Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence

Peter Vogel

24.02.2010

What will your magical journey be?

65% of Forbes Billionaires started with …

Oprah Winfrey - Oprah

Amancio Ortega - Zara

Joanne Rowling – Harry Potter

Li Ka Shing– Wealthiest man HK

Inqvar Kamprad - IKEA

I can do ANYTHING

Entrepreneurship is about …

Dreaming

Entrepreneurship is about …

passion

vision

Inspiration

people

ambitiondoing

time

luck

leadership

learning

listening

meaning

commitmentchange

failure

you

optimism

uncertainty

communication

decisions

telescopeidea

Entrepreneurship is like mountaineering …

Running your own business

Opportunities

Resp

onsib

ilities

Risks

Business opportunitiesIdentification

• Abundance of opportunities

• Exchanging and sharing ideas

• Opportunity vs. problem

Exploitation

• Choosing the right opportunity

Opportunities when running your own firm“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities

brilliantly disguised as impossible situations” (Charles Swindoll)

• Motivation

• Learning

• Growth

• Do what you love

• Freedom

• Create jobs

• Network

• Change the world

• Shape your future

Responsibilities when running your own firm

The price of greatness is responsibility (Winston Churchill)

• Employees

• Self-assessment

• Leadership

• Liabilities

• Ethics

• Customers

• Deliver or die

• Financiers

• 150 %

• Social

STIPENDIAFirst Jobzippers Scholarship – 5’000 CHF

• First initiative for scholarship service

• Yearly scholarships

STIPENDIA – CIYDAFungai Alexander Mapondera (26)Contemporary Indigenous Youth

Development Africa(CIYDA)

www.ciyda.org

Project• Young, innovative and ambitious Non-profit organization• Information hub, advocacy and project initiation for youth

development in Zimbabwe

• CIYDA’s four pillars of youth development: Business startup, social & cultural integration, mentorship, Volunteering

• Derives strength in reaching out to network of Zimbabwean youths around the world, various communication platforms and above all else, self sustaining business initiatives that also benefit local youths

STIPENDIA – “With the Eyes of a Child” Elena Rybak (28)

• Education and Creativity

Project

• Swiss painting competition for children from schools and childcare

centers

• Goal: Paint your city the way you see it or would like to see it

• Jury-selected paintings will be exhibited

• The 12 best drawings will be printed to a calendar and sold

• Revenues go directly into schools and for youth development

Risks

The easiest time to take a risk is when you have little to lose.

Risks

Personal

• Social disintegration

• Yo-yo effect

• Stress on family life

• Not letting go

• Opportunity costs

Company

• Choosing wrong

• Fit to market

• Scalability

• Telescoping

• IP

• Lack of profit / cash

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover (Mark Twain)

Thank you for your attention

Jobzippers

Open Positions

• Country Manager UK

• Head of Marketing (full-

time)

• Sales (full-time)

• University ambassador