struggles of the twenty-something-CEO-Founder-TechStartUp-Entrepreneur-Fitness-Junkie-inbusinesswithherBoyfriend-fulltimejob-working-female.
I'm BACK-
However,
This blog is taking a completely new direction.
This is still personal, coming from a tech start-up CEO but my life and roles have changed DRAMATICALLY in the past half-year.
I unfortunately don't care about competing in physique shows anymore, I am more or less the perfect demographic of someone who would use RenewUFit! Why? I am over-busy, over-worked, under-compensated and unable to enjoy my life to the fullest because of stress.
I am going to document struggles of the twenty-something-CEO-Founder-TechStartUp-Entrepreneur-Fitness-Junkie-inbusinesswithherBoyfriend-fulltimejob-working-female.
What is the norm?
A serial entrepreneur is the norm in the start-up realm. The MALE serial entrepreneur, to be exact. Those that have IPO'd or sold successful start-ups in a few years and moving on to their next venture are what I'm up against. I actually read a great article stating that around 3% of tech start-up entrepreneurs are females, so hello to the other 2 women in my near 100 circle.
I plan on incorporating these posts in with my linkedin posts, with a little more personal background on the blog. First and foremost, Time and Money....
Time is Money, Time is Money Wasted?
I had a meeting with my team in tow with a potential vendor over the weekend. One of mine abruptly left saying that the meeting shouldn't progress because the potential couldn't do anything for us, solely because his line of work wasn't directly in line with our needs. The latter had helped myself out pro-bono over the past months because he wanted to help, and met with me because I wanted to learn more about him and what he is best at doing in regards to his realm. I had to patch things up because the other person left, and apologized for the behavior. I learned more about what his expertise is, and how he could help us with his rolodex and other ideas.
I spoke with our teammate after-hours and he told me that his time is money and it was a waste of his time so he just left; this, however, goes against integrity on my end. Any meeting is a good meeting, if people like you they will want to go out of their way to help you. I have gotten to this point by networking and not having a set agenda, but rather writing a follow-up agenda post-meeting. I love meeting and learning about interested parties, and I might be passing up the next thing I need just because I was being greedy and close-minded.
I feel like what was done pulls away from integrity that I plan to keep instilled from now until we are known to the general public. I want people to love the founders, have a positive inclination of Kim because I'm hard working, nice and approachable, not have a negative association because of the 'd-bag that blew this guy i knew off'.
I would love other opinions on this...I know in my experience, networking and being open minded has gotten me far. But should my teammate's (who mind you, has more gray hair and experience in the corporate realm-however his realm is definitely not tech start ups or fitness) 'time is money' approach be taken more seriously and could it potentially get me farther?