ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Josh Anton is the founder of X-mode, a location services company that started out as Drunk Mode, a mobile app allowing college students to track their friends’ whereabouts during a night out. Josh parlayed that location technology into an industry leader in X-mode, and recently sold to Digital Envoy for an undisclosed amount. Josh now serves as Chief Strategy Officer with Digital Envoy. He is a 2014 UVA McIntire graduate.
We spoke with Josh about:
- Minimizing risk
- Lessons on intellectual property
- Listening to your customers
- Learning vs. earning
- Learning by doing
- Knowing yourself
- Setting quantitative goals
- Mergers/acquisitions
- Aligning incentives
- Finding co-founders
- Selling million dollar contracts
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