Get Yourself The Job

Jennifer Hill asks David Ochi, Executive Director of the ANTrepreneur Center at UCI, “What are the 15 competencies of entrepreneurship?” David shares about UCI’s entrepreneur program and offers suggestions on how to approach creating one’s own business. merage.uci.edu/research-faculty/faculty-directory/David-Ochi.html David Ochi has over 25 years’ experience in early-stage companies having started his first enterprise – a tutoring company called A’s Unlimited - at the age of 13. Mr. Ochi ran this company for 11 years while attending high school, college and graduate school. Mr. Ochi utilized this experience to become an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Irvine in 1999. Mr. Ochi entered the world of technology in 2000 with the co-founding of Strevda LLC, a technology incubator. Mr. Ochi campaigned successfully for two rounds of investment funding for the nine projects. At its peak, Mr. Ochi managed and supervised nine incubation teams comprised of 95 persons. In 2004, Mr. Oc