Guest Speaker: Brian Forth

About guest speaker Brian Forth

April 18, 2012

If someone asked me to list the keywords that best describe Brian, the list would look like this:

ENTREPRENEUR, SUCCESS, HARD WORK, SITECRAFTING, RISK TAKING, MONEY, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION ...

Brian didn't simply tell us his story and his experience as an entrepreneur. He brought with him to our class all his passion that he has in doing his job. His enourmous zeal was so obvious, that I could feel that he really likes what he is doing. He enjoys his job. He lives and breathes site crafting.

He is a true entrepreneur. Thank you professor Andrew Fry for inviting him to our class for the lecture. Brian is a very bright example of what entrepreneurship looks like. Most of all in his story I liked him as a business person. I would work for his company (for a while only, untill I begin my own adventure :). He has the knowledge and skills, does his job well; he is passionate about what he is doing; he also found the right people to do business with (he was saying how much he values his present employees).

One of the signs that signaled that he has that "crazy passion" about his job was his words: "I would go and work any physical labor (like lawn mowing) to be able to pay his bills or his employees." I need to think about this: if I start something to do, am I that passionate about it so that I would work somewhere else if needed (physical labor) to sustain the business in tough times to keep it going?

That's probably one of the pH test strips about being a true entrepreneur. Is your goal making money or creating something novel and new, change the world, make an impact?