How A Goal-Oriented Bootstrapper Who Mortgaged His House Ended Up Fathering Flash – with Charlie Jackson

Charlie Jackson, Silicon Beach Software, Bootstrapping, Mobile Apps, Web 1.0

How did a bootstrapper who mortgaged his house to launch a software company end up becoming the father of Flash, the platform that changed online video?

Charlie Jackson is the owner, CEO of Silicon Beach Software, which develops storybooks on mobile devices for kids. In 1993 he co-founded FutureWave Software and unleashed on the world a product that we know today as Adobe Flash Player, the cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers web experiences like video and games.

Charlie Jackson

Silicon Beach Software

Charlie Jackson is the Owner/CEO of Silicon Beach Software which is a developer and publisher of software for mobile devices.

Andrew: Coming up, well, as you’ll hear in my voice, I had a lot of fun recording this interview for you. You don’t care about my fun. You want to know what’s in it for you. So let me call out a few key ideas that I wrote down in my notes from this interview that I think will help change your life. The first is goal-setting. I know you’ve heard so many self- improvement authors talk about the power of goal-setting. Wait until you hear what it did for today’s guest and how dramatically it changed his life. I think it’ll have a big impact on yours.

Also, the point on advisory boards I think is worth paying attention to. What do you do when you’re in a brand new industry doing things you’ve never done before and you don’t have a mentor, you don’t have advisors to help you? That happened to today’s guest and I asked him how he dealt with it. His response is one that could influence your life, and you might have...

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