[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, August 2008]
An entrepreneurship professor at the BYU Marriott School of Management told BYU-Hawaii business students they don’t necessarily need a lot of experience, exceptional training or even much money to start a successful business.
Gary Williams [pictured at right], a successful entrepreneur in Utah before joining the BYU business school faculty three years ago, shared three principles on Sept. 23 with the BYU-Hawaii students that could help them “evolve into entrepreneurs.”
Number one: “Don’t kill yourself trying to change the world.”
“Some of the best companies out there didn’t change the world,” said Williams, who encouraged budding BYU-Hawaii entrepreneurs to “search for the not so elusive angle, or new twists on something that already exists.”