
Richard Portelance
Founder & CEO
CareerPath
New Milford, CT USA
“Entrepreneurship is synonymous with perseverance and grit.”
CareerPath
New Milford, CT USA
“Entrepreneurship is synonymous with perseverance and grit.”
Founder & CEO
I innovate digital products that help students and job seekers discover pathways to future opportunities.
Building digital products with the team, and partnerships with everyone and anyone out there. I enjoy making connections, engaging people, listening and learning. As a CEO, you need to absorb a ton of information, disseminate it, and make decisions on what applies to your company and why. Growing a company required both partnerships and sales, so I also spend time working on marketing and sales strategies, and meeting with prospects and clients.
Here's the first step for college students
To be an entrepreneur you have to learn to be a creative thinker and a business person, which are not always in alignment mentally. I would work for some start up companies, watch and learn, while also continuing to educate yourself on how to successfully run a business. The other super important aspect is to know how to market and sell something. It's great to have an idea, but if people don't buy it, it's not worth much!
"As an entrepreneur, you tend to hear 'no' an awful lot. Especially if you try to raise money for your organization. We often heard our idea was cool, but we didn't have enough traction—that we needed to prove it out further. It's a real gut check."