 It's my pleasure to welcome you to this Tech Connect. You know, entrepreneurs are idea farmers. Our job is to harvest ideas. But in order to harvest ideas, you have to plant seeds of ideas, water, and feed them, and hope that some of them will grow. I think all ideas, all successful businesses, are ultimately about solving problems that nobody has solved or solving them in a differentiated way. Getting your idea at the right time is really important. Because if it's at the wrong time, all you can do is wait. Like right now, I think if I were to try to do my robot company again, I think it would be a massive success. In fact, I might do it. In fact, I might join you. So the whole concept of broodstrapping is finding ways to do more with less at every turn. You come as an entrepreneur with a lot of passion and an idea. And you think this idea is perfect and it's going to work. And what bootstrapping forces you to do, because you're really relying on few resources, is to really find out, is there a market for this? Is it practical? Will it work? One of our students who actually did bootstrap building a rocket. Over the four years that he was doing his undergraduate degree, he has three patents in his name. He built an 18-foot rocket for under $30,000. I can't think of a single thing where you couldn't bootstrap in some way. Space, the last frontier of bootstrapping. That's right. This initiative to help youth around the world to power up their dreams and turn their technology ideas into reality. I've been exposed to so many amazing opportunities here. The sessions with Jim, Chuck, Scott, Ovidio, I don't know what they did or how they did it, but they pulled out the one I wanted to be and that I wasn't sure that I can be. Now I am braver than I was three days ago. The more powerful thing that you could gain is a network of entrepreneurs and mentors from prestigious US institutions like Stanford, MIT, and so on. We just want to say that, yes, we are proud to be a part of this family. Are you networking towards investors? Are you networking towards potential clients? Honen on what it is that you want to get out of this networking. It's all about effective communication. Formulate your message properly. Figure out what you need to say to the appropriate audience. There's nothing like being able to talk to somebody face-to-face. I mean, I love every social media outlet out there and email and all that kind of a technologist inside out. But at the end of the day, the human element of standing face-to-face and talking to somebody and sharing with them your story really makes a big difference. Where we're seeing crowdfunding fit are really allowing me to get from an idea or a concept to a prototype. Or I have a prototype. Now I want to see if there are actually customers who are willing to purchase my product. The whole notion of crowdfunding came out of a problem in the marketplace. Access to capital has been an enduring challenge. You have to be able to demonstrate that you've got that traction that this is a good idea and other people can be part of that. When we first started, we were inexperienced. And mentorship from GIST gave us a lot of help. Participating in such programs like GIST and Tech Women really helps the entrepreneurs to expand new markets, create better business models, and building more successful startups. Being in the GIST program has come pretty handy for us because through this program, we are able to reach our target customers. Personally, I've been able to meet a lot of educational institutions and NGOs who are interested in sponsoring children to use our platform for free. And GIST has provided that. In the end is the ideas that translate into action. And values and ventures are those that matter.