Last week we had a guest speaker of the person Brain Forth. Brain is a technology entrepreneur, he is the founder and CEO of SiteCrafting. SiteCrafting like the name implies is a technology company that created websites for business. SiteCrafting also does a couple of other web application development.
Brian Forth graduated from Gonzaga University and became a teacher at the archdiocese of Seattle where he taught for about 5 years. He later quit his job as a teacher to fully focus on his company SiteCrafting.
SiteCrafting was founded in 1998 when Brian Forth still a teacher at the archdiocese of Seattle. He later quit his teaching job to focus more on his business because he realized that his business was bringing in more income than his full time job. This is a very big decision and should serve as a motivation us the students, we have to know the right time to quit. If Brian had quit his day job too early wouldn't have enough money to continue his business, and if he had quit his job too late, he wouldn't have given enough time to his business. So as entrepreneurs, we have to know the right time to make a decision.
He also founded a second company that is a spin off of SiteCrafting called gearbox. Gearbox is a R&D technology company that uses research to help company know how to improve their software. GearBox is staffed by 3 UW students and is currently working with a bunch of really good clients. Brian talked a lot about learning to weave through and tolerate obstacles. He recommends that we read the book, The Obstacle is the way.
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