Sunday, January 31, 2016

Entrepreneur Week 4 Reading Reflection

What surprised me the most and was different from my exceptions were the two approaches to creative problem-solving. I had never considered these two separate approaches, they were always blurred together in my perception of entrepreneurship.
I didn't find any part of the reading to be confusing, it made sense to me.
One question that I would like to ask the author is that do you really believe that entrepreneurship can be taught? The second question would be how long do you think that it would take?
I did not find anything that I thought that the author was wrong about, therefore, there was nothing that I was in disagreement with.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Entrepreneur Top 5 World Problems


Top 5 World Problems

Global warming
We need to improve technology and make it affordable in order to reduce the greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuel. Also, we should increase the efficiency and affordability of renewable energy sources.

Global unemployment
We should provide retraining for people that have been displaced due to technology. And we need to continue to raise economic investments in emerging economies.

The global water crisis
According to the World Bank and World Health Organization, there are 2 billion people that do not have access to clean water and another 1 billion people that don't have enough water to meet their daily needs.

Global food shortage
Find affordable means of agricultural production for the people that need it.

Global outbreak of disease
We need to do more research and find cures and prevention for diseases and make them available all over the world. Due to the amount of global travel that occurs today, diseases can spread rapidly from one place to another.

I choose global warming as number one because I believe that it has or will have an effect on the other four problems listed here.

Global unemployment was my second choice because if this could be resolved it would solve or almost eliminate the other three problems.

The global water crisis was my third choice because people need water to survive. They can go longer without food and still survive.

My fourth choice of the global food shortage was chosen because people must have food to survive.

The fifth choice of the global outbreak of disease was chosen because global travel is very assailable tom many people today and the travel times are very short allowing for people traveling with infectiou diseases to spread them world wide very quickly.

Top five solutions

Global unemployment
We should provide retraining for people that have been displaced due to technology. And we need to continue to raise economic investments in emerging economies.
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Global warming
We need to improve technology and make it affordable in order to reduce the greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuel. Also, we should increase the efficiency and affordability of renewable energy sources.

Global food shortage
Find affordable means of agricultural production for the people that need it.

Global outbreak of disease
We need to do more research and find cures and prevention for diseases and make them available all over the world. Due to the amount of global travel that occurs today, diseases can spread rapidly from one place to another.

The global water crisis
According to the World Bank and World Health Organization, there are 2 billion people that do not have access to clean water and another 1 billion people that don't have enough water to meet their daily needs.

Resolving the problem of global unemployment is the most implementable because if it is carried out properly it will result in a profit for all of the parties involved and this should help to resolve the other four problems. .

My second choice of global warming is implementable because most of the solutions are based on technology that is creating jobs, all we have to do is convince most people that the small investment that they will make will benefit not only the environment but the economy as well.

If the third problem of global food shortages can be resolved there is a good chance that some of that food produced may end up for sale benefiting the economy.

Resolving the global outbreak of disease will benefit not only the drug companies with profits but, will also reduce the health care cost of dealing with these diseases.

Eliminating the global water crisis is the least implementable because it does not always provide a profit. However, implementing it through tax deductible not for profit organizations will provide financial incentives for some people and organizations.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Entrepreneur Week 3 Reading Reflection

The biggest surprise in this reading was that different types of exercise can effect the outcome of different types of personal and professional goals. It is common belief that exercise reduces stress. But that different types of exercise can have different physiological outcomes amazed me.
 
I did not find any of the readings confusing.

My first question to the authors would, if you put your customers first by providing them with a quality product or service and their was some gray area in the law, would it be ethically correct to not be 100% in compliance with that law if it did not affect the quality of the product or service that you were providing?
My second question is that given the corporate entrepreneur that does not follow the status quo of their coworkers who are walking a fine line line between clever resourcefulness and outright rule breaking, wouldn't that corporate entrepreneur be acting ethically?

I did not find anything that the author was wrong about. Therefore, I cannot disagree with what she or he said, or How.

