Last week I went to an event hosted by Consid called QRendesvouz, which is an event for women in tech.

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We got to listen to Female Danish Entrepreneur, Lisbeth Chawes. She had a lot of inspiring stories and was telling us how she succeeded as a female entrepreneur and what the challenges and main goals are. She started off her talk by telling us about where she grew up and how her journey started. Her parents owned a hotel out in a quiet area in Denmark and her parents had trouble attracting customers when it was rainy because the hotel was known for its outdoor views and activities. Then she went on to tell us about how helping her parents solving this problem made her want to go out into the real world to solve other problems. She was saying that she had gotten an investor to invest in her musicstreaming start-up, which was going to launch just after Spotify had just launched. She understood that she would not stand a chance against Spotify, so what she decided to do was PIVOT.

Despite the setback, Lisbeth decided not to give up and to continue and the message she was trying to convey was that the way to survive in todays businessworld is being adaptable to change. You have new unimaginable competitors today that you never had to consider before. In order to become a successful entrepreneur you have to have this mindset and be able to adjust to new competitors and customers.

She also talked about the difficulties of being a women in the tech-entrepreneurial world and how you have to prove yourself more than most men. Which made me think about what our guest lecturer Leyla Avzel, who also talked about not being perceived as credible as most older men. Both of these women made me believe that someone like me, should believe more in myself even though I am not actually taught to do that and that my input can be just as valuable.

What I have learned is that hard work, creativity and the ability to learn fast are key features in an entrepreneur and all of those things are genderless and is not something you are born with.

Sometimes courses have different learning outcomes, and what this course has done for me is inspired me and motivated me to aim higher than I had before. You don’t have to fit into a box to be a leader/entrepreneur and that is very evident after attending these events and taking this course

 

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Thank you for taking the time to read my post

 

Adelina Tahiri

During this course we have talked about the importance of mentors and learning from others mistakes in order to avoid making the same mistakes and by doing so save for example time and money.  Getting a real mentor is one option but there are also a lot of resources on the web that could work as a good supplement.

A while ago Timmy Rosendal wrote about a podcast app from a Swedish startup called Acast (http://intopreneur.com/?p=4462).  This made me think of a podcast I have listen to and think is interesting. It is called Entrepreneur On Fire https://www.eofire.com/podcast/.

The podcast can help keeping your entrepreneurial spirit up and is a way to learn from other entrepreneur’s journeys, both their mistakes and what they recommend. If you do not have anything to listen to on your way to work or school, you could give this podcast a try 🙂

Since we are going to create a video about our venture idea it could be interesting to see how other people try to sell their ideas. Here is Entrepreneur On Fire’s video.

Do you have any podcasts you would like to recommend?

Johan Wikström