an effective leader
• How to manage a team
• The importance of trying again,
  and again and again and again

It lead to...

Where do you start?

• Be true to yourself
• Find something you enjoy doing!
• Get nerdy
• Do it! Don't just talk about it.

Move forward!

How to "do"?

• Establish a goal
• Break that goal into pieces.
• Complete each piece until you...
• Complete the goal
• Do it!

Move forward!

Major Keys

1. Develop a product or skill that people
   will pay you for
2. Don't play yourself. Avoid making
   the same mistake twice...if you can.

Do something!

Q&A

Contact

Jay Bobo

@jaybobo