EET facilitators are highly accomplished young entrepreneurs. Speakers share their stories—both triumphs and challenges that they have faced—in addition to advice on how to leverage the entrepreneurial mindset regardless of what career path you choose.
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Joshua Bryce Newman
Joshua Bryce Newman has been called “a veritable Doogie Howser” by Forbes, and similarly praised by Time, Entrepreneur and the Wall Street Journal. He serves as CEO of Cyan Pictures, an independent film production and distribution company. Previously, Joshua built and sold two tech companies - SharkByte and Powerdime.com - and served as Managing Partner of the Silicon Ivy Venture Fund. Joshua holds a dual BS from Yale in neuroscience and computer science, and recently turned 28.
More about Joshua
Biggest obstacle overcome...
My outstanding abilities of procrastination. When I was in school, I skipped classes, turned in homework late (or not at all) and never finished my assigned reading, a set of terrible, terrible habits I brought with me into the world of business. I still haven't learned to finish my work, but I have at least figured out how to get the most important done while continuing to blindly blow off the rest.
Biggest business mistake...
Hidden elephants. When things go wrong - and, at any given time, *something* will be - the temptation is to hide it from everyone. Turns out, people are very, very forgiving - even your landlord will get over you not having the cash to pay rent for a month or three; but what people hate, what they *can't* stand, is feeling lied to, feeling kept in the dark. It's a lesson I forget and re-learn time and time again.
Biggest vice...
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
My attorney has kindly suggested I plead the fifth here.
Biggest advice for others...
Successfully building a company is a two step process: 1. Start. 2. Keep going. That's it. And the harder one is step one.
What I do for fun...
My attorney has kindly suggested I plead the fifth here, too.
Most embarrassing business moment...
What is this, Seventeen Magazine?
A rather tame one: I vividly recall, at age 20, standing in a bar with a partner in a venture fund that had just closed an investment in a company I was running, trying to figure out if it was worse to have to admit my age and get kicked out of the bar, or risk getting busted by passing my Australian fake ID.
