Interview with Roger Serra… | English: a must have for entrepreneurs
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:33 am
Roger Serra worked as an Associate Professor of International Relations for eight years at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His work has taken him to China and around different countries in Asia where he took on a variety of projects and carried out research for the university. Now centered back in Sabadell, he has successfully taken his experience and transitioned into the world of the entrepreneur. What's up! Sabadell is happy to host Roger Serra as our first guest speaker sharing his knowledge and insights into the world of start ups in a series of talks on starting a business.
English has become the technological lingua franca. As a software lithuania phone number list company CEO… How important is it to have a team equipped with excellent English skills in this field?
English is a must on the digital business because it has three special characteristics:
1. Digital products have no geographic barriers. A website, an app, a program, etc. can be programmed and accessed from everywhere in the world, so your market and your potential clients can be everywhere. You may be a small company based in Sabadell but easily end up working for clients in California, Switzerland or Holland (as we do) in DAU Apps.
2 . Even if most of your clients are local, you would have to deal with many companies (Apple, Google, etc) at an enterprise level, that would only have English as a way to communicate.
3. The digital revolution speaks English. Innovation goes so fast that the latest information is most of the time only available in English. And it changes so often that most of the times it never gets translated to other languages.
Would you say it's essential to travel abroad before embarking on the journey towards entrepreneurship? How do you eat?
Traveling and living abroad really helps to open your mind, and being open minded is a must to be an entrepreneur.
Traveling is a great way to learn other ways of doing things. Especially if you travel in a way that allows you to interact and get involved with the locals. I think it's much more interesting to be working for a week in a foreign country than spending one month just sightseeing
English has become the technological lingua franca. As a software lithuania phone number list company CEO… How important is it to have a team equipped with excellent English skills in this field?
English is a must on the digital business because it has three special characteristics:
1. Digital products have no geographic barriers. A website, an app, a program, etc. can be programmed and accessed from everywhere in the world, so your market and your potential clients can be everywhere. You may be a small company based in Sabadell but easily end up working for clients in California, Switzerland or Holland (as we do) in DAU Apps.
2 . Even if most of your clients are local, you would have to deal with many companies (Apple, Google, etc) at an enterprise level, that would only have English as a way to communicate.
3. The digital revolution speaks English. Innovation goes so fast that the latest information is most of the time only available in English. And it changes so often that most of the times it never gets translated to other languages.
Would you say it's essential to travel abroad before embarking on the journey towards entrepreneurship? How do you eat?
Traveling and living abroad really helps to open your mind, and being open minded is a must to be an entrepreneur.
Traveling is a great way to learn other ways of doing things. Especially if you travel in a way that allows you to interact and get involved with the locals. I think it's much more interesting to be working for a week in a foreign country than spending one month just sightseeing