Yesterday I was invited to participate in the panel discussion at Oberlo Vilnius headquarters for Shopify Merchants Meetup during Global Entrepreneurship Week where I talked about my experiences of running our Secrets of Organ Playing blog, podcast and store for the motivated group of young Lithuanian entrepreneurs.
It was exciting to look back at those 7 years since I wrote the first post on this blog.
I was asked the following questions (among many others):
*How did you start? What keeps you going?
*What are the good/bad/ugly sides of running your business?
*How did you get your first sale?
*What are the best 3 self care tips you have?
*How did your team grow?
After the event everybody was very excited and was happy with how each of the 3 panelists shared their highs and lows, struggles and victories without artificial facade that we might see in many events of this kind.
I know I was inspired to choose myself when I came to Entrepreneurship Week event at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln back in 2006. Fast forward 12 years and we come full circle. Now it's my turn to inspire somebody else to do the same in their own niche.
It was funny because normally people who started their businesses first got their business degrees in college and I had to learn everything from scratch by doing, by making mistakes, by educating myself.
After the meetup a lady from the Vilnius Rotary club came up to me and said they would be delighted to listen to my talk at their meeting so we'll see where this entire thing leads.
I also discussed the way I would start a blog today which was blockchain-based social media. Steemit of course.
Let me know what you think.
