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How do I know if I have what it takes to start a business?

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Fred Glave, David Krauskopf

Fred Glave has over 40 years experience in the telecommunications industry.  Beginning in the research and development area, he successively moved through positions in engineering, marketing, general management and senior officer positions with Nortel Networks.

He founded a new venture-financed company in Silicon Valley and went on from there as a senior executive and CEO in several telecommunications enterprises.  He has had extensive experience in international marketing and been the lead initiator in several technology and corporate acquisitions or partnerships.

Mr. Glave’s strengths lie in all phases of technology management, and he is knowledgeable at the working level with all aspects of telecommunication management.

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto in Electrical Engineering and holds a Masters degree from MIT and a PhD from Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.

Since retiring from his last position in 2002 he has been active as a counselor with SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Reston Chamber of Commerce Incubator Program and is currently a mentor to two of the companies participating in that program.  He is also a member of the volunteer docent staff at the Library of Commerce.

How do I know if I have what it takes to start a business?

David Krauskopf of SCORE explains how you will know if you are ready to start a business.

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David Krauskopf: Hello, I am David Krauskopf, a SCORE Counselor and we are counselors to America's Small Business and in our video series on how to start a business, this video is related to how to decide if you are an entrepreneur.

Host: How do I know if I have what it takes to start a business?

David Krauskopf: In our SCORE organization we work with thousands of people like yourself who are trying to make the decision, do I have what it takes, do I want to start a business and be an entrepreneur. They come from all blocks of life. There are young and old, there are experienced and unexperienced, there are educated and not so educated. These types of background things are not so important. As examining yourself on a few key issues is that we feel are common for almost all people and looking at starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur and that's what I am talking about here.

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