What college students need to know before starting a business. | Jan Bednar | TEDxBocaRaton

Jan shares his startup story and the three key things that have helped him succeed in his entrepreneurial journey.

Jan has moved to the U.S. when he was 17, with a dream of starting a business. Just one year after his college graduation, after winning multiple business plan competitions and going through an accelerator program, Jan now runs a successful business, and in his talk, he will share his startup story and the three key things that have helped him succeed in his entrepreneurial journey.

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[giammy]

Watching videos like these at 14 is a blessing to me

[rahultech]

Find a problem - start with your hobbies
Talk to the community/friends - to validate problem
Bootstrap until you have validated business - spend only on necessary stuff

[penguin]

Very refreshing to hear this. Too many people advise you to work at a corporation before starting a business. The problem is it doesn't equip you for working on a startup as you dont learn a variety of skills and the growth tends to be very slow.

If you want to start a business follow this advice and get stuck in. Or if you want more experience first, go and work for a startup.

[ellona]

I'm at college and I started selling Stickers at Etsy last year. It was the best decision ever!!! I barely have any social life at the moment but it's ok. Would rather do this than party.

[jumejume]

I'm seeing myself in that story
It's realy hard being in the USA as a strange student with different language and education to start a busness without no contact and experience. Thank you for sharing that with me😍

[alenazakopcanova]

Honzo skvele! This is a first time I found Czech person on TED! Congratulations! Skvela prednaska a skvely napad.

[LetsStartABusiness]

Great advice, if only I know that when I started...

[adityat.k]

Tq sir.. it's really inspiring and enlightening our thoughts...it helped me to some extent to start my own business... actually I am happy.. it's really growing good...yours ADITYA

[btsluv]

The best ✨ Thanks so much for your guidelines. I really appreciate it!

[sheraazaliinamdar]

realli a very inspiring and helpfull talk

[mupicap]

Many people lookin for this kind of this kind of video because they dont want to get failed. They trying to avoid it. But man. Lemme tell you, you have get thru this before you get succes.

[SaurabhThakur-xfcd]

Assuming that I've a business idea related to coding field which can solve a real life problem but I'm from mechanical side. But yes I'm good at business. What if I hire a team of coders to work with me? Or should I start learning coding language?
(Given, money issues are there for hiring teammates).


Looking forward for reply.

[Saroj]

Figure out peblems, brainstorming about the problem, then u have basic idea, is it works or not, validate with sample of work or MVP, gather feedbacks, finally move upward ⬆️(leave it or pick it)

[victorolvera]

🤔 $1.5 million revenue 2016, that's special but not that special. I am here because of the $140 million revenue 2020. He is making Florida look good so I hope he keeps it up. 👍

[NamasteTech-UnboxZone]

Well i am a web developer and launching my new business website but i am not really good at economics, so does it will be difficult for me?

[XxSLENTxX]

Looking for a proper team. Who is looking for a position? Send me a message and let me see what I can do for us.

[altoncarter]

Damn if iam going to be president i got to go to college after my college and i start my buisness i will be ready

[MuhammadHamza-lfvu]

Amazing 10 mins eue opener

certainly better than those hours speech by grey haired persons where they speak and speak and speak.

[awesomedjman]

6:50 that's not how that quote goes

[VINT]

So after a thousand times you just start stealing ideas?