My First Women in Tech Breakfast in Prague: Entrepreneurship Means Learning Everything at Once

Last November 28th, I sat down for breakfast at WeWork in Prague surrounded by women who are building businesses, seeking funding, scaling their companies, and — in many cases — learning on the fly everything that university never taught them. It was my first Women in Tech event in Prague, and I wasn't sure what to expect.

What I found was a pretty accurate reflection of my own reality.

What Is the Women in Tech Breakfast

The Women in Tech Breakfast is a series of regular breakfast events held in Prague, organized by the Research Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (VÚPI) with the support of the Czech Chamber of Commerce for Huawei Technologies Czech, in collaboration with EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an agency of the European Union.

The program is designed to support talented and ambitious women in the startup environment. Through mentoring, workshops, and educational events, participants develop their skills, expand their networks, and share real entrepreneurship experiences. Each edition has a central theme: the May 2024 event focused on safety and security, while this November edition centered on education as a key tool for the next generation of women in technology.

The event is free, open to everyone, and held entirely in English. The format — two hours of breakfast with panel discussions, entrepreneur pitches, and networking — hits the sweet spot: long enough to have meaningful conversations, short enough to stay focused. You can tell it's designed so that you leave having met real people with real projects.

Entrepreneurship Is More Than Your Core Skill

I'm an iOS developer and co-founder of AtalayaSoft, an iOS development studio that works with companies as a B2B contractor. My day-to-day is writing Swift code, designing architectures, and contributing to professional iOS apps. That's my comfort zone.

But running a business forces you out of that zone every single day. Accounting, taxes, branding, communications, content marketing, sales strategy, client management… The list never ends. And there's no YouTube tutorial that prepares you to do all of this at once.

We've been running AtalayaSoft for seven years. In that time, I've learned that mastering your technical field is just the starting point. Everything else — all the stuff that surrounds the business — you learn along the way, by making mistakes, asking questions, and not stopping.

At the breakfast I saw exactly that: brilliant women in their respective fields — some in tech, others with physical businesses — facing the same challenge of growing in multiple directions at once. Each one at a different stage: some just starting out, others consolidating, others looking to take the next leap. But all of them sharing the reality that entrepreneurship demands learning far beyond your specialty.

When a Physical Business Needs Tech

One thing that caught my attention was seeing entrepreneurs with physical businesses who need to make the leap to digital: a website, an Android app, an iOS app. They have the product, they have the customers, they have a clear vision. What they're missing is a development team that understands their business and can help them build the tech side without overcomplicating things.

That hits close to home. At AtalayaSoft, that's precisely how we work: we integrate into our clients' teams to build enterprise-quality iOS apps. And I'd love to be able to help entrepreneurs who are at that stage of needing a reliable tech partner.

What I'm Taking Away

What I'm taking away most is a feeling I didn't expect: I'm not alone in this. When you're building a business, especially in tech, especially as a woman, it sometimes feels like you're reinventing the wheel. But in that room there were dozens of women doing exactly the same thing: growing in their field, learning a thousand new things along the way, and pushing forward.

That made me genuinely happy. It made me happy to see myself reflected in other entrepreneurs who, like me, combine their technical specialty with everything else that running a business involves. No business book gives you that. Sitting down for breakfast with people who understand what it means to build something from scratch does.

What's Next?

I'll keep attending these events. I want to get to know the community of women entrepreneurs in Prague and across Europe better. And if at any point someone in that community needs help with iOS development — an app, a technical consultation, a codebase audit — I'll be happy to lend a hand.

Entrepreneurship means learning everything at once. But it doesn't have to be a solo journey.

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