The other day I found out that one of the students on my floor had a software company at the Science Park. His name is Jesús Escandon Bolaños and he is from Mexico.
He started this company around three years ago with two friends who came to JIBS to study.
What really impressed me is that he also owns four other companies in Mexico but they are ran by friends and siblings so that he can focus on the one at the Science Park.
When I asked him what were the main reasons why he became an entrepreneur, he told that the main reason was family. His parents also run a business so he basically grew up in an entrepreneurial environment. The support from his parents when he started his first business, an internet café, was essential, mostly because he was only nineteen and still studying at the university.
The second reason why he opted for an entrepreneurial life is because of an internship at Johnson & Johnson he did. He was given some managerial tasks to execute and even though he enjoyed it and learned a lot, he found out that working for you and not for someone else was what he really appreciated. So after this experience he created a software company which turned out to be quite successful.
I find his example quite interesting because even though he already started a few businesses already he is still thinking about opening new ones, actually he is about to open a shop selling Mexican jewelry. He always says that opening a business is not hard, it is all about finding a good opportunity. But he also admits that the support from his parents, especially at the beginning, was vital. It is also good to get his point of view about the support he is receiving from the Science Park, the way they help him get in contact with companies in Sweden, in other words what the guests lecturers explained us during the guest lecture.
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