How do I: find out a personality profile

June 6, 2018May 16, 2020Leave a comment

Ever wonder if there is a way to classify different personalities? What is your personality prifile? What is the personality profile of the person you are interacting with?

There are few simple assessments for this. According to the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), there are 16 personality profiles.

Over 10 years ago, I took this very insightful personality assessment along with all of my fellow co-workers at the sam time.

This month, I took this personality testing again, and my profile has not changed to this day.

What is your personality profile?

Find out your MBTI profile for free at https://www.16personalities.com

Find out your DISC assessment for free at https://www.crystalknows.com/disc-personality-test

There is no right nor wrong answer. Your personality is yours. It is extremely hard to change it beyond the mask you wear have at work.

You will be surprised by the concrete, accurate description of who you are and why you do things the way you do. You can ask others to find out their profile for free as well.

I am a Dc on DISC and ESTJ on MBTI.

What is your personality profile?

Tools I Use: Competitive Intelligence and Analysis

July 12, 2017March 4, 2024Leave a comment

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As a startup advisor, I speak to dozens of startups per month. Competitive Intelligence and Analysis is one of the biggest gaps in knowledge for many entrepreneurs. They do not understand who their competitors are, how to find them, plot them, track them and understand how they differ until it is too late (and eat their lunch in front of them).

The competition did not just go away even if you think you don’t have any because you are in a new market or pushing new product/service. It should not be ignored before starting any venture or project. In fact, before I start any project I look at the competition so I can understand it, find their strategy, strengths, weakness, opportunities, and tactics (SWOT).

Rather than going on a 2000 word rant like I have in the past about how I do this and why you should too, I thought I leave it up to you by simply sharing a few books which can help you research this yourself since you have to do your own homework for your projects and ventures.

While many of the books on this topic out are amazingly out of date, there are a few books about this in the modern business world:

Questions?

Advisor at UMD Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

September 6, 2016October 22, 2016

Henrik de Gyor is now an Advisor at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, based at the Robert H. Smith School of Business in College Park, Maryland.

Henrik graduated from the University of Maryland a while back and is happy to give back to the community with his time and expertise.

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship holds Dingman Fridays which are open office hours for students and alumni to walk in and get startup advice, regardless of the stage of their business idea or their major. This is exclusively for University of Maryland faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Many universities now have an entrepreneurship center, unless they are behind the times. Today, students do not all expect to work for someone once they graduate, but rather work on their ideas before they graduate and potentially grow their own business.

To learn more about Dingman Fridays, visit http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-excellence/dingman-center-entrepreneurship/initiatives-programs/pitch-dingman

Running Startup Sprints

June 3, 2016March 7, 20201 Comment

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Just to be clear, I don’t run. These Sprints has nothing to do with physically running.

After reading the book called Sprint, this inspired me to try Sprint with a few startups.

As a mentor, I already help a number of startups so as an extension to this, Startups Ignite organized Sprints for a few startups with a small team of people with different perspectives to play the different roles the startups did already not have. Startups Ignite supplied the facilitators, myself being one of them.

What is a Sprint?

According to GV, “The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.”

Running Sprints

This 5 day Sprint process should be a great learning experience for everyone. More Sprints may be scheduled again.

I am running a 5-day startup Sprint (over two weekends 6/3 to 6/5 and 6/11 to 6/12) for 4 startups at a co-working space. Not just myself, of course, but with 20 other engaged individuals.