1. Dale Callahan November 19, 2018
Entrepreneur in You
Dale Callahan November 19, 2018

2. Introduction Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Previous “corporate” gig BellSouth Science and Technology
Dale Callahan
Introvert
Rebel
Not a team player

3. General ideas of this series
YES YOU CAN!
Find you calling/passion
Key areas of opportunity
Ideas or opportunities
Critical questions everyone asks
Steps (Baby Steps) to startup
Helping coach you through the process

4. Acting on your calling is the critical factor for success
1. Calling - KEY IDEA
Acting on your calling is the critical factor for success
PASSION

5. 1. Calling
“The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” Frederick Buechner

6. 1. Calling
Dan Miller defines as Calling / Career / Job

7. 1. Calling
Calling
What you are uniquely gifted to do and love to do. How you want to serve others.
Does not have to have a connection to money!

8. 1. Calling
Career How you make a living from your calling.

9. 1. Calling
Job What you are doing now to make a living.

10. 1. Calling - What is your CORE
Your CORE are principles you believe. The truths that never go away. Calling, Career, Jobs subject to change

11. 1. Calling Fundamental truth driving the CORE
“Humans have 100% mortality rate” Randy Alcorn

12. 1. Calling - Big Three CORES
All from nothing – all to nothing
“Party all the time”
Be good and return to Eternal Heaven
“be good”
You are never good enough – you need a savior
“Trust the Savior”

13. 1. Calling
CORE
Calling
Career
Job

14. 1. Calling – Your big explore
Will not get from listening to me!
Use pen and paper (FIRST PAGE)
What do you love to do?
What do others ask you for help with?
What do you love to read?
What do you think about?
How do you spend your money?
What did you want to do as a kid?

15. 1. Calling Second page List 20 ways to make money doing them.
Third page
Who is doing it now?

16. 1. Calling AskDrCallahan Example

17. Dale Callahan, Ph.D., P.E. November 19, 2018
Flow
Quick introduction of me and program
What is IT and IEM and how are they different.
The IT industry – what is it?
History of how IT got started. (Get quotes of how computers will not be that big or that great.)
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing's is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957
"But what...is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC
"Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple." - Byte, December 1994
Move to how IT controls budgets and makes or breaks companies (examples)
Why?……..
4. Start with what has IT become to mean?
IT has become the same as technicians (mechanics)
Cisco, MS and other certifications
5. But why is IT needed?
- IT is not the company
- IT supports the company and is (usually) not the key business.
6. What is engineering?
- A focus on the end goal
- Not about flash but function
7. Compare to the typical IT endeavors
- Cartoon on washing machines
- Microsoft vs GM debate (
8 . The job – trying to match business processes with IT technology and deal with internal politics and budgets
- Herding cats
9. Deliver the data
- Standish
- Interviews we had
10. Now why IEM?
- Some of the problems with the people.