How to Start a Startup
My name is Agnes and I started this blog as
a part of an assignment in one of my master's classes in Reykjavik University. Since
I was a little girl I always wanted to be a powerful business woman and own my
own company. I got really excited when I saw that one of the courses that I could
take was named How to Start a Startup, I thought this is my chance to think outside
of the box and challenge myself. It did not hurt that Bala Murugan Kamallakharan
was the lecturer. For you that do not know him he is an entrepreneur with great
experience when it comes to startups and mentoring, you should google him.
A little bit about myself. I decided to go
and take my bachelor degree following the global financial crisis in 2008, as I
knew I needed to get an education to be competitive in the market. I chose a
degree in business at Reykjavik University, emphasizing on finance. You may
think, why business, didn’t Iceland have enough of unemployed business people?
Yes that is true but I had the feeling that I could learn from the mistakes
others had made. I always wanted to be a business woman and I was not going to
make one crash crush my dream. Throughout my studies I constantly reminded myself
that I wanted to get as much as I could out of each program. To increase my chances
of landing a job when I graduated I decided to do an internship with KPMG
advisory in my second last semester. When the internship was over KPMG offered
me a job. In my last semester I wrote my final theses along with working full
time at KPMG advisory and graduated in the spring of 2012.
In the autumn of 2014 I decided to go and
finish my master’s degree in corporate finance. I thought it would be good to
get some work experience before continuing my studies. Now I highly recommended
it as my understanding of the course materials is much deeper now than before
and I get more out of the courses I take. I love to keep busy and I decided to
go for a full-time study along with a full-time job at KPMG advisory. The upside
is that I will graduate at end of year 2015, so the extremely high work
load is only for a short period of time.
What’s next? That is for me to know and for
you to find out. I intend to posts weekly, sharing with you my journey to excellence.
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