917: Validating Your Concept in the Market Place as Early as You can with Jeff Wilkins Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Motili Inc

Jeff Wilkins is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and sold seven tech start-ups in the enterprise software, e-commerce and Internet advertising industries. Jeff currently serves as the founding CEO and a Director of Motili, Inc. Motili provides property owners/managers with the easiest, most cost-effective maintenance, repair, and replacement solution nationwide. The Motili platform manages the entire workflow for repair or replacement from start to finish – from selecting the right contractor for the job, to ordering and delivering equipment, through job completion and invoicing. Motili currently services over two million homes and properties

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Richard Branson
• Elon Musk
• Thomas Eddison

When business started difficulties overcame:

“Trying to put together a solution in which we were on board and contractors to supply labour only in this environment and to be essentially sub contracting work from us to serve the needs of these national customers was a bit different”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Book by Clayton Christensen
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant Book by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim

Favourite Quote:

“I never would have seen it if I didn’t believe it”

Recommended Online Resources:

Linkedin – is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Be flexible, it doesn’t matter how much you prepare your plans are going to evolve and change”…[Listen for More]

More About Jeff Wilkins:

Motili LLC

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don’t really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.” Matthew Fox

Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeff Wilkins:

• “Starting a business is in some ways an act of faith, analysis is a must but at some point you have to dive in and get started and if you don’t have that faith you never will get going”
• “Validating your concept in the market place as early as you can”

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