The 1st Footprint

I started this blog as a diary to keep track of all the lessons (or mistakes) that I have learnt or made during my journey as a new start up.

The name "Young CEO" was actually just a passing remark made by my friends after I told them I would be leaving my job to pursue a path of entrepreneurship.

"So you want to be a Young CEO la?" That was one of the most common remarks I heard over the past few months when I shared a little more with them.

Naming this the Young CEO was not out of pride or as a dream that I would make it big one day. It was more of a mark to state that I need the discipline to run or to create a business my way. I would have no income, no clients to start with, no mentor. Ground zero. Starting from scratch. That does sound scary. On a side note, the Young CEO does have a good ring to it.

A brief background of myself, I am 25 years old. I graduated from a business school in US and furthered my studies with a part time Masters Degree (completed in 2013). I was working in a managerial position with the government for 3 odd years before I decided to start something on my own. It was a tough yet informed decision as I would have left a good and stable paying job to do something where I may have zero income for the next many months.

I have always been interested particularly in social entrepreneurship as I always felt that doing well and doing good can be interlinked. I will share more about my business models in the future.

It has been about 2 months since I started on this journey and it has been tough. I sleep much lesser, I have anxiety attacks not knowing what comes next, I have deals coming in which end up being nothing, I have bad deals coming in which people try to take advantage of circumstances.

On the positive note, it has been exciting, I have been meeting new people daily, I have been learning from people from different walks of life, I have learnt how to prioritize my time better, I have been effective and efficient in many ways and I have done things and made decisions that I would have never been able to do back in my job.

These were exactly the objectives I wanted to accomplish, to be a sponge and gain as much worldly experience as possible.

Learning the ropes 1 day at a time.

The Young CEO