266: Start Run and Scale Your Business with Jason Stowe Founder and Owner of Cycle Computing

Jason Stowe is a seasoned entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Cycle Computing, the leader in cloud computing orchestration software for Big Compute and Big Data. Under Jason’s leadership, Cycle Computing products have helped Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries including Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Financial Services and Insurance, and Government. Jason has been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, BusinessWeek, Bio-IT World and Forbes.  Starting with three initial Fortune 100 clients, Jason has grown the business to deploy proven implementations at Fortune 500s, SMBs and government and academic institutions including JP Morgan Chase, The Hartford Insurance Group, Johnson & Johnson, Purdue University, Pfizer and Lockheed Martin. Jason attended Carnegie Mellon and Cornell Universities, and volunteered/guest lectured for the Entrepreneurship program at Cornell’s Johnson Business School.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Bill Gates

When business started difficulties overcame:

“Well for me I’d just finished repaying my last college loan. I dropped out to have a business, we went through the .com boom and I was working for a software computer graphics company back in 2000 and we went to raise another round in June 2001 that was the planned timing and as you know the internet exploded in April so it was very hard to get funding with legitimate technology and a legitimate software business”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Book by Jim Collins

Favourite Quote:

“Never never never never never never never never give up” Churchill

Recommended Online Resources:

The Entrepreneur Way
Wikipedia

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“One of the things I always saw was business plans but not trying the model out and testing. So the best advice I can give to other entrepreneurs is really along the lines of some of your questions, is get the model started, figure it out before scaling it up”…[Listen for More]

More About Jason Stowe:

Cycle Computing

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.” Ayn Rand

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