Want to be a CEO? Try product management first
Launching your own business is a daunting task – and one that can make even the most confident entrepreneur doubt his or her skills. Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, in this entrepreneur-though-leadership lecture given at Stanford University, says the skills he picked up in his previous role as a product manager have been the ones he has used the most in his current position. However, he cautions, the key to this on-the-job training is to move slowly and collect experience from several world-class companies before launching your own venture.
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Chris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge
