My entrepreneurial journey of failures and small achievements
I truly believe that this an amazing time to be alive, so many exciting things happening, so much innovation making healthcare, communications, traveling and jobs (just to name a few) better, the tools to build your life are generally within your reach somehow.
But I also know that there are still huge issues, safety, corruption, terrorism, inequality, hunger, homeless people, diseases, people with no access to education or basic living conditions and this needs to be tackled, but by whom?
By you, by me, by all of us if we wish to.
I find myself quite self-transcendent because I enjoy approaching massive problems and concerns and I conceive the world where imaginaries boundaries keepings us distant will fade away, basically I like to stay positive in regard to whats ahead of us, the world is changing really fast and for better, we hope.
But hoping is not enough, reading and consuming content on whats wrong with the world and how to build businesses is a good first step but not a very useful one if we don’t take action.
That was me 3 years ago, I realised I had to perform, to do things, it took me an idea and the will to act.
I got to know me better and assured my certain that I was an entrepreneur by heart, what fulfils me is the everyday process for freedom, impact, legacy and the joy of building things, solving inefficiencies and making the world a little better.

Although I hope one day to be able to impact millions of people I knew that I had (still have) much to learn and to do, nevertheless that didn’t mean I couldn’t create something meaningful for someone.
In fact, I believe that you can practice and learn the skills to develop your own first start-up by diving into projects that don’t involve a lot of money or responsibility compared to a typical business venture and that was why I started my University’s Entrepreneurship Club.
The goal was simple, connect students with startups through internships, improve their skills, help startups and hopefully make it easier for students get their first job, offer mentorship and networking opportunities for those seeking it by bringing together some really seasoned and smart people in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, create a set of social welfare actions to improve homeless people’s life (healthcare partnerships and access to basic care to raise their self-esteem, like haircuts, frequent hygiene habits (…) Nothing new for the world or extraordinarily hard (at least I thought so, I was wrong…).
I’ve combined the idea with the desire, invited a few people to join me(just to realize later that I’d made a mistake when selecting a few of them and if that mistake had been made in a start-up seeking profit and stability the consequences would be fatal), failed, learned and in the end we were able to achieve our two main goals
-provide internships
-organize a conference (we got stuck on our back from picking up a speaker form the airport due to a giant fire in the highway) where interesting ideas were shared and questions answered, the social welfare goal is next in line.
At the end, I think I grew as a leader and I gained a bit more business savviness due to all meetings drawing monthly plans and negotiating value trades for partnerships.
Currently I’m working for Web Summit, “The best technology conference on the planet.” - Forbes.
I get to meet entrepreneurs every day, some of them have really interesting projects using cutting-edge tech while others just want to build basic services for their community, it’s up to me to do my best in every case to be sensitive enough to understand if they are a fit for our event and how can Web Summit be valuable for them.
It’s ultimately about understanding their needs and ambitions and connecting the right projects with the right people.
The awesome thing? I continuously learn by the experiences that I get to know every day across over 21 industries all over the world
In terms of issues, the Web Summit itself addresses some, we really promote gender equality in the job market and that’s why we have a special campaign for women in tech and we also partnered up with a corporation to help to bring the best “planet tech” start-ups around.
The next step in my early journey will be to make Simple Help grow in Dublin, we’re a platform that establishes network between charity funds and social institutions that require help, our main goal is to provide monetary or material support to those who are in need of it, this will be a great challenge since Dublin has a high number of homeless people and is one of the cities with most expensive basic cost of living in Europe, but the outcome will be just as great as the challenge we hope.
I’m currently co-founding my second venture (or third, depends on the point of view) but this process started over one year ago and it already has a discarded project and a complete shift in the recent one.
The most important thing is that me and my co-founders are better every day because we learn by doing, from our mistakes, we are now much more experienced than we were one year ago and we fundamentally know which things NOT TO DO and that’s sometimes more valuable than having an idea of what to do because ultimately time is your most valuable resource and if you don’t manage it well enough or if you use in nonsenses your morale will drop alongside with productivity and eventually the project will vanish.
Find something you really care about and make it better, choose the right people to help and learn everyday
