Dr Jacqui Taylor is an international web scientist, one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs, one of the Top Ten global Internet of Things innovators and an independent IoT industry analyst. I’m sharing my proven success plan with 1 million entrepreneurs to create the Empathy Economy for the IoT.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to overcome a complete career change because there was no way I knew the first thing about technology but I did know about aircraft and so I actually had to start again. As it turns out the Internet of things is an engineering challenge and you use technology to solve it. So I did it the wrong way round maybe actually that might come full cycle with that which I just find very interesting”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future Book by Seth GodinFavourite Quote:
“Stay hungry, stay foolish” Steve Jobs
Recommended Online Resources:
Medium where words matter. Medium deliver’s the best stories and ideas on the topics you care about most straight to your homepage, app, or inbox.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find your why. Because all the things that we do as an entrepreneur we have just got to know why we would do them. The journey itself is the point… obviously we are pushing to get to a destination. But finding your why is the key. And the reason for that is the how, how am I going to get there, how I going to do it you will discover that because we have already talked about what problem are you solving. You know what problem you’re solving, find out why you would do the entrepreneur journey to solve that problem. Because as you share your passion the how you achieve that that will unfold as we all grow into ourselves as entrepreneurs, into ourselves as solving those problems” …[Listen for More]
More About Jacqui Taylor:
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” Will Rogers, American actor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jacqui Taylor:
- “always know that there is more tomorrow, never get bogged down with where you are”
- “If I waved you a magic wand what would you want me to sort?”
- “I think that everybody should explore this route forward. It’s a very creative route, it has its pluses, it has its minuses as does anything you do in life”
- “get connected into your ecosystem, find your ecosystem, decide what problem it is you are solving and get online and do some research on the problem you’re solving, get off-line and meet up with other entrepreneurs that are in your space… Get reading regularly… Tune in two podcasts as well… With reading and with podcasts and whatever you find online good ideas come not just from everywhere but from everyone to. So find the voices that you connect with, that resonate with your message, that resonate with the things that you do. Explore this space because it’s an amazing space”
- “you have got to have a good team around you. Nothing that I have accomplished can be done in any way without the right people around you”
- “you have got to pick it apart and you have got to constantly review what you are doing”
- “I think one of the things that’s fantastic as an entrepreneur is to find other entrepreneurs or other people that connect with your ideas and the way you are looking at things and your problems”
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