Bart-Jan Leijts built Lareca, an AI platform for hotels. Young founders struggle to find peers who understand entrepreneurship when their friends are still in school or entry-level jobs. Leijts says seeking out dedicated entrepreneur communities and mentors makes the difference.
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Today we're going to meet Bart-Jan Leijts, who is a young entrepreneur. He's got a company called Lareca in the hotel and hospitality industry. You mentioned earlier about, you know, starting this business as a young entrepreneur. How are you getting yourself noticed? Outside of the Loreca brand, are you finding that there's a good community of young entrepreneurs that you can talk with and share the challenges that you're facing?
Yeah, so that's actually a good question. What I always do, and I'm very active in this matter, is I'm always searching for different groups, different communities where I can just put my ears down or let someone hear my voice. In regarding to young entrepreneurship, this is a bit of like a disadvantage people are not talking about that much is that the peer group is way different than an entrepreneur who is a bit older. Because for us, for like the young entrepreneurs, the peer group, like the close friends, they're all still studying, they're all starting their first job, like they're in different phase of their life. So like finding people you really relate with struggles of young entrepreneurship, it's very hard. And that's why I always encourage older people that are like in similar positions and myself too, a lot of the times to actively search these groups, search these forums. Search whatever, where you can like find some peers where you can connect with, because these are the people that are struggling with the same decision.
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