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Startup founders have infamously unpredictable daily schedules as they work to establish and grow their businesses. What does such an entrepreneur\u2019s weekly, daily, or even hourly routine look like when sometimes there aren\u2019t enough hours in a day? In the <\/em>Startup Diaries<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, founders walk us through a week in their lives and show what it really takes to get a fledgling business off the ground.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About seven years into her career as a software engineer, Hui Wang decided to take a break to travel, but she couldn\u2019t find anyone who was willing to join her. \u201cI had to give myself a pep talk,\u201d she says. \u201c\u2018Just go on your own.\u2019\u201d She did just that, spending a couple of dreamy months in late 2016\u2013early 2017 exploring Australia and New Zealand. When she returned home to London, she landed another full-time job\u2014but her idea for Koala Travel<\/a> was beginning to take shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what I wanted to build, exactly,\u201d she says. \u201cI just knew I wanted to do something about this particular problem. A lot of people put off traveling because they don\u2019t have someone to go with.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She started by creating an app that would connect like-minded travelers, but had \u201cno clue what to do with it,\u201d she says. So she joined a coworking space that introduces members with mentors, which is where she met her eventual cofounder, Stuart Megarry. He suggested she scrap the app and build a website (\u201cit\u2019s easier for people to find,\u201d she explains), and from there she organized her first trip\u2014to Asturias, Spain\u2014in early 2018. \u201cIt was me and two other women on that trip,\u201d Wang remembers. \u201cI\u2019m still friends with them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megarry officially joined the company in August 2018, which is also when Wang quit her job to go full-time. She\u2019s since planned adventures, which typically include about 10 travelers, in places like Lisbon, Paris, and Slovenia; still to come in 2019 are trips to Blue Lagoon in Iceland, Vienna, and Amsterdam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Koala offers more than out-of-town excursions; the majority of its profits come from local weekly \u201cexperiences\u201d\u2014a dumplings tour or a journey exploring London\u2019s street art, for example. \u201cOriginally my thought was that we\u2019d do tons of trips in a year,\u201d Wang says. The vision changed in part for financial reasons\u2014they wouldn\u2019t be able to scale a company that offered only trips\u2014but the shift also made sense. \u201cThe mission of Koala hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d says Wang, a WeWork Labs<\/a> member at 8 Devonshire Square<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s about connecting people, curing loneliness.\u201d In 2020, she hopes to host about eight trips as well as multiple London-based experiences each day. Below, she shares her diary of a recent workweek, just ahead of a fantasy trip to an exclusive island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wang not only created the idea of Koala Travel, but she also organizes and leads the trips on-site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 a.m<\/strong>. Settle in at the office, make myself a cup of tea, and write out my to-do list. I come in a little later than usual on Mondays to make up for lost sleep since, until now, I\u2019ve been hosting all of our weekend experiences. Thankfully, we just hired a new associate, Goda, to help with those. She\u2019s a godsend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15 a.m.<\/strong> Finish designing the Koala roller banner and posters for the WeWork Labs Investor Open House event on Friday. It\u2019s a showcase event for startups, but we have a trip the same weekend, so I won\u2019t be able to make it. Even though we are not actively seeking investments, it\u2019s good to have a presence at these events.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30 p.m.<\/strong> Grab a quick lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\u20133 p.m.<\/strong> Finalize details for this weekend\u2019s trip to Osea Island, off the coast of Essex. It\u2019s an exclusive, 380-acre island that normally only caters to corporate events, weddings, or celebrities like Rihanna, but my business partner, Stuart, managed to secure it for the weekend. We have 22 people going, which means it\u2019ll be our biggest trip yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3\u20135 p.m<\/strong>. Brainstorm our \u201cKoala Fridays\u201d concept. The idea is to host a different event every Friday to connect like-minded people. We\u2019re going to start with a private-dining experience. A friend owns this gorgeous restaurant in East London, and we\u2019ll do a three-course tasting menu where the chef will explain to us the origin and history of each dish. We\u2019ll also have someone tell us about the wine. My job is about knowing the right people and making the right friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 p.m.<\/strong> Catch up on emails. We get quite a lot of customer inquiries, and I\u2019m trying to set a specific time each day to reply\u2014that way I\u2019m not constantly getting distracted from other tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 p.m.<\/strong> Back home and cooking with my housemate. I love cooking and he loves eating, so we make the perfect team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 p.m. <\/strong>Piano time! I\u2019m writing a new song at the moment. Keep an eye out for my first album due out in 2050 :-).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 a.m.<\/strong> Arrive at the office and have my weekly meeting with Stuart. This week is all about making sure the island trip goes smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 a.m.