Startup Stories: Entrepreneurship Education & Startup Training by Europe’s Founders
Nerd Entrepreneurs
44 episodes
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Daniel Kunz from the Nerd Entrepreneurs team interviews the best and brightest startup founders and experts so you can be ahead of the curve with your own venture. Discover how you can quickly validate your startup idea, find problem - solution - fit and acquire your first customers so you can focus on building something that will drive revenue and profits and ultimately grow to become the business you’ve always dreamed of.
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Daniel Kunz from the Nerd Entrepreneurs team interviews the best and brightest startup founders and experts so you can be ahead of the curve with your own venture. Discover how you can quickly validate your startup idea, find problem - solution - fit and acquire your first customers so you can focus on building something that will drive revenue and profits and ultimately grow to become the business you’ve always dreamed of.
MENTAL HEALTH: How aiming for failure can help you reach your goals w/ Differ founder Geir Sand Nilsen
Startup Stories: Entrepreneurship Education & Startup Training by Europe’s Founders
35 minutes
6 years ago
MENTAL HEALTH: How aiming for failure can help you reach your goals w/ Differ founder Geir Sand Nilsen
This episode brings us together with Geir Sand Nilsen from Differ, a startup that gives students a safe place to ask stupid questions, conversations to join, and peer mentors to talk to. Students are more stressed than ever. Loneliness, depression, and anxiety are key factors for lack of student engagement and university dropouts. 87% find it difficult to cope with their studies, 71% have or have had some kind of mental illness, 29% say they are lonely.
In our conversation we cover how Geir and his startup got into this topic, how aiming for failure can help you reach your goals, and how entrepreneurs can deal with mental challenges to overcome challenges. I’m super excited to share this episode with you today, enjoy!
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We covered the following topics:
PROBLEM - SOLUTION - FIT
How they ended up identifying the real problem of their target audience
What challenges they faced by working for someone who isn’t their customer
MISTAKES
Why trying to solve too many problems leads to nowhere
STRUCTURES
How to set up a good work structure and routine for your startup team and yourself
MENTAL HEALTH
The biggest challenges entrepreneurs face when it comes to mental health
How you can deal with mental health issues
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Startup Stories: Entrepreneurship Education & Startup Training by Europe’s Founders
Daniel Kunz from the Nerd Entrepreneurs team interviews the best and brightest startup founders and experts so you can be ahead of the curve with your own venture. Discover how you can quickly validate your startup idea, find problem - solution - fit and acquire your first customers so you can focus on building something that will drive revenue and profits and ultimately grow to become the business you’ve always dreamed of.
