Stories about Czech entrepreneurs

I´m going to participate in the project MuzesPodnikat.cz for our company (the first summarized article was published in spring on ihned.cz), which takes place in different high schools and at the universities in the Czech republic. It´s organized by volunteer entrepreneurs, who aren´t there just for recognitions from the students for what they achieved and what they didn´t, but more for the purpose of talking about everyday things in life and plans of those young folks. I like this project and that´s why I immediately said ok on this matter. I got a little intimidated by the though of being in the same team with mister Dědek from Jablotron or mister Petr Novotný from the glass factory Ajeto, because in comparison with what they achieved is my little company in east Germany very small. On the other hand, the differences are easily erased, when you stand before 60 students who have absolutely no idea why you are even there and what are you going to talk about for two whole hours.   

I got the periphery Liberec and after my first presentation which took place in Jablonec nad Nisou I had the chance to feel how it´s realy like before I could get used to it. Right after my entrance into the classroom I heard someone whispering the first question: "Holy shit, what does he have in those bags?" this question was answered right back with: "He has got it crammed with cash". Mister Novotný arrived that day later, that´s why I had to talk alone before 59 boys and one girl. Most of them sat in the back rows. You can probably imagine it lively. In the first few minutes I was asking myself what I´m even blabbering about, that´s why I had to identify myslef with them which required to travel back in time a couple of years, so that at least someone will listen to me, I then grew gradually to the conclusion that it´s kinda fun (I hope it´s not just one sided:) and now I was already on my fifth school. I was even assigned to the very grammer school where I was failing four years in a row before I went over to technical school. The presentation was fortunately anonymous thus nobody from my previous teachers knew about it. The professor who used to get me detention is still teaching there :) It was a really odd feeling coming back to this school after 15 years when you knew in that time, that in fact everything you had ever wanted to accomplish is diverging from the opinions of all adults.     

Long time ago I thought about making some kind of internet shipping system and one person told me that I can do it. That same person contacted me after nine years and told me that he is organizing this project (muzespodnikat.cz) and if I´m interested in participating in it too. I was with this idea of shipping system, which you probably also use if you are our client, in the USA in 2006 where I had the chance to to see how young people are supported in every aspect outside of the bounds of posibbilities or in this case of the intergrated education system at schools. I was sitting there among thousands of people with the same enthusiastic feelings and same age as me and I was repeating the same sentece of my class teacher to myself, and that is if he would get arrested for signing all those papers which were needed for my departure. I then realized that we were brought up in an evironment with strong demotivating spirit which stood against our development and that time it got me really bad (the more cause I didn´t win the scholarship in Stanford:) But with the years passing by I can say that the Czech republic is better now than before and an entrepreneur already does not only represent something between a cuss word and an exploiter. I think that we are moving, even if it´s slow but still it´s in the right direction.