Dave Arnold is the founder and President of Arnold Partners, the leading independent CFO search firm for technology companies nationwide. Since starting Arnold Partners in 2008 his placed CFO’s have helped clients realize over $11Billion in increased value. Dave’s first foray into self employment was mowing lawns at the age of 8!
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“About 2 months before I started my own business, I purchased a home with my wife and we tripled our mortgage payment and 2 months later I came home and told her I was going to quit my high paying job to start my own business and I think that was a moment of truth, not only for me starting my own business but for my marriage, fortunately my wife has been extremely supportive although she did think I’d lost my mind”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice Book by Alan Weiss
- Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies/Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Civilizations Book by Lawrence M. Miller
Favourite Quote:
- “Your health is your wealth”
- “Listen twice as much as you speak”
Recommended Online Resources:
- PR Leads – Get Publicity with PR LEADS; Publicity Strategy, Marketing, And Branding For Small Businesses.
- Glassdoor – Search millions of jobs and get the inside scoop on companies with employee reviews, personalised salary tools, and more Hiring Post a job for free.
- Linkedin – is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.
- CB Insights – The CB Insights venture capital database catches every private company financing and angel investment database Get real time information on start-ups, VC firms, angel investors and transactions in the United States Spo new deals, sales leads, prospects, and unlock the playbooks of competing venture capital companies.
- Crunchbase – Discover with Crunchbase Pro. Discover: search companies, investors & people to grow your business. Track: monitor the companies or investors you care about.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be tenacious and do it with ethics and that’s really it, you cannot survive as an entrepreneur unless you’re tenacious and you have drive, don’t do it at the expense of other people, some of the recent meltdowns that we’ve seen in silicon valley with the founder of Uber and the founder of Zenefits and some of these others guys, their drive is so hard but they don’t drive necessarily the right way and so don’t build a business at any expense, build a business that you’re really proud of and you would be proud for anybody to look at and feel really good about”…[Listen for More]
More About Dave Arnold:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.” Source Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dave Arnold:
- “Any success is not easy”
- “Anything worth doing there’s competitors’ doing it already, they’ve been doing it longer, they’ve been doing it better, even if you have a new widget, someone else is building a new widget down the street, I don’t care what business you’re in, business is hard”
- “I believe in hard work, I’ve always been a hard worker, but I also believe in smart work”
- “If you’re not improving then I think you’re going to fail”
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