The space of the Ovo bowling alley Enjoy Punta del Este it received hundreds of enthusiastic young entrepreneurs willing to share experiences and generate contact networks. The Association of Young Entrepreneurs (AJE) held a new edition of the event “Uruguay to the world” and plans other various activities for the rest of the year throughout the country.
At the opening table, in addition to the authorities of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs, the director of institutional relations of Enjoy, Javier Azcurra, He narrated his story as founder of the association and the development that it has had since its birth in 2006 to date.
The meeting began with a table on “Innovation and inclusion” with various experiences that bet on the social sustainability. A local experience driven by residents of the department of maldonado is cafeteria, specialty coffee that employs young people with disabilities. Your manager Matias Haber He said that the project was born during the pandemic and today covers the entire southern part of the country.
also participated Ana Cardozoin charge of Recomplies companydedicated to recycling birthday items, which today gives opportunities to 20 women heads of household and its production has five interested countries.
Pablo Banchero is the referent of Fusiona production company specializing in TV programs for children with autism, which today carries out the “Bichero” project broadcast by the international television network National Geographic.
The second table was “Destination of Opportunities” dedicated to showing how Uruguay and especially Punta del Este can be a place chosen to undertake by foreigners who arrive in its territory. That is the case of Christophe Du Mee of the Mauritius Islands that in charge of Deltacamp Investments invests in Uruguayan companies, Lucia Dosetti who, representing Brazilian businessmen, runs the premium wine boutique vineyard eden and the Cordovan Pablo Tabares promotes technological solutions for health services.
The last of the tables was “Global business talent” where they participated Ximena German of Prometheus Openbanking which functions as a platform for accessing banks throughout the region, Caroline Kind of bright Star event producer, among others, the well-known “Punta Tech Meetup” and Matias Craviotto with an original name proposal ordereat that digitizes the gastronomic options in school canteens.
AJE, a support network for entrepreneurs
scope.com spoke with Bruno Foggiato president of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs who defined the organization as “a very diverse network of entrepreneurs where all areas are accepted, there is no exclusion or preference for any”. “Our idea is precisely to be that support network for businessmen, entrepreneurs in their final stages of development of their company or their startup”.
Regarding the objective, he said that it is “to accompany many times the moments of solitude that businessmen have when we need that containment network, we need support at times of descent and leveling at times of ascent so that doing business can be something sustainable and manage to evolve our startups and our business life”.
– Is it a good time to start a business in Uruguay today?
– It’s always a good time to start. The reality is that one should look for their market niche, look for their differentiation factor and there bet on working well and generating value links, above all. Value links are actually build sustainable relationships through the generation of value for the parties involved in the business. The reality is that doing business is a round trip. In other words, if all the parties are not satisfied and do not find a reason to be in that relationship, they are ties that are not lasting. That is the counter-definition, let’s say. The value link that promotes is that, it is sustainability in business.
At AJE you will find a lot of activities focused on different items and segments, but also a lot of general motivational activities, for example, dissemination of programs provided by state institutions such as the agency National Innovation (ANNI), the Chamber of Commerce and Services (CUCyS), find a lot of peers with whom they will be able to share experiences and learn from their best practices, their mistakes and successes.
– What was the objective of this meeting “From Uruguay to the world” in Punta del Este?
– Today’s activity specifically seeks to inspire, is to show us models of Uruguayan experiences and international experiences, and seeks not only to tell what is beautiful, but also to tell the difficulties they have gone through and how they have managed to overcome them. It is the first massive event of the year. AJE closes the year with what is called Conecta. This year it will be around the end of the year, five days in five different departments. These are events of this magnitude with great attendance, which are going to aim precisely at different topics, personal, professional, business development, and networking, of course.
Source: Ambito
