Nearly four years ago, I decided to leave a director role at eBay to
join a small 4-person team called RockYou. At the time, a lot of folks
told me I was making the wrong decision. Several questioned whether
social media was a fad, if we would ever make money at it, and the value
of a service that existed as a ‘feature’ for another site. Four years
later, conventional wisdom would argue the opposite.
Six months ago, when I left RockYou to join PeerPong, a startup in the knowledge management/ social Q&A space, I faced the same questions. Looking at my rationale then and now, there were some basic patterns that helped me make the call. If you’re considering making a leap of faith yourself, here are a couple of basic thresholds I used when jumping into a new opportunity.
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Author: Ro Choy
