A Day within the Lifetime of Entrepreneur Jenkin Xia, Co-Founding father of WUUK Labs

Operating your personal enterprise is not any simple feat. It takes a wholesome dose of ardour, self-discipline, and dedication. Ever puzzled what a day within the lifetime of a enterprise proprietor and founder is like? We’re right here to provide you a glimpse! In honor of Worldwide Ladies’s Day (March 8), we are going to characteristic a feminine entrepreneur each week for the whole month — supplying you with an unique, first-hand look into 24 hours of their day. 

This week, we shine the highlight on entrepreneur Jenkin Xia, co-founder and Chief Working Officer of WUUK Labs. WUUK is a great video doorbell that permits you to monitor your step, see who’s there, and talk with guests. It’s inexpensive, simple to put in, and guarantees to provide your house or enterprise professional-level wi-fi safety with none hidden storage charges or costly month-to-month subscriptions.

Learn on to see how she spends her day, shuttling between Shanghai and the Bay Space. Then scroll down for a short Q&A to get to know her higher and get impressed!

9 A.M. – Boil a cup of espresso utilizing my Moka pot, whereas listening to audiobooks on my cellphone. Lately, I’ve been listening to Bob Iger’s The Experience of A Lifetime. I’m an enormous fan of paper weekly planners. It’s a bit old school, I do know. At present, I take advantage of the Traveler’s Pocket book. I’d use the time over breakfast and occasional for planning.

10 A.M. – Day by day Scrum assembly. Normally earlier than the staff scrum assembly, I spend about 10 minutes checking all of the help channels to gather suggestions or replies from our customers and prospects. I normally request them the night time earlier than.

11 A.M. – I take advantage of this time to work cross-functionally on duties with different staff members, like speaking with our designer to enhance our UI, or creating belongings for social media content material. 

12 P.M. – It’s lunch time! Time to browse the information.

1 P.M. – Our staff normally takes a break round this time. Typically, we take naps. Typically, we could have enjoyable team-building actions, like order bubble tea takeouts, or play one or two rounds of on-line video games collectively. In a busy startup life, having enjoyable is essential!

2 P.M. – I discuss to exterior companions, like our marketing campaign company or packaging design firm to test on the venture progress and information report from the previous day. 

three P.M. – I think about duties that require my full consideration, like writing our Indiegogo marketing campaign updates and e-mail newsletters, or doing buyer help. 

5 P.M. – For me, these 2 hours are essentially the most stress-free and pleasurable hours in a day for many who work throughout the US-China time zone. Most of our backers are about to get up, so these are our quiet hours.

6 P.M. – Supper time. I normally order meals through a meals supply service often called Waimai.

Eight P.M. – Our common off-work time. Earlier than that, our staff checks the extent of completion on the work scheduled for the day, and see if there’s something we’d like to sync up on earlier than we go. That is particularly essential for me as a result of I’ll begin to have back-and-forth conversations with our backers.

9 P.M. – I bike or stroll residence, then take a bathe.

10 P.M. –  Earlier than I am going to mattress, I normally test all of the help channels one final time. Working throughout the Pacific Ocean, a lot of our customers and backers have woken up by now. They begin submitting tickets, help requests, and sending suggestions. If I can get them a well timed response, and talk forwards and backwards with them, I’m capable of get their data confirmed shortly. These normally contain organising their community, in the event that they want troubleshooting help. Typically, this course of can final for hours till 2:00 A.M.

Now that you simply’ve gotten a glimpse of what her day is like, get extra inspiration in our unique Q&A along with her under!

INDIEGOGO: How did you grow to be an entrepreneur? 

JENKIN XIA: It was one thing I deliberate for myself. As a journalist turned marketer, now an entrepreneur, I feel real curiosity is what drives me all the best way to the place I’m. 

Once I was in elementary faculty, I meant to be a reporter. I used to be lucky sufficient that I began my profession in media, and received into enterprise, finance, and tech reporting. Later, I spotted that behind each story a reporter writes, behind each quantity an organization presents on monetary experiences, there are a good quantity of individuals engaged on fulfilling, realizing, and creating. So I flipped sides so as to perceive and uncover what’s on the opposite facet of what I’ve skilled. This occurred a couple of instances in my profession, and ultimately led me to launch the startup with three co-founders, the journey that allowed me to find the enjoyable of making issues from scratch. 

Being an entrepreneur opened me as much as new alternatives, to find extra tales on a elementary degree, and construct expertise from a novel perspective. For me, it isn’t too totally different from being a reporter. 

IGG: What makes WUUK distinctive?

JENKIN:  Our staff is in a novel place to attach Chinese language manufacturing’s capabilities to the market’s want for dependable, user-friendly good residence units on the opposite facet of the ocean. Everyone knows that in manufacturing, to do enterprise with an business that could be a bit conventional, it’s essential to be there. It doesn’t matter what the {hardware} specs or app options are, our staff has collectively utilized all of the insights we’ve gathered from our residing, working, and academic experiences into the product. Secondly, we design for everybody. We bear inclusivity in thoughts after we design the product from the start, as a result of we embrace variety in our staff. Don’t design for males or girls. Design for everybody. And with a feminine founder within the product’s decision-making course of, it helps. 

IGG: What’s your finest recommendation for ladies entrepreneurs such as you?

JENKIN: Dare to be genuine. And accomplice with individuals who you could be genuine with. 

Worth the expertise as a substitute of cash and standing, so you aren’t scared by the challenges. Worth all of the alternatives offered to you to search out options and acquire expertise. 

IGG: What instruments do you suggest to anybody beginning their very own enterprise?

JENKIN: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Zero to One by Peter Thiel, How I Constructed This with Man Raz podcast on NPR, and I comply with @naval on Twitter. I additionally suggest everybody to obtain a favourite sport in your cell machine, for instances whenever you want a break out of your ideas or a distraction from work. Attempt Gap.io (sport app) or Overcooked. That is my method of not getting myself burned out. 

IGG: What’s your favourite Indiegogo marketing campaign? 

JENKIN: LynQ

To help and again WUUK, try their Indiegogo marketing campaign web page.

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