Tim Bornholdt
Building a company comes with a learning curve for any entrepreneur. Building an app-based company as a non-technical entrepreneur can make that learning curve sharper. Mike Jackson, founder of The Premium Experience, joins the show to discuss his experience building a tech based business as a solo, non-technical founder and how it prepared him for the launch of his next company, Black Tech Talent. Mike shares what he wishes he’d known when he first had an idea and didn’t know where to start, how he pivoted his focus when the global pandemic shut down his company’s growth plans, and how he’s opening doors by educating different viewpoints on hiring Black talent.
In this episode, you will learn:
- What non-technical founders should know about the MVP process and working with tech people
- How to filter through the noise of investors to see if they’re honest with their process
- How Mike’s experience building a tech-based business prepared him for founding Black Tech Talent
- Why there’s a misrepresentation of Blacks in technology and the pipeline Black Tech Talent is building to change that
- How companies and individuals can support growing the pipeline of Blacks in tech
- How to align a successful business and a moral mission together
This episode is brought to you by The Jed Mahonis Group, where we make sense of mobile app development with our non-technical approach to building custom mobile software solutions. Learn more at https://jmg.mn.
Recorded November 19, 2020 | Edited by Jordan Daoust | Produced by Jenny Karkowski
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Tim’s favorite Steve Jobs’s quote
