It comes with a great show of emotions to truly understand the real meaning of Valentines Day. To me, it is best described as the show of passion and dedication towards something that you are fond off, something that you don't mind spending your time and effort to nurture, and mainly something that you will boldly stand up to protect with all your might when its position is threatened.
And for me at this moment of time - nothing more can describe my love which is for BQE.
I started off Building Quality Entrepreneur (BQE) as a back room entrepreneurial event, after convincing a kind business owner to organize sessions in his tiny seminar room. Everything was in its infancy stages; there was no website, no proper marketing channel, no marketing materials - in fact I only relied solely via word of mouth and through the small group of friends i have on my social network channels. Thankfully, there were kind souls who supported me and even turned up for my event on that very first session. My gratitude goes to them for the show of support.
Fast track a few session down the road, with a new exciting partner involved - we survived without a proper storyline, without a proper agenda, even without a proper understanding about how we intended to take this new found name, commonly termed as BQE (as it was a mouthful to say it all in full) to the next level. Without a proper structure, we were heading nowhere, knowing clearly that sooner or later this unstable platform looks fated to collapse under its ever growing popularity. Luckily to note that the success BQE had in creating an impact to the immediate surroundings provided it the edge it desperately needed to ensure survival. The epitome of BQE was the representation it had in a nationwide conference, attended by over 400 delegates - The AIESEC Malaysian Leadership Development Seminar (MyLDS) held in December 2010.
The success of BQE in creating change gave it the exposure it very much needed - and the sweetest success of them all was the offer to a proper events venue for it to run its sessions. We were very kind to be able to accept the offer from Plug & Play Technology Gardens, (Under Modal Perdana and Ministry of Finance) to be able to host us for all our sessions in 2011. This venue can be dubbed as the entrepreneurial hub of Kuala Lumpur. The amazing turn out of participants after only 5 sessions at 60plus pax gave it the best ever attendance in our record breaking year of 2010. This summed up my love affair to BQE for the year 2010.
Hence at this period of hecticness for me, i may have reached a point where i need to start letting go the one thing that i loved so much, slowly. I am amazed and equally excited to know that i have now formed a new team that will continue these efforts to build and develop more entrepreneurs. This new team will be much better organized than what i started off with, looking at creating a proper organization to ensure the constant development of entrepreneurs. This new team will be the team that an entrepreneurial movement as ambitious as BQE very much needs, and im pretty sure that when Q3 comes - BQE will be even more prepared to organize its first ever yearly summit! The birth of this new team, to continue something i love so much - is the best ever valentines gift I can ask for this year :)
"Stay tuned for the new BREWING Quality Entrepreneurs (BQE) to be held from the 1st of March onwards! Yes this is an early teaser to all of you who manage to read this article this far in :) I am very sure that the new BQE in 2011 will be even more engaging then before."
Maybe as i have mentioned about love, love also involves the process of letting your loved ones go for the better of both sides. However, i will continue to spearhead the entire series of BQE, but at this time, with lesser control over things.
What do you love and does it impacts others around you?
Ask yourself :)
Happy Valentines.
p/s - Stay tuned for more exciting news at www.bqe.my!
HJH
