STARTUP CHATTER

Poor Steve Ballmer? While Google “passion,” aka its unbridled, relentless, profit-motivated determination to control “the world’s information,” is inexorably cheered on by an ever growing Google fan club, Microsoft’s enthusiasm for winning, in the person of CEO Steve Ballmer, is routinely ridiculed

Ought unbridled corporate determination to succeed in new markets really be diagnosed by laymen as medically “unhealthy”?   NO!

Steve Ballmer’s undying support of the corporation he represents ought to be applauded as an example for executives the world over to emulate. I experienced first hand the Microsoft CEO’s on-stage vim and vigor during a National Retail Foundation keynote last year, and he is contagious!

As I launch my own startup for startups today–STARTUPALPHA.COM–I am inspired by Steve Ballmer’s leadership and I encourage all entrepreneurs to “attack” their new ventures with equal passion and determination, as new STARTUP CHATTER contributor Monica Doss also advises.

In my exclusive STARTUP CHATTER Q & A with Doss, the President & CEO of the North Carolina Research Triangle Council for Entrepreneurial Development, the veteran supporter of technology entrepreneurship underscores how successful entrepreneurs share a healthy embrace of what some may characterize as “unhealthy” winning conviction.”

I asked Doss which personal qualities are essential for an entrepreneurial win: “Stamina, mental and physical,” Doss told me, sharing a personal anecdote of not so “unhealthy“ entrepreneurship: