Based in California and Washington, The Disruptive Factory is an initiative that, since 2017 supports and helps using technology for other companies to achieve effectively the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this, five women who believed in the importance of promoting different types of technology around the world got together.<\/p>\n
Natalia Olson-Urtecho<\/strong> is the co-founder of The Disruptive Factory. For this entrepreneur, the ecosystem created by Barcelona Tech City is a great space of collaboration for people to feel free and to share between them, sell among them, which is very important. For her that is a model worth to replicate in other latitudes.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of technologies, especially in Silicon Valley, that are trying to figure out how to help the environment, how to build inclusivity, how to communicate, how to create good transportation systems, how to figure out ways to help world. \u201cSo, we work with angel investors and VCs, and we\u2019re trying to promote these technologies across the world. So, we advise them with their financial, aim them to achieve the next pilot, and we help them the grow\u201d. This enthusiasm for generating different cooperation levels boosts and accelerating development in different companies.<\/p>\n Starting a company from an idea, project or conviction is the first step of every entrepreneur. However, is a fact that not always it\u2019s a success when you try. \u201cI am an entrepreneur before anything, and entrepreneurship for me has been since the beginning, since I was a small kid. I worked every summer in my grandfather\u2019s hardware store and I loved to make money, so I always have been able to balance between work, and starting a company, or studying and starting a company, or figuring out ways that I can help someone start a company\u201d. For Olson, one of the most important things about entrepreneurship is the learning process.<\/p>\n Many times, one of the biggest obstacles that an entrepreneur faces are the negativity and the lack of trust from the people around them. \u201cI actually started a company when I was in college, when I came to the US to study, and everyone kept telling me \u00abno, it\u2019s not possible\u00bb, \u00abthat\u2019s a crazy idea\u00bb, \u00abit\u2019s never going to work\u00bb, and actually that was a challenge\u201d. However, being young and determined didn\u2019t stop her didn\u2019t stop her, she kept going even if failure were there. For Natalia, failing, especially in the US, is not a problem at all, is an opportunity to get up and start all over again.<\/p>\n After the failing in her first company as well as and second one, she decided to build a new one, not firstly without understanding that she needed mentors before to start again. Looking out capable people to guide the process. On her next try she was better prepared and advised, merely resulted that her new company had a completely different approach.<\/p>\nCOLLABORATION AS A DEVELOPMENT PILLAR<\/strong><\/h6>\n
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS A LEARNING PROCESS<\/strong><\/h6>\n
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS ABOUT LOSING FEAR OF FAILURE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n