This is one of our Business Societies at NYU.

Today we had recruitment night with AlphaSight, an international management consulting company.

In this club, I serve as a Vice Director of Consulting. I teach and lead the projects

How recruitment night works:
Usually, the HR manager and possibly some associates or company presidents come and talk about their experiences and the candidate requirements. Afterward, there is a short Q&A session. At the end, there is a networking session where you can network with industry leaders or even show them your resume.

This summer, I accidentally came up with an idea for a startup. It was random and purely based on real-life observations. We came up with a first-of-its-kind type of social media app to connect entrepreneurs around the world. The first thing I did was share my idea with my close friend and current co-founder, Sardor.

Because of Sardor’s push we recently applied to UzCombinator with a pure MVP, only having dozens of users, among 1,600 startups. Among them, there were sharks and projects run by 30+ year-old founders. But usually, power is not in statistics, results, or age. It’s about your mindset, your thinking, and the potential you see in yourself. The best ideas don’t mainly come from experience, but from your ability to think uniquely and see potential where others don’t.

We passed to the last round. We went to an in-person interview in Tashkent. When the interview finished and we walked out of the room, giving a handshake to our CTO and Sardor, we were already expecting to be among the 30 admitted participants.

But here we go — we are waitlisted among a few other candidates. This brought joy and double belief in the idea. We still have a chance to get in, but that’s not matters now.

Prioritize aiming to create unique, global ideas. Try to give them a shot. If not, you always have a second alternative: making an existing idea in the market.

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