Michael Choi is the CEO of Coding Dojo, a leading Coding Bootcamp with campuses in Silicon Valley, Berkeley, Seattle, LA, Dallas, Chicago, Tyson’s Corner, and Tulsa, and an online program. Coding Dojo is unique in that it teaches students the skills to quickly learn any new coding language, in addition to rigorous training in 3 full stacks in 14 weeks. As a result, their highly sought-after graduates hit the ground running in any company they join and are immediately impactful.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None
When business started difficulties overcame:
“A lot of challenges. Entrepreneurship is one of those things where you have to do a lot of things right just to avoid business going under. On top of that, on top of hundreds of things you have to do just to make the business profitable and make it operational you have got to do some other things to stand out of the crowd and become a dominant leader in the industry you are in. So looking back just a lot of challenges: how do I grow my sales team? How do I develop a product that is differentiated from the competitors? What product should about? How do I build these products and test things in a marketplace without having so much money because I bootstrapped all of my companies. ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! Book by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees by Patrick M. Lencioni
Favourite Quote:
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford
Recommended Online Resources:
- Paul Graham Essays – is an English born computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed “Yahoo! Store”), co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News.
- W3Schools – W3Schools is an educational website for learning web technologies online. Content includes tutorials and references relating to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, AngularJS, SQL, Bootstrap, Node.js, jQuery, XQuery, AJAX, and XML.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“decide whether you want to be an entrepreneur or decide whether you are going to be one and then act upon it. It starts with the mind. If you decided to be an entrepreneur then walk that path. Want to be an entrepreneur then you will never be an entrepreneur. You kind of have to decide I am going to be one and I am one”…[Listen for More]
More About Michael Choi:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
Other Quotes From the Chat with Michael Choi:
- “I really believe that everyone has the potential to be great”
- “when it comes to entrepreneurship it’s more of a decision that one makes, it’s not whether you are born as an entrepreneur. You have to decide to become an entrepreneur pay the dues. I believe that paying the dues usually requires years of paying the dues to be a great entrepreneur. But everyone could become a great entrepreneur if they pay the dues.”
- “you really need to think in terms of years of commitment not just oh I have six months or nine months to try entrepreneurship. I think anyone who wants to try on entrepreneurship for 6 to 9 months I think that that is not enough time to learn how to be a great entrepreneur. It needs to be in years and you have got to make a full commitment. It’s more of a commitment rather thank you I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur…”
- “I wake up excited each day because I am able to make direct impacts in people’s life’s – not just the customers and the students we serve but also the employees that we have. And that is just a really good feeling”
- “metrics can be an important tool for leading the team”
- “Everything starts in your head and then we use faith to make whatever is in our mind become a reality”
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