Working for a large consulting firm in Chicago, I felt that I was missing out on a great revolution brewing a few hundred miles away, and so, on a whim, a colleague of mine and I packed our bags, rented a U-Haul truck and drove to the Silicon Valley with the dream of starting a company. It turned out that we had no clue about starting a business whatsoever and so, after bouncing around for six months, I decided to join a start-up. By then, I was convinced that I wanted to be an entrepreneur, no matter how long it took. I made one of the smartest decisions of my life by choosing to work only in
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