675: You Make the Decision and You Live with It with Scott Harper Founder and Owner of Dialexa LLC

Scott Harper is a technology entrepreneur at his core, with an engineering and finance background. Prior to creating Dialexa in 2010, he has been a founder of several companies and worked in several early stage companies ranging from banking to consumer web to enterprise software. In 2016 Scott was recognized by Ernst & Young with the EY Emerging Technology Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 Southwest Award.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon
• Elon Musk
• Steve Jobs
• Richard Branson

When business started difficulties overcame:

“Total ignorance would probably be first out of the gate for me, starting at a young age and not having any real idea what I was doing, I think to a certain level everyone starts at that regardless of professional experience, starting a new company from scratch, literally from nothing and there’s always a learning curve and a certain amount of ignorance that comes along with that for all of us”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben Horowitz

Favourite Quote:

“You only ever experience 2 feelings in a start-up, euphoria and tears, lack of sleep enhances both”

Recommended Online Resources:

• First Round – is a seed stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies
• Andreessen Horowitz –  Software Is Eating the World

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“I’ll never forget when I was out fundraising and talking, I had 3 meetings in one day with some different investors and I asked them how much money do you think I should raise and I got 3 very different answers from all 3 very credible people and I think what you got to realise that there is no connect the dots way of doing things and there is no connect the dots way to success, there’s no such thing as good advice or bad advice there’s just advice”…[Listen for More]

More About Scott Harper:

Dialexa

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.” Seneca

Other Quotes From the Chat with Scott Harper:

• “You make the decision and you live with it”
• “One decision is not singular; it typically leads to a stream of others things and reactions to that action”
• “You don’t get to blame anyone for giving you bad advice ever”

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