Mistake Bank Podcast #3 - Tim Berry, Founder of Palo Alto Software

Here's another in our series of interviews with successful entrepreneurs in which they talk about the mistakes that helped shape their careers. Our guest is Tim Berry, a co-founder of Borland Software and founder of Palo Alto Software the publisher of Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro, among other titles.

Tim has shared many other great mistake stories on his blog.

Tim Berry Mistake Bank Podcast

Content:

0:40 The making of an entrepreneur
5:10 An early mistake - with serendipitous results
10:10 "Adjusting the aim" when evaluating people
15:16 Believing the hype of the dot-com era
19:12 The importance of killing mediocre products

(audio content copyright 2010 John Caddell)

Previous podcasts can be found here.