My last post was more than 1 month ago but just keep reading, you’ll find out why I’ve been so busy.
When we started all this – the MACE, Designing a Business module, the business with flI. – we would’ve never imagined what we ended up with. And I am not talking about the academic prizes.
Yes, we won the Bright Ideas competition at the Kingston University in February and it has been a very exciting moment for all of us.
Then, last Thursday we pitched to compete as representative of the Kingston University at the National Young Enterprise Competition 2015 in Manchester.
Our preparation was unconventional as usual: we met in the morning to prepare – the pitching session was at 6pm – with nothing but a bunch of tired (sleeping is a luxury these days) and crazy minds to work with. Obviously, we could’ve kept the presentation as it was for Bright Ideas just adding details of the work we’ve done in the meanwhile… but this is not us. We want to have fun and, after brainstorming, we came up with a pilot / stewardess performance to present our product. We already had ‘Safety Instructions’ to complete the scene.
Long story short: we won, we are going to Manchester on the 13th May. Well, a product called ‘flybee’ won, so at the beginning we were not sure whether it was us or not – suspense! – , but the correction came promptly. And then everyone in our course was hugging us and screaming, a surreal and joyful moment.
DEtour will be lead through an intense preparation during the next month. We will have to polish our presentation and our figures and honestly I can’t wait. The curiosity is eating me alive and I will take full advantage of all this for my personal growth, but there is also an half spoon of fear and half spoon of determination to be added to the mix.
We will always be true to ourselves, no matter what. This is not about winning a prize, this is not about flI. or about a company. This is about Us. And about unicorns, of course…
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