chapter two
2 Making the jump to start a company
This anecdote covers
- Do you have the “itch” to create a startup and should you scratch that itch?
- My story about quitting my professor job and moving to Silicon Valley to scratch mine
- Make sure you remove the emotion just for a bit and decide if you realistically have the basis for a new startup
- Finding people who can help [hint: LinkedIn can help more than you think]
I didn’t recognize it then, when wading ankle deep in thousands of tiny processors on a two-foot square circuit board at my Duke University lab in 1987, but looking back, I realize I had the restlessness—or maybe the “itch”—of someone looking for the opportunity to start my own company. I just had no idea what that could be, or how to do it, yet.