SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR – WHY START IDEA TO GROWTH LLC?

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR – WHY START IDEA TO GROWTH LLC?

❏ Today I am writing about Serial Entrepreneur – Why Start Idea To Growth LLC? Why am I starting yet another company?

First of all, I’m a Startup Guy. I retired from my 25-year post-college career working in Semiconductors in 2005. Financially, I had done quite well over my career and yearned for something different. So, I spent the next ten years exploring a variety of interests. These included Business Coaching, Investing in Real Estate, Buying Oil Wells, Building Websites, and others.

Most of all, the primary experience I enjoyed was Business Coaching. During my long Serial Entrepreneurial career, I gathered a lot of business experience. Hiring. Firing. How to start a company. How to shut down a firm. Choosing co-founders. Vetting vendors. I raised nearly $100M in Venture Capital. Bottom line – I’ve made a lot of both good and poor decisions. Using this experience to help other Entrepreneurs is what I enjoy.

Since college, I’ve also been writing software at the Georgia Institute of Technology and building some websites. In business life today, a well-designed site is critical to nearly every type of business. So, in early 2016, I teamed up with Linda Olson, founder and CEO of the Tampa Bay Wave. She runs Tampa’s premier high-technology accelerator and incubator. You can think of it as Florida’s rising Y-Combinator of Silicon Valley. In February 2016, I joined Linda as the third of “the WaVE’s” Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. So, for 10 hours a week, I’m using my experience to coach the WaVE’s 60 high-technology startups.

A Team is Formed

So, it was time for Serial Entrepreneur to “do his thing.”. In May 2016 my son Kyle joined us in Tampa FL moving from San Jose, CA. I started teaching him full-stack web development while updating myself on the latest tools. Additionally, I was beginning to take on outside Business Executive Coaching gigs. On my birthday on January 22, 2017, I went online and legally created Idea To Growth LLC. I’m using this company to run my Coaching, Website Design and Hosting business formally.