Scott Dubois is the Co-Founder of Pidalia, a digital consultancy of senior-level strategists, creatives, and technologists that wrestle with their clients’ messy business problems. Scott is also a Partner at Gingham Ventures an early stage investment firm that also advises businesses on strategy and execution. Scott’s superpower is creatively combining technology with communications, and integrating them into how a company grows their business. Scott is an internationally recognized speaker on the topics of technology, marketing strategy, user engagement, and cross-media communications as well as a mentor for the Mass Challenge and E for All startup accelerators.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Austen Allred Co-Founder & CEO at Lambda School
- Elon Musk
- Scott Harrison founder, CEO at Charity Water
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had a company that wasn’t successful at all, as a matter of fact the company went bankrupt. I think that was the most important lesson because even in the failure of the business I took so much of it as a learning opportunity. Today I took so much away from looking back on that and understanding what I did wrong. So not seeing the prevalence of cloud computing coming, not understanding that. In entrepreneurship selling is everything and really needing to understand that getting out there in the market, does your product have traction, can you make a sale and can you continue to make a sale and not become complacent are hugely valuable entrepreneurial tools”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Ice to the Eskimos: How to Market a Product Nobody Wants Book by Jon Spoelstra
- The Algebra of Happiness: The pursuit of success, love and what it all means Book by Scott Galloway
Favourite Quote:
None
Recommended Online Resources:
Twitter – It’s what’s happening. From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“just always be willing to adapt. We know the market is going to change, the business might look different in three, five years and that’s okay as long as it aligns with your vision for what it is that you want to be to do for those that you are serving”…[Listen for More]
More About Scott Dubois:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“80% of success is showing up.” Woody Allen
Other Quotes From the Chat with Scott Dubois:
- “talking to other people, I think that’s critically important, something I continue to do today. And so just always getting out and being an active learner is an important skill set for an entrepreneur”
- “always being aware I am certainly strongly opinionated but I’m also trying to be very aware of opinions of others in the marketplace in general”
- “probably the hardest thing for an entrepreneur to do is be willing to take risks. And so, when you talk about success often times success is associated with a calculated risk but a risk taken for outsized gain. And so, understanding that risk is not necessarily a bad thing”
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