{"id":48121,"date":"2023-10-20T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/startupsmart-hits-san-francisco-becoming-a-tech-entrepreneur-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:57:21","slug":"startupsmart-hits-san-francisco-becoming-a-tech-entrepreneur-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/startupsmart-hits-san-francisco-becoming-a-tech-entrepreneur-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"StartupSmart Hits San Francisco: Becoming a tech entrepreneur &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/StartupSmart-Hits-San-Fran-BlueWolf-episode-2-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"StartupSmart Hits San Francisco episode two starring BlueWolf\" title=\"StartupSmart Hits San Fran BlueWolf episode 2\"><\/div>\n<p>In episode two of our StartupSmart Hits San Francisco video series, we hear from innovative business leaders Jolene Chan and Aniqa Tariq, whose combined experience in the tech sector spans more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to themselves as \u201cold cloud\u201d, Chan and Tariq now head IBM-owned company BlueWolf as global chief of staff and managing director for Australia and New Zealand, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They discuss what it takes to make tough calls as an entrepreneur, and even address those confronting comments made by tech investor and artist Will.i.am on the lack of diversity in the sector. You\u2019ll see a snippet of his talk in the interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/advice\/leadership-advice\/william-calls-out-lack-of-diversity-at-dreamforce-and-implores-tech-community-to-give-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read more: Will.i.am calls out lack of diversity at Dreamforce<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes that fear of that unknown as an entrepreneur or somebody starting a business is good,\u201d says Tariq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re not feeling that fear in you belly, it\u2019s probably not a good thing, so you\u2019ve got to push a little harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FStartUpSmart%2Fvideos%2F1189206537783836%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/watch-listen\/zuora-founder-tien-tzuo-on-the-secret-to-building-unicorn-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In episode one of this series,&nbsp;learn how to spot a $1 billion business idea with subscription business pioneer Tien Tzuo<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Music by: Bensound.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode two of our StartupSmart Hits San Francisco video series, we hear from innovative business leaders Jolene Chan and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,1,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}