There was once, a very short time ago, a group of three young university students who one day thought of creating a company that would produce high-definition equipment for geosismic explorations.
There was once, a very short time ago, a group of three young university students who one day thought of creating a company that would produce high-definition equipment for geosismic explorations.
In their endeavor, they studied the market, made the financial analysis of their project and everything was very viable, there was an untapped market that needed this type of tools, the financial projections were flattering and they would be pioneers in this type of production. These results emerged from their study, encouraged them to start working on their project.
Once the project was ready and before starting to produce the first team, one of them thought that it would be important, to develop his project, the support of his university, so he proposed to his two colleagues that they would take the project to the university.
The next day, they got up very early to present their project at their beloved university. They first introduced it to some professors who might be interested, then to the deans, and then to the principals, but to their surprise, only a couple of professors paid attention to them.
The three young entrepreneurs returned home thinking that perhaps their project was not as interesting as they thought since their beloved university had ignored them.
But that night, another of the young people proposed taking his idea to a state entity that provided support to SMEs.
Again, very early in the morning they went out with all the spirit to present their project in the entity, but when they arrived, they stumbled over a huge pile of paperwork and crashed into the immense wall of the bureaucracy and barely managed to leave a copy of their project, which was filed along with those of 16 other entrepreneurs who got up early that day.
Again they returned home thinking that perhaps their project was not good because the entity had not listened to them either. But that night the last of them proposed taking his idea to a company that might be interested.
They left early and arrived at the company early, where a friendly receptionist asked them: do you have an appointment with someone? Who can I advertise them with? To which they replied: Thank you, miss, we have a company project to produce high definition equipment for geosismic exploration and as we know that this company is in the oil exploration business, we think you may be interested. The young lady very gently said to them: excuse me, but if you don't have an appointment, I can't allow you to pass, but if you want I can get you an appointment with Pedro Pérez, the assistant to the assistant to the Rojas Engineer advisor, in… let me see… three weeks, it's okay? Well, answered the three entrepreneurs, who, disappointed, returned home.
This "story", which has no end, although it sounds childish and fanciful, usually occurs quite frequently due to the little support that is provided, both in educational institutions (in which they prefer to train employees than entrepreneurs) and in state agencies and in private companies to the initiatives of young people, who, although they have no experience or influence, do have a lot of desire and at least deserve to be attended and listened to.