Entrepreneur Identifying Local Opportunities

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A local retired furniture salesman with some leftover new furniture found a home for some of it. After loosing everything being unable to work in the cold harsh northern environment the Army veteran and his wife relocated to Citrus County Florida. Having spent all of their money on motel rooms they found shelter at a local mission. The mission helped them get housing through the VA Supportive Housing initiative, run in partnership with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The problem, they had no furniture for their apartment and no money to buy it with. Through the local Disable American Veterans they were hooked up with retired furniture salesman who is also an Air Force veteran. He and his wife donated a new bedroom set to the couple for their new apartment.
The problem presented in this article is that there are people in need in our local community.
The homeless couple that relocated from up north were the one with the problem.

Bank makes $10,000 donation to food bank
A bank made a $10,000 donation to a local food bank that provides food to local residents in need. This donation will enable the food bank to purchase 88 pallets or 112,000 pounds of food that will provide about 80,000 meals.
The problem presented in this article is that there are still people in our community that are not able to buy food.
The people with the problem here are the ones in the community that are not able to buy food.

A refuge for recovery
Club Recovery, a non-profit organization, has provided a meeting place for recovering addicts in programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous for over three years. Now they are loosing the lease on their building. They have acquires a 1.6 acre piece of secluded property, however, they need to build a building, parking lot and retention pond on the property at cost of about $160,000 to $200,000 dollars. A GoFundMe account has raised over $70,000 in six months.
The problem here is that there are people in need of recovery from addictions in our community.
The problem here is that there are addicts in our community that are seeking help for their problems, also, there are charities that help these people that are in need as well.

Community comes together to ensure families don't go hungry
The Church Without Walls held their annual Thanksgiving food and turkey giveaway at their recently acquired property. Pastor Doug Alexander said that over 1,200 turkeys and related Thanksgiving food items were given away. He also said that the whole community had come together to make this happen.
There are still people in our community that are not able to get food to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Those with the problem are the ones that need help to get food for a Thanksgiving meal.

Learning to focus
Locally horses are being used as therapy to treat children with sensory processing disorder. This helps to increase their coordination and balance. Also, some of the children ave very tight muscles. Laying them flat on the back of the horse helps them to relax and loosen their muscles.
There are children with some unusual ailments that have some unusual treatments.
The children are the ones with the problem due to no fault of their own.
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Friday, January 22, 2016

Entrepreneur Very Short Interview No. 1

The entrepreneur that I interviewed was a previous employer of mine who has been in business for more than twenty years.I worked for him for over ten years. He realized an opportunity and made a success of it. He managed the business to best benefit not only himself, but also his customers, suppliers and his employees.

What should my expectations be in this course?
Coming into this course  I had expected it to be concerned with finding opportunities to open a business. That is not all that entrepreneurship is about. It is a process of realizing opportunities and taking advantage of those opportunities to provide a need for consumers.

On to the interview with my entrepreneur.
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What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
Stepping out into a new horizon.  Taking on a new environment that is not known or well structured or known to you. Willing to take on good amounts of risk due to an unknown environment. Entrepreneurs must like to take on challenges.and they have to be optimistic.

What do you think I should learn in an entrepreneurship course?
Think broadly. Don't look down a narrow path. You may not know which way things may come at you. Maintain a broad perspective. Entrepreneurs  have to be willing to change because of the unknown that may exist, they must be able to adapt to their circumstances. Seek out change. Entrepreneurs need to make their own roads, one will not be built for you.

What do you wish you had been taught in school before setting out on your own path as an entrepreneur?
Learning to think creatively.  How to use logic in decision making. To start with what you know in order to arrive at a decision about what you don't know. Learn decision making.

What I got from this interview is that entrepreneurs need to be flexible, adaptive, and be able to accept and to change. You need to have an open mind and constantly be adapting to your circumstances. Seek out change to improve your situation.  Entrepreneurs need to be creative and be able to use logic in their decision making.


Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Entrepreneur World's Biggest Problems

10 of the world's biggest problems
The global water crisis
According to the World Bank and World Health Organization, there are 2 billion people that do not have access to clean water and another 1 billion people that don't have enough water to meet their daily needs. We need to come up with affordable solutions to access water and to purify it for consumption.
Global extinction of species that are important to the human food chain.
We need to improve agricultural fertilizer and weed and pest control technology so that they will be more environmentally friendly. Changing industrial practices to return water used for industrial purposes can be returned in a usable form back into the environment.
Global warming
We need to improve technology and make it affordable that will reduce the greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuel. Also, we should increase the efficiency and affordability of renewable energy sources.
Global food shortage
find affordable means of agricultural production for the people that need it.
Global unemployment
We should provide retraining for people that have been displaced due to technology. And we need to continue to raise economic investments in emerging economies.
Escalating political and social instability
We need to try to work with these situations to best resolve the cause of the problem.
Global outbreak of disease
We need to do more research and find cures and prevention for diseases and make them available all over the world. Due to the amount of global travel that occurs today, diseases can spread rapidly from one place to another.
Nuclear weapons
We should create an environment that discourages the use of nuclear weapons to resolve a conflict.
Global Overpopulation
The world has finite resources to support our population. We should use education and technology to see that we maintain a world population that the earth can support.
People don't know what the world's problems are.
We need to educate everyone to realize that there are global problems that are going to affect not only them, but their children and their grandchildren and more.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Entrepreneur Week 2 Reading Reflection

Today's concept of an Entrepreneur is not the one that I had associated with it. Entrepreneurship for me was always associated with starting a business. Whereas, entrepreneurship is a mindset. This mindset can not only be used to start a business, but also to be used in entrepreneurial management.
Entrepreneurs are go geters, thinkers who can overcome the odds by learning from their mistakes. and accomplish what they set out to do. And, although they may be small business owners,they are driven by innovation, growth, and profitability. Entrepreneurs may be found in any type of organization, for-profit, not for-profit, or non business activities.
Entrepreneurs are responsible for change and creative innovative ideas. Under the micro view of entrepreneurship the trait school of thought that the atmosphere of being raised in an entrepreneurial
environment can lead to entrepreneurial success has been something that I have considered to be a big asset. And, if this is true, there is no reason that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, learned and used.
With regards to the worldwide entrepreneurial revolution of the twenty-first century being as important as the industrial revolution of the twentieth-century, wasn't the industrial revolution led by entrepreneurs?
The entrepreneurial mindset is an important part of today's economy and can provide valuable opportunities to those who are willing to take the challenge.

