Digital entrepreneur
Start your own company around a service or an app that solves a real problem.
- To get started
- It varies
- Career change
- Possible
What you really do
You identify a need, test a simple solution, find your first customers and build a team. You wear several hats at once.
A typical day
- 8 amCalls with customers to understand their needs.
- 11 amMeeting with the app developer.
- 2 pmMeeting with a financial partner.
- 5 pmReviewing the week's numbers.
The skills
- Perseverance
- Sales
- Management
- Taking measured risks
- Initiative
- Independence
The path to get there
No degree required. Incubators, support programmes and management courses help a lot.
Career change: Your experience in a sector is often your best starting idea.
Job prospects
Your own company, incubators, funding programmes.
It's for you if…
- You always have project ideas.
- You are not afraid of making mistakes.
- You want to create jobs.