Casey Kuhlman is the CEO of Monax Industries, an open platform for small businesses to create, prove, and operate their legal agreements. Prior to co-founding Monax, Casey was the head of legal information systems at the U.S. Open Data Institute.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- None
- An amalgamation of different people
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the idea that blockchain technologies could be used by businesses was completely foreign in the market place…the biggest challenge for our company was to find the pathway that could open two prongs that we needed in order to get where we are today. One of those prongs is how do we build this brand-new technology; how do we contribute to the various strands of opensource in a fundamental way that helps get our company to the direction where we wanted it to be. And then on the other side of the prong how do we start to move the market zeitgeist away from where it was in 2014 where we started, which was very crypto currency focused, to a more nuanced understanding of how this technology could be leveraged by businesses to do various different things beyond me just sending you some tokens that represent some value”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Nelson’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander Book by Jonathan Gosling and Stephanie JonesFavourite Quote:
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” – David Farragut
Recommended Online Resources:
- Both Sides of the Table – is a website dedicated to issues facing entrepreneurs, technologists and the venture capital industry. Both Sides of the Table is a blog that offers advice to entrepreneurs on running start-up companies and provides transparency on the venture capital industry. It is written by Mark Suster who founded and ran 2 technology companies (the second of which was sold to Salesforce.com) and is now a VC based in Los Angeles, CA. Mark has lived and worked in the US, Europe and Japan.
- AVC
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Just do it is my best advice … Be heads down. Deliver value and then talk about it rather than reversing those two. And then think very very clearly about what you are doing. And then finally build a team that disputes you and that complements you in a manner that is not becoming yes humans”…[Listen for More]
More About Casey Kuhlman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
- “Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.” Edvard Westermarck
- Other Quotes From the Chat with Casey Kuhlman:
- “I enjoy building things. For most of my life I have liked the idea of starting with an idea and bring that idea into the real world”
- “when we started we were very motivated, we were very gung-ho”
- “we are a four year old company now and I have been learning every single day along that way“
- “analyse, analyse, analyse, do go with fads”
- “really focusing on delivering value in to your target market”
- “that ability to understand what are we trying to accomplish and how do I get there is vitally important when you are building an early stage start-up”
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