{"id":47486,"date":"2023-10-20T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/three-things-young-entrepreneurs-need-according-to-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:53:53","slug":"three-things-young-entrepreneurs-need-according-to-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/three-things-young-entrepreneurs-need-according-to-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things young entrepreneurs need, according to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To give themselves the best shot at success, young entrepreneurs need three things in their teams, according to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak; a desire to build a business, an engineer that can solve problems, and someone who wants to own the product they\u2019re building.<\/p>\n

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Speaking at the Australian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s Alpha Conference in Melbourne yesterday, Wozniak said young founders were his \u201cfavourite people in the world\u201d and gave some tips on how they could place themselves in the best possible position to succeed.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re not an engineer, find one<\/b> <\/h2>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have engineering, you don\u2019t have a good product,\u201d Wozniak says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo the person who says I\u2019ve gone to business school, I know how to write business plans, helps with ideas for products that other people want. Well (they) should work on it with an engineer, because engineers have been taught to solve problems, be clever, and come up with ideas that other people wouldn\u2019t necessarily think of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Build a team that wants to use your product<\/b><\/h2>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re in entrepreneurship mode, please have somebody that wants to create products for other people,\u201d Wozniak says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHave engineers that can design it, and have somebody who wants to be an owner themselves.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLook at the greatest products that came out of Apple and they were built by Steve Jobs for himself \u2013 that\u2019s what stopped the iPhone from being overblown and full of functionality.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLook at Tesla \u2013 that is really designed for Elon Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Find a great investor<\/b> <\/h2>\n

\u201cWhen we started (Apple) we were lucky to have an incredible starting project, which a lot of companies do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSteve and I were very young, we had no money, no savings account, we had no business experience. We hadn\u2019t taken any business classes in a university. We were just kind of going by what we felt right but we had an investor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd that\u2019s what\u2019s really important too because we knew we had a product that eventually would sell over1000 a month and we had to be able to build 1000 a month.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur investors joined us and told us, here is how you set up a tech company, here are the positions you hire. He knew how to run a company.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd he said marketing is important, he would run marketing, and he educated, he mentored and tutored Steve Jobs in a lot of the marketing principles that Steve Jobs became so well acknowledged for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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