Mynul Khan founded Field Nation in 2008 when he identified a need for a contingent workforce platform. With a background in programming and data analysis, as well as an affinity for growth hacking, Mynul’s experience drives Field Nation’s growth strategy and motivates him to grow the Field Nation team.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Sports Player, Entrepreneurs, Musicians
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The biggest difficulty for me was I was in a new country, which is the US and I didn’t really know anybody and my network was very limited. That was my first difficulty. As you know starting a business the bigger network you have the better for a variety of reasons whether it is to find talent, find all mentors and advisers or raise cash – you just need a bigger network, the bigger the better. So I didn’t have that that was the biggest obstacle. The other thing is I never really thought of myself as a businessman or think about starting my own business so really I never had any exposure to how to start businesses and how to do certain things”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben Horowitz
- The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses Book by Eric Ries
Favourite Quote:
The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Recommended Online Resources:
- The New York Times – The New York Times Find breaking news, multimedia, reviews opinion on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars and more
- The Wall Street Journal – WSJ online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world Top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis and in depth reporting
- Ben Horowitz Blog – Read writing from bhorowitz on Medium VC, Blogger, and Author of the book Hard Thing About Things
- Above the Crowd By Investor Bill Gurley –
- Sangeet Paul Choudary – Platform Strategy – ALL THINGS PLATFORMS
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Make sure that whatever your passion you translate that in a product that has a product market fit. And try to do that as early as possible without getting into what I see a lot of entrepreneurs do is they focus so much on the product and building and continuing to build the product that is just too much before finding the product market fit. It is very expensive, very costly. So the first thing is going to be trying to find that product market fit as early as possible because once you get that then the rest (I don’t want to say) gets easier (because it doesn’t get easier) but at least there is hope once you find the product market fit”…[Listen for More]
More About Mynul Khan:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“We all want answers to the big questions.” Mark Frost
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mynul Khan:
- “I made a lot of mistakes and I continue to make a lot of mistakes every day. And that’s part of the journey, if I don’t make mistakes it probably means I’m not trying anything new”
- “if you have a passion to start your own business just pay attention to the successful entrepreneurs. You can read their blogs… read books and case studies, lots of case studies, hang out with other entrepreneurs, there is start-up communities out there, it just broadens your horizon, it just gives you a lot of exposure to what to do, what not to do, all sorts of stuff”
- “there is so much that I know now and there is so little that I knew five years ago or 10 years ago”
- “never give up, don’t give up, find your passion, stick at it until you are successful”
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