Patrick Henry is the CEO of QuestFusion and has over 25 years experience in managing high technology companies. As CEO of Entropic, he took the company from a pre-revenue and pre-product phase, to a successful NASDAQ listed public company. Patrick has a bachelor in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- John D Rockefellor
- Thomas Edison
- Dale Carnegie
- Andy Grove
- Larry Page co-founder of Google
- Sergey Brin co-founder of Google
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I didn’t feel like I was capable and qualified to run a company and do all those things and I didn’t take the route where straight out of college or in college and I started a business, I worked in the corporate world for some time before I ran my first company and I was kind of adult supervision, or the person who comes in to help the founders take it from an idea to growing their business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Lead the Field Book by Earl Nightingale
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) Book by Clayton M Christensen
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers Book by Geoffrey A. Moore
Favourite Quote:
“Whatever we plant in our sub conscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Twitter lists
- Linkedin – is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.
- Quora – is a place to gain and share knowledge. It’s a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get into action, I think that there’s a tendency to sort of over plan and I think while planning is very important, getting into action and interaction with customers, getting feedback, refining the plan, continuing to drive forward, having that biased towards action I think is very important but do it intelligently, have a focus”…[Listen for More]
More About Patrick Henry:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?” Aidan Chambers
Other Quotes From the Chat with Patrick Henry:
- “You can’t let the shiny objects distract you”
- “People without goals are kind of like a boat in the water without a rudder dropped in to give them direction”
- “There is no substitute for hard work”
- “You got to work hard in the right direction”
- “You got to stay teachable”
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