Yesterday, I went to StartupDay2016, during the events, I got the chance to hear the inspiring stories from entrepreneurs from different areas. Also there was a Expo of growing startups where you can mingle with people and inspired each other.
I want to share you with what I learned from speeches.
From billion-dollar unicorn to philanthropy – Niklas Adalberth, Klarna
Niklas is a very modest person and contribute all his success to luck, right content, right timing following the growth. Come on, we all know it is not true. Under the pressure from the host, he admitted that it was hard work combined with luck and suggest not going every network events and should work more in the office. Of course, StarupDay not included.
At first, the co-founders fight a lot meanwhile trust has been built and Niklas told us honestly that he was scared to death to fail, the so called self-confidence is based on the achievements. They made a tough but good choice to give away almost half of the company to the engineers and founders to build bigger team. Now he is super positive towards the entrepreneurship ecosystems, entrepreneurs are no more unicorn but should be cockroach.
What Africa has taught us about starting up in emerging markets and what lessons can be learnd -York Zucchi, Chief Coffee Drinker
In Africa, there are full of resources, the problem is how to scale them find the people represent them. The difficult part is that countries of Africa are so different, for example, there are thousands kinds of languages in Africa and also the company culture are distinct to each other. The lesson he learned is just to grasp the chance, ideas are not that important, implement it and maybe you will be lucky to get invested, find a mentor to get suggestions.
How a non-superhuman taught herself hardware hacking by building fun but spectacularly useless things- Simone Giertz, Queen of Shitty Robots
The most funny and different speakers today who are fancy building useless things. However, she inspired me that building useless things are not shameful, if something come out of your mind, just do it. The breakfast machine, chopping machine, wake-up machine, etc, how can they be useless? She built those robots to solve the problems in her life even she is not engineer. Your ideas are smarter than you, and the best way to learn is to build stuffs and don’t care whether they are useless.
During the break time, I found a lot of interesting startups and want to share them with you.
Prototype Driven Design 
sketchmyapp is a great tool for creative people who have great ideas and fucus on design to build prototype easily.
A tool to create interactive websites and apps without coding.
Weld will help you build blog, app and protofolio like editing a powerpoint, which means you don’t need to learn anything about html5, css and anything related to web development.
This is a product that is not electrical related but I like it. The girl who invented such a cute but more comfortable sleeping mask has been in China for a while and add some Chinese element to her invention, the eye-mask getting rid of strap instead of reusable skin-adhensive patches.