Joseph Fung is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator, and of Kiite, a sales enablement platform purpose-built to provide sales teams with the information they need when they need it. Joseph is also a graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, and he is a repeat Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity, and corporate social responsibility. He is an active early-stage investor who ensures that the majority of his investments are into women-led companies. Joseph also sits on the boards of Communitech, the Golden Triangle Angel Network, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Joseph’s Parents & Brother in law
- Unitron past president
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when we think about difficulties very often, we think about our general circumstances, our physical situation, environmental, the economic climate. When I think about my decision, I think the biggest challenges I had to overcome my own decisions”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Book by Peter F. DruckerFavourite Quote:
- “if you can’t be a good example then you will just have to be a horrible warning”
- “feedback is a gift”
Recommended Online Resources:
For Entrepreneurs — Expertise, Wisdom and Resources for Startups and Entrepreneurs
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be deliberate and intentional about culture want to create because if you aren’t it’s going to happen despite you. And it’s way better to be in control as you are guiding that so that you can build the company you want to work in and you want to grow”…[Listen for More]
More About Joseph Fung:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” Shonda Rhimes
Other Quotes From the Chat with Joseph Fung:
- “I don’t know if we could’ve done it any faster other than really encouraging myself past Joseph to act more swiftly. Those difficult decisions they will slow you down and maybe take a day or two or a week debating with yourself, evaluating and the reality is that if you do take that course of action, take that decision based on the values, the direction you want to go. Your team will be there with you to help you sort it out and you might be able to move a bit more quickly just taking that leap of faith. But it’s a tough question because the journey is what gets you to the end goal and the shortcuts mean you aren’t going to experience it all and you’re not going to learn everything so it’s a tough one. ”
- “The big thing is, maybe it’s not a secret, is sharing, your learnings, your insights. The wonderful thing about ideas and learnings is that it is not a zero-sum game. If you give me an idea and a lesson and if I give you an idea and a lesson, we both have two. It’s not like we lose out. If you take that respective of abundance and give value first it comes back to you in the most surprisingly”
- “I think every entrepreneur should be reading as much as they can, stand on the shoulders of giants”
- “every knowledge worker has to work like an executive”
- “the feedback I get is how I learn to improve our business learns to improve. And we try to apply that every single day because it’s the only way to accelerate improving”
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