What I Wish I Knew Before Starting My Business – Mike Maher – Blackstone LaunchPad at Montana State University

Mike Maher is an entrepreneur at heart with experience building and cultivating multiple tech startups. In his role as a student fellow, he supports other student entrepreneurs at Blackstone LaunchPad at Montana State University. Mike believes an idea without data is just an opinion and enjoys using data to predict the future by pairing information with real world applications.

I’ve been an entrepreneur for years, but one thing remains unchanged. Entrepreneurship is intimidating. Perhaps what drives people crazy is that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all mold of how to be successful in the entrepreneurial realm. In school, we’re taught to follow analytically complicated formulas that get us to one answer. In entrepreneurship, we’re taught to be a skeptic and question things objectively, experiment, and solve problems in the form of product creation. Over the past two years, I’ve had the ability to work with Blackstone LaunchPad, an on-campus entrepreneurial resource, to develop and test my idea to get real user feedback. Here are some things that I wish I had known before getting started.

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