Design Terminal is an excellent catalyst between the world of startups and big corporations.
Attila Bolla, Head of MP Plant
Innovation Champion
´Our mentors truly believed in us´
Eszter Zborai
Art Bridge
CEO
A special feature of the Mentoring Program is that female entrepreneurs, mothers-to-be and mothers with small children, who are also founders of startups and are among the selected teams, receive an additional scholarship.
Eszter participated in the program while expecting her first child and Rita is a mom of four. Eszter and Rita were two of those mompreneurs of the Mentoring Program who showed how to ensure a balance between a professional career and the family.
Eszter graduated with a finance degree, but after a while she started looking for a more creative, people-centered job. She wanted to create value and do something whose outcome she could see every day. Together with her business partner, Rita Ábrahám, she jumped into the startup life. They founded [Art Bridge](https://www.artbridge.shop/en/), the Hungarian online art marketplace, offering talented artists’ contemporary design posters and unique decorative products at affordable prices. Their platform connects rising artists with the audience seeking unique inspirational decoration.
Objective:
- to develop the business and learn how to work with partners and attract potential investors
Key challenges:
- Perfecting and customizing the product to market demands
- Focusing on the social impact of the business and how it affects the wider audience
Outcomes:
- Enhanced awareness of how to create a presence and make a difference
- Learning how to negotiate with a potential investor, partner or supplier
Our mentors truly believed in our ability to make our dreams happen. We’ll miss this daily dose of boost and knowledge injection by the Design Terminal team. With this support we attained laser focus on how to define ourselves and how to make our platform really stand out.
