David Furth is President of Leap the Pond, which provides Intacct-based accounting solutions for growing organizations. He has spent the majority of his career helping companies with process improvement and software implementations. David holds an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Starting is the biggest difficulty to overcome, lots of people have ideas for a new business or a dream of setting up shop on their own but walking away from that regular paid job in my case with 2 children getting ready to head off to college that was seriously difficult, once you get started though adrenaline takes over and at first I didn’t think things seemed difficult at all so in some ways the difficulty comes later”…[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. Gerber
- The Winner within: A Life Plan for Team Players Book by Pat Riley
Favourite Quote:
“A meeting without an agenda, is a social event”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Being incredibly focussed, having a plan in place and a willingness, and this goes counter to what you’re going to hear from lots of people but a willingness to invest in your business, meaning the infrastructure, everybody is going to invest if they’re developing a product but I think the idea of investing in the infrastructure that is needed, that foundation, you can’t build a building without a solid foundation”…[Listen for More]
More About David Furth:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“does it ever get easier? is there an end to these questions? do you have any answers? will you say them to me? can you stop this unraveling? will you bring me your closure? or am I the only one who sees anymore? who sees . . . who sees . . . who sees?” David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Other Quotes From the Chat with David Furth:
- “Every meeting should have a plan, and if you want to be productive every single day and every hour of every day given how long we spend in meetings, having that agenda and that agenda for that meeting and how you’re going to achieve that objective is absolutely huge and so for us when we create an invite for a meeting we ask people to include what the objective is and at least sort of 3 agenda items, what is it we want to accomplish in the next 30 mins, the next hour, and then coming out of that meeting there should be action items with specific assignments”
- “Just because you’re a great baker does not mean you’re going to be a great owner of a bakery, just because you’re a great consultant does not mean you’re going to build a great consulting business”
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