Playground for Entrepreneurs

Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in personal and business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Inge de Dreu, Founder of Playground for Entrepreneurs, located in Oss, Netherlands.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

I help entrepreneurship coaches and educators to make the process of early discovery more fun for their participants or students. I do that using a gamified entrepreneurship coaching/teaching tool called the Playground for Entrepreneurs. I also train people to apply it, as it is a very flexible tool and can be used in many ways and for many different audiences. Customers tend to be independent coaches as well as Entrepreneurship Centers and otherwise entrepreneurship-promoting organizations.

Tell us about yourself

Entrepreneurship has the power to change the world. Entrepreneurs can change their world or their customer's world and really make a difference. That's why I believe it is so important to focus on opportunity-based entrepreneurship - it's about finding and creating value (not just monetary). And there are so many potential entrepreneurs around in some places that we need to support the coaches and educators to promote this type of entrepreneurship gamification, and the Playground for Entrepreneurs offers an excellent way to do this.

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

Shipping. Being able to deliver a great product that can benefit many coaches/educators AND their participants or students.

What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?

There is only one person accountable for the progress of the venture: the founder. That means taking on a lot of different activities and roles, which is a challenge both in the positive and the negative sense! There is no fixed path and no right or wrong, necessarily, in terms of strategic decisions. Dealing with high uncertainty makes this type of work interesting, but it also brings difficulties.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

Go talk with customers in an empathic way that doesn't allow you to understand their struggles deeply.
Take your time to create your product even though you use low-fidelity prototyping, and set high-quality standards for yourself.
Solve a problem and create value. Without it, you're lost.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://playgroundforentrepreneurs.com/
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3PImt2V

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