Welcome back to season two of G+T Conversations! We are your hosts, Gwenda + Tatjana, and in this episode, we speak about startups and entrepreneurship.
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G+T Catch-up:
Some of the things we mentioned in this episode:
- "You can always connect the dots looking backwards": From doing content writing on the side to pay the bills while working on a medical tech business idea to keeping that business idea on the side and becoming the Founder + CEO of a marketing agency
- India is way more entrepreneur friendly than Germany.
- GINSEP is a startup platform that helps Indian startups to succeed in Germany and vice versa.
- Network(ing) is essential as a Startup Founder.
- No company can achieve anything without talented and passionate employees.
- When you are building a company, 99% of the time you are working on your business rather than in your craft.
- The best (but most boring) investment into your business is to hire a fantastic CA (Chartered Accountant) to help you with all financial and compliance related tasks.
- Legal and financial compliances are especially important for any company that wants to raise funds and get investors on board.
- Processes and systems help you to grow and scale your business.
- Hire talent better than you: When starting out you hire people who can do anything, when scaling up you hire people who bring in expertise.
- Favorite thing about entrepreneurship: Creating Impact - for clients to grow their business, for employees through company culture, and overall impact our society by being an active corporate citizen
- Least favorite thing about entrepreneurship: endless to-do lists, there is always more to do, never feeling fully accomplished
- Biggest f*ck up: Not letting go of our office space right away when covid hit in 2020. We were bleeding money (almost 3 lakhs) by delaying the economically necessary decision due to being emotionally attached to the office.
- Some great entrepreneurs networks you can join: Networking Now India: https://www.networking-now.com/ and Leap Club: https://leap.club/
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