11/12/2022
We discovered a lot of things throughout this journey, but we think the most essential lesson we've learned is that it’s not easy to be an entrepreneur. Some people start their own business for the wrong reason or with a wrong mindset. We’ve always thought that if someone has a brilliant business idea and a hardworking character, they will lead their business to success. However, we are now aware that there are numerous factors to consider before establishing any business. In fact, there are many strategies that an entrepreneur could follow to achieve success, such as know your customers, work “on” the business, and many more. There are three main points that completely grabbed our young mindset, the first one is
- Don't be afraid of failure. Learn from it and keep going. Persistence is what creates excellence. As our first product got rejected, of course, we felt discouraged thinking how can we even continue this journey, but then it slowly hit our minds that it is a great experience since we've realized our mistake which we can learn from and make it better. That is why receiving the Best in product award was such an honor for all of us mostly because in order to achieve that, we experienced some failures/errors. The second one is
- Effective teamwork achieves much more than any individual can! Working alone and finishing targets is easy, what is challenging is to play along with the team and succeed. From planning to executing, it is truly tiring but then at the end it's definitely worth it. The third one is
-Trusting in ourselves that we can do it, that we are capable of creating something innovative and we can capture the hearts of many.
In conclusion, section Aphek is truly honored and proud to be a part of the event conducted and it's just a bonus to end up winning the Best in Product and Promo because the real prize is the knowledge and memories we acquired.
~ Signing off, Retro-kada.