On November 16, I attended the Start-Up Tech Fair hosted by Hillel at Baruch College. At this event, there were several entrepreneurs who shared their success stories. In addition, they offered tips on how to start your own business and help it become successful. The owner of Celsius, an app that allows you to lend others money and make interest off it, had something that really struck out to me. He talked about failure and how he had failed multiple times. However, the strength to keep going is what allows someone to achieve something. He said that you will fail in anything you do, but if you are determined, the failures only hone you to become stronger. He also said that what we learn from our business classes in college won’t help us in our business career. He mentioned that the two classes that we will really help us in our everyday life down the road, are psychology and communications. I agree because these classes allow us to understand behaviors and communicate effectively. These entrepreneurs were recruiting students for internships that day. Luckily I had brought a couple copies of my resume and had given them to two or three of the companies I was interested in. In addition, this event allowed me to network with these successful individuals in the business and technology industry. Furthermore, I was able to meet more students who had similar goals as me, and had created many friendly connections. My father has owned a cell phone store in Queens for over twenty years. Recently, the past couple of years of retail business has been very slow because of the shifting market and buyers. I had listed the inventory online at consumer platforms such as eBAY and Amazaon. I was surprised to see how fast most of the inventory had sold. I remember shipping up to fifty phones a day to separate buyers. I think that currently and as we move on into the future, technology and business will continue to become more intertwined. Therefore by attending this fair, I was able to learn more skills and receive advice on how to continue to conduct business online.