<\/strong> Upload the next batch of Koala experiences onto Klook<\/a> and BuyAGift<\/a>, two travel platforms that we\u2019ve been trying to partner with. It\u2019s finally happened!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 a.m. <\/strong>Coffee time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15 a.m.<\/strong> Inform vendors that future experiences will be run by Goda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30 p.m. <\/strong>Lunchtime. I walk around Old Spitalfields Market<\/a> for a bit. Walking helps me clear my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:30 p.m. <\/strong>Call with the event organizer of a panel talk I\u2019m doing this Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 p.m.<\/strong> Create a WhatsApp group for our island trip to get everyone excited. My phone starts going off immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:45 p.m.<\/strong> Create our weekly newsletter for subscribers; we keep them up to date with what\u2019s going on in the Koala family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 p.m. <\/strong>Social-media time! Promote Goda\u2019s guide to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. We regularly get travel lovers within our network to write authentic guides of their favorite cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 p.m.<\/strong> At the start of this year, I thought to myself, \u201cI need a better work-life balance.\u201d So on Tuesdays and Thursdays I usually go to tae kwon do. This week, I skip class to see Noises Off<\/em>, which is a play about a play. It\u2019s actually quite funny. In the first act, you see the actors during the play, with things going wrong; in the second act, you see their backstage reactions. It reminds me of running a business: Customers see a smiling face no matter what, but behind the scenes you\u2019re like, What\u2019s happening<\/em>?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 p.m. <\/strong>Straight to bed. I\u2019m absolutely knackered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work-life balance is usually a struggle for entrepreneurs, so Wang makes sure she fits in activities like tae kwon do, musicals, and playing piano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 a.m.<\/strong> Arrive at the office and make tea. Meet with Goda for training. She\u2019s been shadowing me for a couple of weeks now, but this weekend will be her first time hosting our weekly dumplings-and-chicken-wings tour solo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 a.m.<\/strong> Set up the roller banner I designed on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 p.m. <\/strong>Finalize details of the private-dining experience and list it on our website and partner platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:30 p.m. <\/strong>Lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:45 p.m. <\/strong>Plan our 2020 trips with Stuart. Most of our trip ideas don\u2019t have much scientific backing behind them. It\u2019s like, \u201cI want to go there and do this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 p.m. <\/strong>Fix some bugs on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 p.m.<\/strong> Back home. After some food, I read another chapter of Trillion Dollar Coach<\/em><\/a>, a book about leadership that Stuart recommended. Definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9\u201311 a.m.<\/strong> Talk on a panel called \u201cA Morning of Small Business Inspiration\u201d with three other founders. We talk about how we started out, the mistakes we made along the way, and what advice we have for other entrepreneurs. I share how, in hindsight, I spent too much of my early stage thinking about things like What is the right font size? What is the right color? I\u2019m not saying details like that aren\u2019t important. But running a business, it\u2019s important to prioritize your tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 p.m.<\/strong> Lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 p.m.<\/strong> Hand over some last-minute details for Sunday to Goda. She\u2019s going to be great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 p.m. <\/strong>Go through all my emails. Schedule a few social-media posts since I\u2019m not sure how good the signal is on the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 p.m.<\/strong> Leave relatively early so I can get a good night\u2019s sleep before our epic trip. I am in bed by 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 a.m<\/strong>. Wake up. Day of departure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 a.m.<\/strong> Due to high tide, the island can be reached by car only twice a day for four hours at a time, so I\u2019m eager to get everyone on our minibus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 p.m.<\/strong> We arrive, but I\u2019m still waiting for one customer, who wanted to drive himself. He arrives as the water level is rising on the road. Had he been five minutes later, he wouldn\u2019t have been able to make it onto the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:30 p.m.<\/strong> Everyone settles into their assigned cottages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 p.m.<\/strong> Time for a BBQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 p.m.<\/strong> We light the firepit and talk and sing around it all night. We then move to the beach area for a spontaneous beach party that becomes a pool party. It\u2019s such a blast. When you\u2019re the person organizing and planning a trip, you have a certain responsibility. In that sense, these trips are always work for me. But once everyone\u2019s arrived and I see things are working out, I have a good time and it does feel a bit like a holiday. I can\u2019t fully switch off, but I\u2019m grateful for every experience. I\u2019m getting to travel and meet like-minded people, and that\u2019s exactly why I started this business in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interested in joining our community of early-stage startups? Check out WeWork Labs<\/a> to learn more about our global platform for forward-thinking companies. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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