Joe Zente Talks about the Tab Tribe
Where are you from originally?
South
Orange, New Jersey.
What university did you go to?
New
Jersey Institute of Technology, BS Chemical Engineering
What brought you to Austin?
I was fortunate to travel extensively
throughout my early 20s. I felt that
Austin would be the best place I could imagine to start a family and to launch
businesses.
You lead the The Alternative Board (TAB) in Austin. What is your group’s mission?
Freedom Through Results, Results Through
Responsibility…™
What need does it fulfill?
The need of private business owners to be
Free. Free to pursue their Personal
Vision and Business Vision—their own uniquely
individual version of success.
What exactly does it bring to startups?
Strategic
Business Planning, Sales & Marketing Support, Best Practices, Coaching,
Peer Advisory Boards, CEO Toolkit, Leadership Development, HR, Finance,
Business Education, Entrepreneur Networking, Extensive CEO Resource Network.
What type of startup would benefit from your group?
Any start-up
entrepreneur who is unconditionally committed to improving their business and
improving their life and to take action in the areas that need
improvement. Must also be willing to
give and receive openly and honestly with a spirit of abundance.
What was the most challenging aspect of starting up the
initiative?
Attracting
the Best and Brightest business experts in Texas to join our team to and become
TAB Certified Facilitator Coaches.
What advice do you have for entrepreneurs?
Too many
to list here, but for starters…:
·
Don’t
try to re-invent the wheel.
·
Focused
energy + unconditional commitment is overpowering.
·
You
REALLY Don’t Know what you Don’t Know. No
matter how cool or unique you think your product or service is, ALL companies
are Sales and Marketing companies.
What Austin-based resource have you found to be the most
helpful and why?
The TAB-Austin
and TABBoards International business owner community.
The
knowledge, wisdom, resources, abundance mentality, and spirit of sharing and
spirit of sharing among the 10,000+ members of the TAB family never cease to
humble and amaze me.
