"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
- Develop a product or skill that people
will pay you for -
Don't play yourself. Avoid making
the same mistake twice...if you can.
Do something!
Q&A
Contact
Jay Bobo
@jaybobo