Our spotlight interview this month is with Ray Leach, CEO of JumpStart, Inc.
JumpStart was formed to accelerate the growth of early-stage ideas into venture ready companies in the Northeast Ohio region.
Ray has 20 years experience leading high-growth entrepreneurial organizations.
His career began at IBM and has been principally focused on information technology previous to JumpStart. Ray is a Sloan Fellow and earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He also serves on the boards of the Council of Competitiveness in Washington DC, the Red Cross Blood Services of Northern Ohio, the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association and is the Chairman of the Invent Now Kids board of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Takeaway Points:
*Successful people are not successful because they’re in the right place at the right time. Successful people recognize the opportunities before them and take action.
*No entrepreneur can meet all the needs of a business. If you can find someone who compliments, yet challenges, your unique style, take advantage of their counsel when weighing important business decisions.
*Trust is vital if you hope to be successful in a business partnership
*Success favors the prepared. Ray prepared by mastering his particular field of expertise. If you know your industry better than anyone else, you’ll be the expert that everyone will look to for counsel and advise.
*Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
-Mark Twain
*One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have not certainty until you try.
-Aristotle
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