Habibe Altintas

When I applied to the Vneture Warrior, I didn’t have a clear idea in my mind, but I had a strong search inside me. I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do, but I knew very well that I didn’t want to postpone it anymore. As someone who has dealt with himself a lot, experienced many things, worn many hats, I have produced in different areas, struggled, sometimes fell but mostly got up on my own. Therefore, this program didn’t bring me “to do something for the first time”, but to carry the weight of what I have done before and to face them honestly. I learned to see what was already inside me, and perhaps for the first time to hear the places I had silenced for a long time.

This program didn’t just teach me how to generate ideas like a well-equipped entrepreneur or how to establish a business model. It first showed me how to know myself, realize my limits, what I can and cannot do as I claim, and then how to manage that inner strength. I distinguished how being resilient and strong are different. From my most difficult exams; I said goodbye to perfectionism, gained tools to manage my indecisiveness and stopped fighting uncertainty. Entrepreneurship here is not just a process of starting a business; it is also a process of character training, of getting reacquainted with an inner voice.

Venture Warrior was not a beginning for me, but a stop. A place where I stopped and looked at myself and asked, “Why did I do all these things, where do I want to go now?” And perhaps every journey deepens with such a stop.

“What you are looking for is also looking for you.” I found myself in the place where I stopped and looked.