A talk with John E. Richards - Entrepreneur/Angel Investor/Mentor/Advisor
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On this episode of the cavnessHR podcast, we talk to John Richards - Entrepreneur Angel Investor Mentor Advisor
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John E. Richards is an entrepreneur, venture investor, mentor, and educator. His endeavors involve founding, operating, managing, selling, and investing in enterprises. Though he is a generalist, he mentors entrepreneurs frequently in software, Internet, mobile, blockchain, and consumer products. He founded Startup Ignition, an entrepreneur bootcamp. He served as Google Fiber’s Head of Operations as it launched in Provo, Utah.
He spent over a decade teaching entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he helped it achieve a #2 ranking and bring the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology to global prominence. He is listed as one of the Top 25 entrepreneurial educators in the United States. He was managing partner of Utah Angels, a venture investing group.
He co-founded BoomStartup, a leading tech seed accelerator. He has invested in hundreds of ventures and mentored thousands. Early in his career, he was president of a yellow pages publishing company and later created the first-ever online yellow pages that led to an initial public offering and multi-billion-dollar valuation as part of InfoSpace, Inc. John is a frequent speaker at conferences and other events. He and his family reside in Utah.
We talk about the following:
Startup Ignition
What do successful founders do
The importance of building a great team
Optimal time to approach investors
John’s Social Media
John’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrichards/
John’s Twitter: @johnrichards_ut
John’s Email: jrichards@startupignition.com
John’s Resources
Startup Ignition is an in person live boot camp that's held in Lehi, Utah. It's a booming Tech Center. We hold a boot camp there about every three months tuitions $1,999 or 2000. For any listener today that mentions that they saw this podcast if they want to attend and come in and stay in a nice, low cost hotel for three days and be a part of the three day boot camp. We will give a $500 discount so $500 down to 1500.
John’s Advice
In today's market, one of the most important things that you can do for yourself is to make sure that you are taking the time to understand what you're getting into as you think about launching a company or think about taking an idea to market. You need to be very careful when you're hiring people. The old saying, on hiring is, you know, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So you know, be slow to hire quick to fire. Same thing with your customers. You need to make sure you understand your customers very well before you press on the accelerator and put too much gas.
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