Chairman Deo Ca: Don't drop out of school to pursue your passion for entrepreneurship

As the host, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Hieu Giang, Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education, said that we are living in a period of strong transformation of the country - the era of the digital age, where science, technology, innovation and digital transformation become key levers. As Resolution 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo clearly stated: this is not only a trend, but also a leading breakthrough factor for the country to develop quickly and sustainably.

In that context, starting a business – especially innovative start-ups of the young generation – is one of the key tasks. And to start a business successfully, besides knowledge and aspiration, we really need real stories and real experiences from those who have gone before – entrepreneurs who have started from zero, failed, and overcome challenges to achieve success.

Therefore, today's forum aims to become a space for connecting, sharing and spreading inspiration.

Inspiring students to start a business, Mr. Ho Minh Hoang, Chairman of Deo Ca Group (former student of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education) shared stories drawn from real-life experiences to make each step of starting a business for young people more stable.

Mr. Ho Minh Hoang, Chairman of Deo Ca Group

According to him, if you don't study, how can you work? Don't drop out of school to pursue your passion and don't think unrealistically.

Mr. Ho Minh Hoang shared with students personal and social stories when mentioning the issues of learning to walk before learning to run; if you want to go far, go together; attitude determines success more than qualifications; knowing how to set goals, make plans, estimate costs and manage risks; and persuasion skills.

Informing students about Deo Ca Group, Mr. Nguyen Quang Huy, General Director, said that Deo Ca is a strong group in the field of construction, operation and exploitation of transportation projects. The group's strategy is to persevere in the transportation sector. For the enterprise to develop like that, corporate culture is the top concern with the philosophy: managing people, managing work, managing benefits.

"People and culture are things that the group does not borrow but focuses on training and building" - Mr. Nguyen Quang Huy said and shared that in the process of training and human resource planning, the group applies the following steps: probation - apprenticeship - assistance - work management - work thinking.

At the forum, entrepreneurs from Golabs; GAP Institute shared their startup stories - opportunities and challenges; From the desk to the startup ecosystem: An uneven journey...

The 7th National Student Startup Festival, chaired by the Ministry of Education and Training, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, and the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), officially took place at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education.

The festival took place with seminars and forums: "Breakthrough solutions to promote creative startups in higher education institutions; Supporting creative startups in vocational education institutions in the digital economic era"; Solutions to promote innovative startup spirit of students from consulting, career, and employment activities; Startup inspiration from entrepreneurs; "Students with startup ideas" contest...

The Ministry of Education and Training said that this year's event also aims to summarize 7 years of implementing the project "Supporting students to start a business until 2025" (Project 1665); propose new, creative and effective solutions and methods to promote start-ups among students in the next phase. Thereby, promoting the process of creating and forming a start-up ecosystem in educational institutions; enhancing creativity among lecturers and students, forming scientific and technological products, innovation, start-up projects... Promoting the support, incubation and transfer of start-up ideas and projects of students to establish start-ups to increase the scale of the national start-up ecosystem...

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