If you have consulting experience, for example, you could establish an accounting consultancy firm.
Elaine Berke Westport, Mass., March 7, 2009 The writer heads a leadership and customer experience consulting company.
It has worked with Twitter, eLance, and Etsy in the last few year, and Hurst brings to the table his experience consulting with LinkedIn, where he helped to launch the website's "board" and "pro-bono" functions.
"Google is simpler, more focused on real and basic customer needs, with some exceptions for their experiments, and less focused on some of the fads driving Silicon Valley today," said Phil Terry, chief executive of Creative Good, a user experience consulting firm.
Lane Becker, who helped start Adaptive Path, a user-experience consulting firm, said that he was impressed by how efficiently Facebook was able to reel in so many prominent designers, including Mike Matas, who worked on much of the software for the original iPhone and iPad, and Rasmus Andersson, who led design at Spotify, the streaming-music service.
He also has extensive experience consulting for business, government and international organisations, and has been a contributor to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' course for senior executives on business and the environment, and the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, at the University of Cambridge.
Biomedical engineer Jared Seehafer came up with the idea through his own experience consulting with health companies like Genentech.
The second piece is the Sports, Entertainment and Fan Experience consulting practice, designed to help sports teams enhance and understand how fans are interacting with them.
Leadership and the Sexes, published by Jossey-Bass, combines Gurian's use of brain science in gender studies and Annis' years of experience consulting top international companies on gender concerns.
She has over a decade of experience consulting to both nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
