6 months in a Poland.....a well needed reflection! [Part 1]
Well it has been 6 months in Poland and yes time flew by so quickly especially when you have a big event to prepare for! Life in Poland has been highlighted with a number of ups and downs and I would daresay that this time here has been quite enlightening. I have been travelling quite a number of times here and I had the opportunity to go to the northern-most part of Poland and went multiple times to both Warsaw and Krakow. They are for sure amongst my favorite cities in Poland. The Startup scene in these cities is quite lively and a substantial amount of people meet on a weekly if not twice-weekly basis and discuss about startup ideas. No wonder people want to set up their technology startup in Poland. There is a feeling which for now might be the closest that I could ever get to the American Startup Scene. So many people ask me: What is a Startup? and somehow quite a number of times
A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model
Then again the next natural question is: What is a business model? And the way I could explain that is by saying that it is rudimentary/basic essentials of a business plan which will give you the necessary vision and direction to lead your business in the right direction. I can see we have veered of course here.....back again to my experience in Poland. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend three conferences(Mobile Developer Conference Hack-a-thon? Is this a place where illegal activity takes place? No. Are people trying to hack into government and banking services? No I had the opportunity to experience this twice to three times in this past 6 months and I am very lucky to say that they have been experiences which helped me grow as a person and which have made me understand quite a lot of aspects of the technology business and the wonderful mobile development world A quick thought about the conferences: Mobile Central Europe was a truly wonderful experience and I had the opportunity to meet really great people there from all over the world. The best part of this is that all the workshops and lectures were held in English which made it much more comfortable for me to fit in this atmosphere and I honestly felt at home there. I was also lucky enough to meet the right group people to win a Hackathon and thanks to that I got a free ticket to Makerland on which I will talk about later. In Poland Thanks to this The 2nd conference which I had the opportunity to attend was known as the Mobile Trends Conference The last conference that I was to was Makerland. It was truly a wonderland of hardware technology namely 3D printers I have run out of thoughts.....I will post some more next week :)
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