Beyond The Playbook: Redefining The Journey of a Startup Entrepreneur
Echelon Philippines 2024 brought together startup leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to support the region’s rapidly growing tech market and drive economic progress.
The tech conference’s keynote speech titled ‘Beyond The Playbook: Redefining The Journey of a Startup Entrepreneur’ was delivered by Minette Navarrete, President and Co-Founder of Kickstart Ventures.
She discussed the unpredictable nature of the startup journey, emphasising that each founder’s path is unique, with no standard roadmap to success. Navarrete shared how successful founders navigate unexpected challenges by relying on adaptability, resilience, and unconventional wisdom.
She outlined four key lessons from successful startups:
- Mission over valuation, exemplified by Bagosphere, which trained over 10,000 participants and achieved 80 per cent job placement.
- Creating or capturing markets, as Wattpad did by cultivating a new reading audience in the Philippines.
- Execution excellence, demonstrated by Pickup Coffee’s expansion from 12 to over 250 locations.
- Forming unexpected partnerships, such as Sarisuki’s collaboration with Asin on solar-powered agricultural projects.
Navarrete emphasised that while traditional frameworks are important, founders must go beyond them by focusing on mission, execution, and people to achieve long-term success.
Watch the session video above to learn more about these insights and the strategies shaping the future of entrepreneurship.
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