Hosting Ardian Hoxha, impacting a change in the world as an entrepreneur and investor!
“Time is life”. That is one of the impacting advices that our guest Ardian Hoxha shared with us during our latest event of Startup Grind Tirana. And our time was surely well spent. On May 5th, we gathered at Protik to welcome serial entrepreneur and investor Ardian Hoxha. An evening full of positive and visionary professionals gathering to boost knowledge and grind under the entrepreneurship spirit.
Ardian is a founder and investor of many successful businesses such as Green and Protein, American School of Kosova, Duplex Club, SushiCo Kosova and Albania, Albafone, Glam Radio. Ardian is also the founder and Chapter President of the Keiretsu Forum SEE (Southeast Europe).
He took us through his long and changemaking entrepreneurship journey. He shared how he first started working as a taxi driver at a young age. Later he united with his uncles to invest and established one of his first businesses. Now a successful entrepreneur, he also holds a MBA degree from the BLED University of Slovenia. He pointed that this academic achievement has been a very important investment on his personal and professional development.
One of the quotes that Ardian believes firmly is “To earn more ___ you must learn more ___” by Brian Tracy. Just fill your goal in the blanks and what you want to achieve, and start investing in that path now.
Ardian highlighted how important time management and organization is. He had brought with him his schedule. He presented to us an A4 paper with pen writings structured into a schedule. He said that time is life and as such we must be well organized and be efficient on how we manage our day towards our goals. Knowing how to organize your day through your tasks and goals will give you a clearer path to walk on.
Ardian said that on the early steps of your careers you should focus on starting small. Success doesn’t happen overnight. You could start by joining different trainings, conferences and internships that could boost your knowledge and skills. This will benefit you in your future steps and build your success gradually.
Ardian set a personal goal back in 2018. He aims to reach $100 billion in a period of 30 years. He believes that you can impact a change in the world even if you are not a politician. And you can do this through a successful entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can change the world, and he wants to make a change, impact and positively affect the growth in his country, region and world, by being an entrepreneur.
Ardian aims to use a part of this sum to invest in everything that can enhance the life of people, such as bringing the best hospitals and doctors in Kosovo, the best global Universities and professors or any other discipline that could better the life and standards of people into global standards.
On our longest Grind event to date, Ardian still kept our community very engaged and motivated. He is considered as a changemaker and surely his unique vision and experience changed something in us that evening. Even though the event finished around 9:30 pm, our entrepreneurship spirit was still highly buzzing.
Thank you Ardian for sharing everything you have learned and achieved with our community at Startup Grind Tirana. Thank you to our vibrant community for always supporting us and being ready to raise the hands energetically to manifest entrepreneurship.
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