How International Work Experience Help Entrepreneurs Succeed

Agenda• Working Internationally

• How international experience & a global perspective could increase a startup’s success

• Advanced communication• Blank market discovery• Flexibility & adaptability• Turning multilingual

• Conclusion

Working Internationally

• Many successful companies have a presence across multiple cities in one country & also across multiple continents

• Starting a business, is entering a competition against all recognized powers in your trade

• Global determinations require a global outlook• Working internationally before setting up on your own business can

be very beneficial

Lets see how international experience & a global perspective could increase your startup’s success

Advanced communication

• Communication is an important factor in any business • Strong leaders are skillful communicators • Timing of communication is the most important aspect of communication• One can never delay any decision because the occasion to get everybody

on the same page may never occur again• Procrastination leaves ambitions aside which can lead to hopelessness • Staying in steady communication & engagement with international

partners, imposes less tension & increase consistency• One can pick up different communication cues from different cultures

Blank market discovery• A pair of fresh eyes have a unique perspective compared to those who

have been struggling to figure a solution before• Working abroad can gain you an advantage of perspective• Blank market discovery, allows one to come up with a new idea that fits

with the culture• You may get an opportunity to try things that may not work in your

particular culture but may work in another• A multicultural approach to business can also result in a combinational

development

Flexibility & adaptability

• Flexibility & adaptability are required to survive any businesses today

• The only way one can most likely succeed in an unfamiliar environment is to adapt

• If you do not dodge & are flexible & adaptable to your surroundings you can eventually feel confidence & belonging

• When you return home, your experience & stretched out perspective will be an added perk to your business

• You will develop more confidence & security at home

Turning multilingual• Thirty-one percent of executives are bilingual• Working abroad helps you engage not only culture but also

language• Many opportunities & programs are available to help learn

languages• Learning multiple languages will not only help while abroad, but

one will also be able to connect with a huge number of people back home

• You could also have a more diverse group of hires for your startup

Conclusion• Taking a job abroad is an investment in yourself • Opening your own company will be less of a gamble• There could be some accidents, culture shock & glum along the

way• When you decide to return home & start your own business, you

will be armed with lessons that cannot be taught only experienced & learned

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