Why Designers Need to Learn About Business Design MBA

My guests today is Om Suthar who is the Director of Product Design at DISQO.

In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Why I'm interviewing Om Suthar (Director of Product Design at DISQO)
- Why is it important to control your burn rate as a startup founder?
- What is Founder Market fit?
- Startup Founder shares lessons learned from failing to raise funding from venture capitalists
- Should you tell your employer about the startup you are doing on the side?
- How to manage your startup and day job simultaneously?
- How to Build Your Second Brain?
- Startup horror stories from a first time founder
- How to trust people and manage expectations?
- How to evaluate different career opportunities?
- Why do companies want to hire design entrepreneurs?
- How does being an entrepreneur help a designer collaborate better with product partners?
- Why should designers learn about how a business operates?
- How can designers/researchers effectively present research findings to C-level executives?
- What are the benefits for a designer to learn about the business side of things?
- Why you should not quit your job to pursue an idea/startup?
- How to set a career goal correctly?

Interview Video: https://youtu.be/asEjJAov3nU

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www.designmba.show