Starting Your Own Business as an Academic | 7 Key Questions to Ask Yourself

In this episode of Navigating Academia, Dr. Singh discusses the seven key questions that you need to ask yourself before starting your own business as an academic. You are an academic interested in starting your own company. I've been there myself and I know there's that unique combination of excitement and ambivalence especially if you have no business background at all. You are not sure where to actually start and it can be really daunting. My hope is that by asking yourself these 7 questions it will help you with your framework in terms of deciding whether or not this is something that you want to do. And if it is something you want to do, it will give you things to think about so you can make sure you have a successful launch and the best experience possible.

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Jay Phoenix Singh, Ph.D., Ph.D. is a Fulbright Scholar, faculty at both UPenn as well as Cambridge, and the internationally award-winning Founder of the Global Institute of Forensic Research (successful 2017 exit as CEO).

Author of over 75 peer-reviewed articles and books, he completed his graduate doctoral studies in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and clinical psychology at Universitat Konstanz. He was named the youngest tenured Full Professor in Norway in 2014 and, since this time, has become the only psychology professor to have lectured for all eight Ivy League universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn) as well as both Oxford and Cambridge. Dr. Singh is a charismatic academic mentor and coach who uses evidence-based practices to improve the lives of academics of all levels.

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