I want to share with you my expereince at the Entrepreneurial day in Nymble with the aim that will be an inspiration for someone.
This startups event takes place every year in Nymble, usually in March. It is an event for students who are thinking about starting their own business or develop a new business idea. I knew about this event casually by distribution of pamphlets. A posteriori, I can say I am glad of being there.
In particular, the core of the event took place in one day when in the morning I took place to two workshops and after that I have been in the fair of startups with the opportunity to know a lot of persons with a string entrepreneurial spirit.
The first workshop I attended was “Dirty Secrets of Negotiation and Presenting yourself” held by a Professional from SSES. She expressed her thoughts on how to present your business idea to the investors in order to convince them. The main suggestion was thinking out of the box and being as less obvious as possible. Also, she recommended to use in a proper way gestures and body language so as to attract the audience and obtain their concentration. I really appreciated this workshop as I believe it was highly useful to enhance my entrepreneurial personality.
The second workshop was focused on the business model formulation. Most notably, the lecturer explains us how to prepare a business model canvas in order to present our ideas in the 9 building blocks. She told us about the startup opportunity of the Venture Cap guaranteeing an award of 250000 SEK. To be honest, I have to say I appreciated more the first workshop as it was more interactive and because capability of the lecturer to capture the attention of the students.
After the second workshop I have been in the fair knowing about 26 new startups! In particular, I had a good conversation with the guys of Shipwallet, SKM and Weld.
The first one, Shipwallet, is a startup with the purpose of disrupte the shipping industry making the process lean and more transparent. I met the responsible of the market, Fredrik Schöön, to whom I expressed my willingness to have an internship in the startup.
SKM (Serial Key Manager) is a system ideated by Artem los. It allows to solve many problems for the developers that have to deal with the serial keys very frequently. The founder come up with this idea after being frustrated by other licensing systems that were difficult to use and quite expensive. he is the only who is working on the startups at the moment. I expressed my will to help him as a business developer and eventually in the future we will meet again to discuss in detail this possibilty.
However, the startup I had more contacts is Weld and thus I think it is opportune to open another post related only on this argument.