Good times at YHPAA
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YHPAA (pronounced ya-paw) is the Young Hispancs Professional Austin Association. They had an entrepreneurial panel on Wednesday April 9th. I was on the panel along with Becky Arreaga of Mercury Mambo, Nora de Hoyos Comstock of Las Comadres, and Carlos Esteves of CGE Inc., a local construction firm.
We talked quite a bit about running businesses, and took questions on finding funding, how we got the idea to start our businesses, what our biggest challenges were, and what we do different if we were to start over again.
Funny enough, most of us agreed on a lot of things. Becky spoke for all of us when she said that if she had really known about all the challenges in front of her, she probably would not have even tried to start her company. Nora talked a lot about the power of relationships and networking. Carlos focused on the personal challenges of leaving a high-tech career to start a construction company. As usual, I roamed around quite a bit, mostly talking about things like “excellence” and figuring out your passion.
I’ve been promised photos (I saw the flash going off!) so once I have them, I will post here.
UPDATE: Here are the photos.
