By Clark Kendall, an EO DC member and president of Kendall Capital

Sometimes the door to entrepreneurship opens because the corporate career door is closing. That’s the situation I found myself in almost a decade ago, when I was a global private banker with Royal Bank of Canada. After moving up the corporate career ladder in the banking and investment brokerage business, I was stuck.

Thankfully, to paraphrase the lyrics of bluesman Keb Mo, I found out that the door to entrepreneurship was open.