In 2006, Dan Roberge, along with two other partners formed Gnxcor, the corporation that created and supports Maintenance Care today. One of those partners is Dan’s long time spouse of 20 years, Laurie Roberge. Together, Dan and Laurie work side by side every day to grow Maintenance Care to be one of easiest, most accessible maintenance software tool in the marketplace.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Netflix
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Definitely for us it was financing, we worked companies that had structures, I had in those 10 years I worked at the insurance company I had 12 different bosses during that time and so I had my fill of having a boss directly to me so one thing we did not want to do is get financing from somebody who still would become our boss, we wanted to be our own owners and so it took a lot longer financing our own company”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Book by Spencer Johnson Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done – Today! Book by Brian TracyFavourite Quote:
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Never give up, if you are going to get there you need to go through all of the obstacles even if you think that you have gone through all of the obstacles you should have gone through or that you should have got there, just keep going”…[Listen for More]
More About Dan Roberge:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers’ instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.” Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dan Roberge:
“If you have the perspective that you never want to give up on wanting to get there, and success again is relative to what you determine it, you realise it when you get there but for me success is that drive to keep going despite all the doubts, having bad days, losing a customer or feeling like the competitors are doing it better”
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