A while has passed since my last post. Better be more active in the future. My post today is about my inspiration to entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurs have different sources of inspiration. Just like any other people in the world, we are inspired by the achievements of others, by our heroes, by books, by videos, by quotes, by pictures, by events…… You can be inspired by pretty much anything.
For the past year, for me, there have been a couple of sources of inspiration. Firstly seeing my fellow student-entrepreneurs creating great ideas (like this one or this one), developing the ideas into novel and innovative business models and opportunities and later actually making their ideas turn into reality as products, services, apps etc. What inspires me most in these stories is not that they would be told by heroic people with super-human abilities and skills, but they are told by regular girls and regular guys. They only thing they had to posses was the self-confidence (don’t push it too far or you’ll turn out cocky) and belief in their visions. Obviously it takes hours of effort to understand your market, your customers and iterate your ideas, but still, the people who make it happen are not too different from you and me.
Being part of something that is possibly changing the course of a nation for the years to come is something that drives me to work with many of my ideas. As you may know, Finland is growing to become a start-up hub in the Scandinavian and Baltic region and maybe even in the whole of Europe. Steve Blank titled this “the Finnish Spring”. It has also been noted widely in media e.g. by Wired magazine and The Next Web. The possibility of looking back and saying I was part of that is something worth pursuing.
To end this post I want to give you all something that I find very inspirational. It is a simple video a friend of mine showed me on his laptop perhaps a year ago. Take a minute to watch it and perhaps you too will get inspired.
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