HTE 049: The Evolutionary Process of Business w/ Jay Gould

Today’s guest is a serial tech entrepreneur, husband, father and investor. He has been starting businesses online for a long time — some have failed, some have succeed in a massive way. In 2005, he sold his first business InterMedia, to Bolt Media and joined Bolt as its President. During his time at Bolt he co-founded WikiYou, which raised $500,000 from investors. He went on and co-founded Yashi, a pioneer in the online video advertising industry and today is an award winning advertising technology company. Yashi has been named Inc. Magazine's 5000 list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for three consecutive years, as well as numerous other awards. In 2014, he was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award finalist. Now, let’s hack… Jay Gould.

What you will learn in this episode:

Dealing with too many ideas and not enough time and resources How Jay’s discovery of email and chat rooms led him to online business Why and how Jay became one of the best line backers on New Jersey (hint: he wasn't) How Jay has taken ideas from other people and turned them into businesses 

Resources and links mentioned:

Yashi Jay’s blog Corey Rudl on Entrepreneur.com Raj Kappor FitMob  Jay on Twitter Jon on Twitter Today's Awesome Sponsor: FreshBooks (30-day Free Trial)