starting a business and finding your niche
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Presentation delivered at UC Berkeley GIF Lab to graduate students interested in starting their own geospatial technology services business.TRANSCRIPT
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Catherine Burton
Managing Partner, Endpoint Environmental LLC
UC Berkeley GIF LAB
December 1, 2011
Start ing A Business and Finding Your Niche
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1. Personal History
2. Starting A Business
3. Finding A Niche
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Personal History
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ResourcefulnessEducation v.
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Passion is the
motive of the act
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Love Remote Sensing Image
Analysis
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Locate Tire Piles from Space
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Starting A Business
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Imagination is more powerful
than knowledge
-Albert Einstein
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Seek Advice
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Business is about Money
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Location
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Never Stop Looking for Work
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50% of all businesses fail in the first 5 years.
May take 2 years to become profitable.
Government contracts may take 12 months to begin.
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What’s your Albatross?
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Give Yourself Time to Reflect
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Finding A Niche
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Keep your eyes and your mind open to new streams of revenue
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It’s not what you do but what you don’t do.
- Apple
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There’s an old Hindu saying that comes into my mind occasionally:
“For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your
life, your habits make you.”
– Steve Jobs, 1985 interview with Playboy Magazine
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Endpoint Environmental
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Endpoint CreedThe Customer is KING
The answer is YESWe do it as a TEAM
We are RESPONSIBLEWe have to WORK HARD
We have to LOVE what we doWe welcome COMPETITION
We will adjust to CHANGEWe will pay attention to DETAILS
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Meat and Potatoes
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Tire Piles
Input original satellite
image
= Known tire sites
= New tire sites
= output from TIRe Model
Final map with road
layer
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Invasive Species
1 2 3
4 65
7 8 9
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In Closing
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Find Success Through Failure
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In general, people want you to do well.
The only person who gives up on you is you.
Life is full of second chances.
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