Leonard Chung is the founder/CEO of Hello Chava, a company reimagining productivity tools for the solo professional. A serial entrepreneur, Leonard has identified emerging markets and launched successful products in collaboration, cloud computing, and big data.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None Specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Deciding what to do, if you take a start up, you have to be focussed, you have to know and crystallise in your head what you think the future is going to look like and then place a bet on that future. That’s incredibly hard to do and hard to create, not only that full picture of this world but then one that you can sell and convince others to join you on that journey”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone book by Mark GoulstonFavourite Quote:
“All the forces in the world are not as powerful as an idea whose time has come”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Medium – a place where words matter Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest takes on topics that matter So whatever your interest, you can always find fresh thinking and unique perspectives
- Quora – is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users. Its publisher, Quora Inc., is based in Mountain View, California.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Network network network. Know that you’re not alone and using that network, leverage it, it is a hard journey, fundamentally a worthwhile one but a hard journey and it’s much easier when you have other people and you join forces with the other people who are going down that road with you. While it may feel lonely at times, its only lonely if you make it”…[Listen for More]
More About Leonard Chung:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I do struggle with the fact that I don’t have all the answers.” Mike May
Other Quotes From the Chat with Leonard Chung:
“Why not me?”
- “This is a rollercoaster ride, and it’s as much a rollercoaster ride that is as much about business as it is about emotions and personal development”
- “So many of us take success as defined by other people, and use that as the metric. Entrepreneurs get it a little more than folks who are just climbing the corporate ladder in a business but to use the example, you join a big company and they will tell you what success means, they will tell you what it takes to get to that next level but what they really mean is what it means to them, what getting to the next level means, to them. It’s easy to forget that that’s not necessarily what success is for you”
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