Your most important support staff
Engineers and an expert sales team are valuable to entrepreneurs, but the most important members of the team are supportive members of your family, says Frank Levinson, founder of Finisar. In this talk, given as part of an entrepreneur thought leader lecture at Stanford University many years ago, Levinson recounts a Christmas day when his family postponed opening presents to help customers – and keep the business moving forward.
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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
