Barry Nalls describes the lessons learned in the course of his 25-year career - his growth in CCD and short business - and how they prepared him to found MASERGY, telecommunications startup. Even as a child in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard worker, but instead of becoming an entrepreneur himself, he built a long career in "the biggest company around," GTE. After a few years there in sales and marketing, he decided to venture out on their own. His experience GTE armed him for some business problems, but also cause additional problems when it tried to start, build and develop MASERGY. Four years after founding the company, he now feels that he has to "take a step business" much earlier in life. "Hide
by Noam Wasserman, Rachel Galper Source: Harvard Business School 23 pages. Publication Date: June 24, 2008. Prod. #: 808167-PDF-ENG
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