from point a to z with a winding road in between

i co-wrote this article about how there isn’t always a straight path to follow in becoming an entrepreneur. (written for technori, an online magazine.)

NO EXIT

Jeff Leitner’s Long Strange Journey Has Only Just Begun. (Again.)

JEFF LEITNER DOESN’T HAVE AN EXIT STRATEGY. He doesn’t believe in them.

“In business schools and in business plans, they ask for exit strategies,” Leitner says. “I find that absurd. What I’ve learned at every stage in my career is that I learn more on the first day of doing whatever it is I’m doing than I will ever learn by planning for it.”

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