Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, HackerOne, Mattermost, SAP, FINOS Foundation, The Executive Center, data.world, Creative Commons, and others. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed book The Art of Community, a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, founder of the Community Leadership Summit and Open Collaboration Conferences, and co-founder of Bad Voltage. He is an advisor to AlienVault, Moltin, data.world, Mycroft, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Wim Taymans Part of the project GStreamer
- Jono’s Friends
- Liz an Executive Coach
When business started difficulties overcame:
“you can break this question into a few difference areas. There is one that is like the logistics and the. I would evaluate what the market looks like, how much business you think is out there, I would talk to other people who have been doing similar kind of work and ask them your questions about what it’s like to do that. I think sometimes the image of a business and being in the particular position and the reality often two different things”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
- The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage Book by Ryan Holiday
Favourite Quote:
“This too shall pass”
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Buying a Kindle and downloading books and reading them
- Discord — Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers. Step up your game with a modern voice text chat app Crystal clear voice, multiple server and channel support, mobile apps, and more
- CoSchedule Marketing Suite – Organize Your Marketing In 1 Place – A family of agile marketing tools that will help you stay focused, deliver projects on time, and make your team happy Get organized now
- WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“’have a go’ it sounds simplistic but don’t let your gut hold you back, go and have a go. And it’s amazing what you can do when you say ‘wouldn’t it be cool if we tried this’. Let’s see what happens… The companion piece to that is actually a quote from Winston Churchill where he said ‘keep buggering on’. And what that basically means is even when it’s tough, even when you’re struggling keep going… Even when you are tired, even when you’re exhausted keep going on and just have a go”…[Listen for More]
More About Jono Bacon:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napoleon Hill
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jono Bacon:
- “experimentation is really a fundamental part of how we figure out how to do whatever we are doing well…”
- “There are many things that when I started out where I had all of these ideas about what I thought were at the time were really smart and insightful ideas about how I could do this and separate myself from the pack. And some of those worked out and some of those didn’t. And my view has always been it’s what you do is you experiment, you play with an idea, you track the performance of it and then you see how well it performs. And you are always looking for other ideas and opportunities and patterns in the ether to guide you moving forward… Looking for those patterns is really important and I think it’s really fun because… you get to channel that discovery work and when you see a potential pattern you get to experiment with and see if it works”
- “don’t take yourself too seriously. Some people get way to wound up about their public image, they are constantly focused on their social media presence and they are always trying to push themselves into everybody’s mindset. And sometimes it comes across massively desperately”
- “Power is something that is given it is not something that you should take for granted. People only have our over you if you let them have that power. And I simple to say I’m not going to let that person had power over me. Whether it’s a customer who’s being difficult or a client who’s being difficult, whether it’s somebody who you work with. Put that kind of stuff into context”
- “always looking for the opportunity that is hiding in plain sight we are surrounded by it. And we all come from different backgrounds and different places. But the people tend to succeed in business and the people who can identify that opportunity and they can harness it. But when they harness it they don’t do it in a demanding way, they don’t force other people into it, they do it in a collaborative way, they provide an opportunity to get their skin in the game, to feel that sense of collaboration in harnessing that opportunity to”
- “in times of difficulty when we are struggling with whatever life might throw at us it’s going to pass; it’s going to get better. But also, in times of feast over famine that is also going to pass… Life has got waves and it’s got graduations in terms of the good and the bad. Being aware that those good moments, those terrible moments will pass and we don’t just look at how to deal with those but we also look at what’s beyond as well”
- “one of the things that stand-up comedians talk about is that when they produce that one-hour worth of content that you watch on Netflix or Amazon prime or whatever. To generate that hour-long special, they go and play comedy clubs almost every night for a year and they try new material, they die on stage, they get heckled at. But each individual gig they pull away a little bit that they can add to their special. And I that applies to anything that we are doing”
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