A business owner and a blog well worth following: Mr Jaime Estevez, CEO and founder of Agoranews.
Starting a business is certainly no bed of roses, and Jaime tells you about his adventures and misadventures in great detail so that you can take note of what he has learnt.
I too decided to give up a regular salary almost 4 years ago and, despite the ups and downs, I don’t regret it either.
Jaime has now passed the 8-year mark, and Agoranews is an essential company at any event that comes along if it wants good online coverage. They have set the standard, all thanks to Jaime’s good work.
There is a vast literature on the art of entrepreneurship, from “El libro negro del emprendedor” (“The Entrepreneur’s Black Book”) and Carlos Blanco’s “Los Errores de los emprendedores” (“The Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make”) to my own “Quiero ser emprendedor, manual práctico para Torpes” (“I Want to Be an Entrepreneur: A Practical Guide for Dummies”). In all of them you’ll find good advice, but without a drive to better yourself, a genuine vocation and passion for what you do, leadership, professionalism and much more, you won’t be able to make your dream come true.
So chin up: find what you’re most passionate about, surround yourself with the best and start your business.
Thank you, Jaime, for being a true inspiration.
55 días emprendiendo en cuarentena
Today it is exactly two years since I stopped being an employee to launch my business project and, therefore, two years since the start of the journey I’ve been recounting on this blog.
Seen in perspective, it’s almost overwhelming to compare the dreams, expectations and forecasts of that tender spring of 2008 with the succession of events, coincidences, hits and misses that have led to the reality of Agora News this month, April 2010.
I dare say that the business assumptions and market trends set out in the original business plan were more than 90% wrong, although the financial figures for revenue and profit from the first year onwards are being met with astonishing similarity.
The deviation comes, basically, from having assumed at the time that Agora News could initially develop by selling news in…
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