Finding the Right Problem to Solve With Your Business: Joy Randels, Citizinvestor

August 16, 2017

This past summer, the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization and Future Founders assembled the 2017 Future Founders Fellowship of 17 collegiate entrepreneurs and paired those ventures with successful entrepreneurs and startup executives to address specific questions that founders come across every day.  The rapid-fire live stream sessions tackling the most pressing startup issues formed the first-ever Ideation Summit.

This segment consists of just one of the ten-minute match-ups that took place.

• Student Founder: Anthony Escamilla, 2017 Future Founders Fellow
• Entrepreneur: Joy Randels, Citizinvestor
• Question: “How do I find a valuable problem to solve for my next business, while making sure it’s something I’m passionate about?”

Take a look at the other segments that took place below.

• How do I improve my repeatable sales while setting my company up to scale?
• How do you approach international manufacturing to get started managing and dealing with international manufacturers or distributors?
• How can I better manage cash flow during the product development phase to be able to handle infrastructure and hiring expenses while building the product?
• How do I set up and manage my finances to know when to scale, both through wholesale and direct to consumer?
• How do I manage and maintain strategic partnerships while hiring to scale business development?
• How do I find a valuable problem to solve for my next business, while making sure it’s something I’m passionate about?
• How do you navigate bureaucratic structures to reach the right people?
• What can we do to build and grow our customer acquisition strategy?
• How do I establish good sales funnel and get a strong sales process up and running?