Week 3: Very Short Interview No.1

Week 3: Very Short Interview 1

I chose to interviewed Adam Brown. Adam Brown is an entrepreneur  who founded the social media strategy firm, Sircle Media. Adam Brown is an entrepreneur because he saw the gap in the way businesses interact on social media. He realized that businesses have trouble managing and interacting on social media and this gap needed to filled. He founded a firm to solve this problem. Brown is a specialist in social media and all of the writing forms it contains. As the founder of social media strategy firm Sircle, Brown told Creator that one of his favorite parts of his job is getting “to play entrepreneur on various projects daily.”

1.     What should my expectations be in this course?

“You should definitely keep an open mind and realize that this may be unlike many of your other classes. You should learn by doing and learn from other people’s experiences. I think that by the end of the course, you should expect to have a totally different mindset.

2.     What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?

“I think that for someone to be an entrepreneur, they need to be all in, right from the start. If you approach it hesitantly and little by little, you will either fail or simply never scale in a meaningful way. You must believe that what you are doing is changing the way believe live, think and communicate.”

3.     What do you think I should learn in this entrepreneurship course?

“I think you should learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. You should learn that you need to be all in, right from the start. If you approach it hesitantly and little by little, you will either fail or simply never scale in a meaningful way. Anybody who does is definitely not the norm. It is daunting to see how many different elements you need to juggle on a minute-by-minute basis: recruiting, sales, business development, product development, marketing, HR, billing, customer service, and the list goes on and on. If you aren’t on top of all of these thing at a high level as you build, your brand can crumble. So much goes into it beyond the product and/or service you offer. You need to learn that entrepreneurship is a mindset, not just a product or service”

This interview was very rewarding for me. Before the interview, I thought that I already knew the answers to the questions I planned on asking. To my surprise, I was wrong.  The interview opened my eyes as to what I should expect from this class as well as the meaning of what it means to be an entrepreneur.