No Vision All Drive: What I Learned from My First Company (Techstars) - Tapa dura

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DAVID BROWN has had a 30-year career starting and building sustainable companies, including Pinpoint Technologies and Techstars (with David Cohen, Brad Feld, and Jared Polis). A regular contributor to Inc. magazine, David writes on all aspects of entrepreneurship and scaling up businesses for sustainable profitability from the vantage point of a founder, an investor, and the CEO of Techstars. He has a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. A ski instructor in the past, David still enjoys hitting the slopes on a good powder day. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and family.

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Starting with just $50 dollars each, David Brown and David Cohen created Pinpoint Technologies, the first Windows-based ambulance dispatching system. Working in a fast-paced and demanding industry experiencing rapid consolidation, Brown provides a personal, honest, and forthcoming account of the early struggles, risks, and key principles that led to Pinpoint's long-term growth, sustainability, and acquisition by ZOLL Medical Corporation.

No Vision All Drive is more than a chronological telling of Pinpoint Technologies and Brown shows how relying on a superior technology can be a short-lived advantage. Instead, the founders of Pinpoint Technologies worked relentlessly to incorporate features customers demanded, risking personal income, sharing living space, and moving around the country to get a foothold in the highly competitive, fast-changing, ambulance dispatching industry.

In No Vision All Drive Brown provides an unconventional blueprint that other startups and scale-ups can use to create long-term sustainability. For example, Pinpoint Technologies wasn't located where the customers were plentiful, but where the founders wanted to live. The founders, with no real business experience, created the culture they wanted: they hired friends and people they liked, had flexible work hours, had no dress code, and few rules. They ended up creating an ethos of honesty and transparency with customers, vendors, and employees that not only helped Pinpoint, but has also been a big reason for the success at their latest startup, Techstars.

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Starting with just $50 dollars each, David Brown and David Cohen created Pinpoint Technologies, the first Windows-based ambulance dispatching system. Working in a fast-paced and demanding industry experiencing rapid consolidation, Brown provides a personal, honest, and forthcoming account of the early struggles, risks, and key principles that led to Pinpoint's long-term growth, sustainability, and acquisition by ZOLL Medical Corporation.

No Vision All Drive is more than a chronological telling of Pinpoint Technologies and Brown shows how relying on a superior technology can be a short-lived advantage. Instead, the founders of Pinpoint Technologies worked relentlessly to incorporate features customers demanded, risking personal income, sharing living space, and moving around the country to get a foothold in the highly competitive, fast-changing, ambulance dispatching industry.

In No Vision All Drive Brown provides an unconventional blueprint that other startups and scale-ups can use to create long-term sustainability. For example, Pinpoint Technologies wasn't located where the customers were plentiful, but where the founders wanted to live. The founders, with no real business experience, created the culture they wanted: they hired friends and people they liked, had flexible work hours, had no dress code, and few rules. They ended up creating an ethos of honesty and transparency with customers, vendors, and employees that not only helped Pinpoint, but has also been a big reason for the success at their latest startup, Techstars.