John Exley at CEO

John Exley at CEO

About a week back, I spoke at the annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs Conference in Chicago. Every year, 1500 college students that are interested in entrepreneurship flood the conference with more enthusiasm then you have every seen. I met the young superstar entrepreneurs  like John Exley, Matt Wilson, Jared O’Toole, and Michael Simmons.

After talking to the students for awhile, you realize that our future is safe with them. They realize that if they are going to have a strong future, they need to make a job for themselves throught starting a company and not depend on getting one. In the future, we need to build the one asset we all have control over- our personal brand that will make us profitable in the future.