UNAIR NEWS –Student Association of Information Systems (SI) Diploma program 51动漫 (UNAIR) held a Start Up Digital 3.0 entrepreneurship webinar entitled ”How to Start a Career as Start Up Technopreneur”on Sunday, October 18, 2020.In the webinar, Niki Tsuraya Yaumi as COO and CO-Founder of Goers was attending as the main speaker.
Niki explained thatan entrepreneur isnot just a business owner, but also someone who solves a problem.To become anentrepreneur, the first thing you can do is look for problems.As you have a problem, focus on solving the problem and trying to identify a solution that can solve the problem.
“So, anentrepreneuris someone who is constantly looking for better ways to do something, is willing to take risks, and tries to make it happen,” she explained.
For exampleonlinetransport entrepreneurs, they focus on helping people who need to move from one place to another or move an item from one place to another.This effort is trying to make it easier forconsumersanddriversbecause whereverthe drivers, they can get orders.
Before starting a business, it is important to determine the reasons why you should start the business.According to Niki, there are several reasons why someone wants to become atech entrepreneur.The first reason is theimagethattech entrepreneursare glamorous.
“What the media sees, being atech entrepreneuris fun, party a lot, live glamorously.However, in reality,start-upfoundershave to spend hours in front of their laptops to build theirstart-up, said Niki.
The second reason is to be the boss, the top of the pyramid in an organization. “In reality, when you become the boss, everyone around you is your boss,” she explained.
Then, flexibility is the third reason people want to becometech entrepreneursbecause working time is determined by themselves.In fact, working time is flexible, but it also allows individuals to work 24 hours a day.
The fourth reason, usually people think that being an entrepreneur will make a lot of money.However, as thefounder ofa newly releasedstart-up, achieving good financial returns will take a long time.
According to Niki, the best reason to start astart-upis when individuals can’t do anything but do it.As an individual feels compelled to start developing astart-upidea, there ispassionfor thestart-upidea.
“Then, make sure you haveaptitude(talent, ed), you have the ability and understanding that the world needs you to do the idea, because otherwise the world will not change,” explained Niki.
Niki explained, even if you don’t start a business, you can still be an entrepreneur, someone in an organization who has anentrepreneurialmentality, focuses on solving problems and building solutions with efforts, creativity, and innovation.
Meanwhile, the head of the event, Regita Rahma Izazi, said that the webinar was a work program of science division of Student Association of Information Systems (SI) Diploma program.It was held to provide insight and knowledge on how to build a businesses, especiallystart-ups.
“This activity aims to provide insight, knowledge, on how to build a business, especiallya start-up,” she said.(*)
Author: Galuh Mega Kurnia
Editor : Binti Q. Masruroh
