What's Your Motivation

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on August 25, 2009

BusinessWeek had a great piece early this month on what motivates an entrepreneur.

The article was an interview with Bob Crane, aged 58, who has run the company he started (C Crane) for teh past 26 years. The company can best be described as a "gadget maker." A Successful gadget maker. Just the story of how the company got started gives you a glimpse into the inspirational nature of the article:

My wife and I started C. Crane at the kitchen table in 1983 with $300. I had owned a contracting firm in the Bay Area, but we moved out to the country-Fortuna is about 250 miles away from Portland, Ore.-and couldn't get our favorite radio stations. So we developed an antenna for a radio and started a business selling them as a sideline.

You can read the piece here.


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