When I resigned with no place to go, it didn't sit well with my parents. After chatting a while, Adolphe confided his plans to start his own company. After that I went to work for him for a year. When I was a senior in college, I thought having great ideas was enough. Then I learned that I didn't know how to manage money or how to open doors to resources and people.
Technology is the easy part.
There are a lot of bright people out there and you have to set yourself apart. He started with military service in Vietnam and spent years in the Defense Department's upper management. Then I got the urge to be an entrepreneur and began tinkering with ideas. Garrett weighed his options, including staying with the government, which would allow him to retire in 10 years and be set for life. Garrett, too, discovered gaps in his entrepreneurial knowledge.