How to face challenges for a start-up: 3 tips to not underestimate
Many are the challenges that a start-up must face. Very often these are the ones to scare and nip the entrepreneurial idea in the bud. In this article we find 3 aspects that cannot be missing to turn the idea into reality.
How many times have we heard saying: “Easier said than done, there’s many a slip twixt cup and lip”. The saying is self-explanatory: not always an idea, a thought directed towards the wish to create something, is enough to carry it out. What is necessary, is sacrifice, resilience and having a clear reason for doing a specific action. For a start-up, this is obviously not a novelty. Many start uppers, try and then give up. Here are some winning tips to have the methodology necessary to face over time the challenges for a start-up.
1. A winning team and, if possible, international
Not by chance, the first aspect to highlight is a strong, close-knit team, having clear ideas and perspectives on one’s own work as well of that of others’ is of vital importance. Not only in a start-up, but in any organisation in general. And if there is also a grain of internationality, even better. Being part of an international team means ability to understand other people’s limits, for better or for worse, it means open-mindedness towards new points of view, it means ability to listen and share. A lot of new discoveries awaits you!
If you want to find out how to have motivated team, read this article too.
2. Efficient communication
Every organisation has its core business, that can be a product or a service. Its communication online or offline of the product and/or service is for some aspects even mor essential than that: if it’s efficient, if it’s emotional and as much addressed to the reference target, than the match is done. Otherwise, all the effort made on the product and/or service fails because not communicated and becomes more effort than it’s worth.
3. Bravery
Not less important, there is bravery. Being brave a gift of few. Reporting a phrase uttered by Roberto Baggio after having made a mistake on the penalty against Brazil in 1994:
The penalties are messed up only by those who are brave enough to shoot them.
Exactly. A start-up is not afraid of making mistakes, because if that were not the case, then the saying would gain the upper hand. It takes courage, even only to begin.
4. From the idea to the product
In an article, Danilo Rea, founder of SweetHive, told how the idea for his start-up was born. He was in Wuxi, China, and being only able to look at the city from his hotel room due to a bad flu that had confined him to his bed, was struck by how the houses, companies, schools and hence the organisations, were in some way connected with one another. Here SweetHive is born, the collaborative platform that, with its digital hives, collect and contextualise all the information and documents in one single (flux) of communication.
Since then, he never ruled out the existence of challenges and difficulties along his journey but having had -and still having – that overall clarity, determination and bravery has made so that the collaborative platform SweetHive could take hold. All the features that have to developed and that, unfortunately, or luckily, are never innate.
And trying to always seize the challenges, today the platform SweetHive has developed so much to be able to offer services dedicated specifically to schools and education bodies, businesses, food producers, museums. And how did it manage to grow? Trusting in an international team, having courage, trying to find the best way to communicate, and lastly, having special consideration for the real demands of the market.
