No stranger to business and overcoming hurdles, Leena Patidar is a minority serial entrepreneur, with over 20 years of experience as a strategic and financial expert in entrepreneurship. She has co-founded several businesses, serves on several boards of directors as an advisor, has spoken at events to inspire others, and also focuses on helping to promote charities thru the Coin Up app. In fact Coin Up CEO, Leena Patidar, recently accepted the “2017 Start Up Tech of the Year” Pinnacle Award from Athena San Diego, a prestigious women’s organization supporting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). She also holds a master’s in business administration degree from MIT/Sloan School of Business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Leena’s Dad
When business started difficulties overcame:
“You can get frustrated because you’ve spent that time and you’ve tried to incorporate certain people or teams into your company and you’ve realised it didn’t work and you spent a lot of time and money to do that and it didn’t work out, so that can be really frustrating but I think it’s part of that journey”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Book by Adam GrantFavourite Quote:
“Your gifts lie at the intersection of your passion and your skills”
Recommended Online Resources:
Catchafire – matches professionally skilled volunteers with nonprofits and social enterprises We structure our volunteer opportunities to be short term, discrete, and individual to cater to the busy lifestyles of high performing professionals
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“If you’re excited about something, it’s resonating with you and you know you have to build it you just do it and you figure things out along the way. If you run into obstacles and challenges you either pivot and build better or you speak to advisers and people who are better than you to get you through those challenges.…[Listen for More]
More About Leena Patidar:
- Coin Up App
- Coin up LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It’s your life, and you’ve got to get these answers.” Marcia Wallace
Other Quotes From the Chat with Leena Patidar:
- “If you can find a business or an idea or a concept that’s the intersection of what you’re good at but also what you love, you are so lucky to be in that space in that moment”
- “Create something to give back to the world”
- “It’s really exciting to have something inside of you which you know is meant to be built”
- “No matter what you’ll learn so much”
- “Not every entrepreneur is doing something innovative but not every innovation is done by an entrepreneur”
- “If you can fill a void where there is a need versus a want then you’re going to be in demand”
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