![]() ![]() ![]() Through perseverance and hard work, he overcame these and other setbacks to become not only a successful entrepreneur, but also a guru to hundreds of startups, a teacher to budding entrepreneurs, and a highly sought-after investor in high-tech companies. He discovered that his partner in a venture capital fund was dishonest and Charlie had to fight to maintain his own reputation. ![]() He was betrayed by a member of his management team and was deposed from leadership of the company he founded. When the FBI attempted to shut down his company on a trumped-up charge, memories of World War II and the Gestapo filled him with terror of uncertainty. Over the next twenty years as CEO of technology companies and an additional twenty as an investor in, and mentor of, startup companies, he experienced the joys, successes, failures, and terrors of entrepreneurship. He became an academic at the cutting edge of new computer technology and then was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. Exhibiting strength, persistence, and determination, he earned an athletic scholarship to college and obtained three degrees in engineering. as a penniless thirteen-year-old who spoke two words of English. Charles Ota Heller is a Holocaust survivor who arrived in the U.S. Throw in some challenging circumstances, and trepidation turns to downright terror. Under the best conditions, being an entrepreneur can be filled with anxiety and trepidation. Published by: WriteLife imprint of BQB Publishing Title: Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant's Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror ![]()
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