Rochelle Kopp Rochelle has been an entrepreneur for the past 22 years, as a cross-cultural business consultant specializing in Japan. More recently she has turned to the area where she lives and works, Silicon Valley, to help people better understand the language and culture there as well.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Her college tutor
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I spent a lot of time in grad school and after grad school trying to figure out how I could do the kind of work I was interested in within someone else’s corporate structure and as you might guess that didn’t work particularly well”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. GerberFavourite Quote:
“I’m waiting for the next surprise”
Recommended Online Resources:
Product Hunt – a curation of the best new products, every day Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone s talking about.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Keep your focus, focus on 3 things, your customers and making sure that you are always making them happy, to be focussing on your employees and making sure that working for you is always gonna be a good experience for them, and also focussing on yourself”…[Listen for More]
More About Rochelle Kopp:
Valley Speak: Deciphering the Jargon of Silicon Valley
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I’m really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don’t care who you are, it’s what we all think about. It’s in the back of all our minds.” Ridley Scott
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rochelle Kopp:
- “I really love working with people and working with groups and see them be able to make progress and so I like that immediate feeling of making a contribution and doing something really useful and getting that immediate feedback from them”
- “I’m very much a gut feeling kind of person, I’m very intuitive but at the same time I’m very analytical and I do have an mba in finance so I’ve kind of got that part too so I like to have a lot of data then based on the data I’ll make a gut decision”
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