Recently, Sinh viên Việt Nam newspaper conducted an interview about student entrepreneurship. Since we regularly work with business owners, we are delighted to have this opportunity to share with and answer questions from students and young people. Here are some excerpts for your reference.
❓Many entrepreneurship competitions now give students opportunities to grow. How do you assess today's startup platforms and students' use of their opportunities?
Basically, these competitions are necessary. They offer three benefits to student entrepreneurs.
First is the chance to test your ideas against reality, hear critiques and suggestions, and “kill” an idea a few times before it is refined enough to become feasible and successful. This is the most important value. Sometimes we do not succeed in the “competition” but succeed in “life.”
Second are the relationships built through competitions, including with mentors, judges, and successful entrepreneurs. This only happens if you know how to approach people tactfully and sincerely while still demonstrating great ambition and the courage to think and act boldly.
Third is action, action, action. You will become familiar with teamwork, planning, selling, persuasion, critical thinking, leadership, and guiding others. If you participate wholeheartedly, this will be a beautiful memory from your student years.
❓Stories of students lured into fraudulent multilevel marketing networks and investment funds have recently prompted rescue efforts by the press and authorities. How should students properly understand this issue?
Replace “Getting rich is not difficult” with “Building wealth with integrity and sustainability” in your mindset. This is about awareness and thinking. We may have a generation wanting only to “earn money even while sleeping.” There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but greed easily leads people into dangerous scams. Used for wrongful purposes, such messages can lure many “prey” into losing money and suffering harm.
That is why I believe “Early Education” is very important. Education determines how a person perceives, thinks, and acts. Students need to be equipped earlier with the “Four Right Elements”: Right Thinking + Right Attitude + Right Wisdom + Right Qualities/Values. With these as their provisions, students will have sufficient inner strength and consciousness to distinguish “Buddha” from “Demon,” “Righteous” from “Wrong,” “Real” from “Fake,” “Right” from “Wrong,” and “Dream” from “Illusion.”
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