Entrepreneur Bug List

When you go to an internet site and chose to have the products listed by price from low to high and the first few least expensive products are out of stock with no expected ship date.
It is nice to know that these products exist, however, if the product is needed soon, filtering through these items is time consuming.
When tracking items on the USPS website, the items are often delivered before the tracking page shows that they have arrived at my local post office.
Either my local post office has antiquated equipment, or the items are not being properly processed. I am just thankful that I receive delivery.
When you use the drive through to order at a fast food restaurant during non-rush times and it takes longer to get your order than if you went inside and ordered it. I have had this experiences at different restaurants and different locations. Perhaps everyone is taking breaks at the same time and they are temporally understaffed.
When you go to a website and search for something and half of the items presented are not what you are looking for. This has happened on more than one website. Most of the time the items presented are accessories for the item that was searched for. There can be a lot of these items requiring time to sift through them.
My local supercenter started selling bulk mixed nuts by the pound around the first of December. By the week before Christmas all of the pecans and walnuts were gone from all six bins.
People are going to look out for themselves and get the best bang for their buck.
Trying to set up an online account and they tell you the username and password don't match. When you try to rest the password nothing happens. If you try to set up a new account they tell you that hat the account already exists, however, you cannot log on to it.
This is a technical issue and I don't quite understand it myself.
Reality tv shows. Come on, these are tv shows and the only connection to reality that most of these tv shows have is if you are on a tv show.
People driving below the posted speed limit in the left lane on a multiple lane divided highway for no reason.
They must not know the law that says that they are not supposed to do that. They have no idea about what they are doing. They don't care and are inconsiderate.
Illegal marketing calls. especially the ones that leave a message. I have limited space on my answering machine for legitimate calls.
Most of these calls are illegal scams, why should they care.
People that wear too much cologne or perfume.
Apparently they have disposable income and perhaps they like the fragrance and want to share it.
People that I call the "averages", on a two lane highway they drive at 45 mph in the 55 mph area and when they get to town with a 35 mph sped limit, they still drive at 45mph. The 35mph speed limit through town is set for a reason. And so is the 55mph in the country.
They don't pay attention and this must just be a comfortable speed for them to drive.
When you are seated in a restaurant and the waitress/waiter is busy and cannot take the time to acknowledge that you are there and that they will be with you when they can.
People that chew with their mouth open and talk that way while they are chewing.
These people just don't know any better or they are being socially unacceptable.
When people tell you about their bad health conditions and then tell you that they continue to engage in activities that cause those health conditions.
People like this must be ignorant and just don't know.
People that drive through the business lane at the bank drive through that do not have business accounts.
They are in a hurry and want to get served faster and don't pay attention to the signs.
Parents that are to busy shopping to properly supervise their children in a store.
When you have children you should keep track of them at all times.
When someone tells me that I am wrong but cannot tell me why I am wrong.
If I am wrong there should be a reason.
People that use the excuse of old age as the reason for their failures when they are not really old.
I am referring to people in their late middle age aand I would expect them to have Alzheimers long before they reach retirement age.
People that claim to be one thing but are actually the opposite in real life.
These people bug me because they want you to think that they are something that they are not.
People who overspend their means and complain they are broke.
They don't have their priorities in order, they eat out at restaurants and take trips that hey can not afford to take.

It was difficult for me to come up with 20 “bugs” that really bother me and that I have come into contact with. I have had to look into my past experiences to come up with some of these bugs. These days I work and go to school and don't have much of a social life.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Entrepreneur My Entrepreneurship Story

My first experience was pulling a lawnmower behind my bicycle and finding people that wanted me to mow their yard.
Most of the customers that I had were people that did not do their own lawn maintenance and did not want to pay the expense for the professional lawn maintenance service. I thought that some of my customers were demanding for the service expected for the amount that they were paying.
However, it put money in my pocket to be able to engage in my summer activities.

After that, when I was in junior high (middle) school, I took on a paper route to earn some money. The only route that I was able to get was a route for the evincing newspaper in my area. There was a morning newspaper with routes available, however, the routes were large and required a motor vehicle to deliver them. I did not have a drivers license and had to settle for what I could do.
The evening newspaper was not very popular, most people preferred to get their newspaper in the morning.
At one point during the delivery of my newspapers, I was harassed by a neighborhood boy that was also steeling my newspapers that I had to pay for. This situation was resolved, however I was never able to attract enough customers to the route to make it worthwhile.
The newspaper eventually went out of business for lack of subscribers..

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Entrepreneur Introduction



Hello. I grew up in south Florida not extremely far from the beginning of the overseas highway to Key West. I moved to west central Florida and am still trying to get used to the cold.


My major is Business Administration and I am a transfer student with an Associates degree so I am a junior at the University of Florida.

During the course of my life I would like to work at something that I can do and do well and be successful at doing it. As of today, I have been able to become a student at the University of Florida and I have a job that I enjoy.
 
I am by no means a world traveler, however I have been to some interesting places. For extremely short visits I have been to Nice and Cannes in France, along with a short visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As short as these visits were, I still found them to be enjoyable, interesting, and educational.


Entrepreneur's Mantra


This is my first blog and my first blog post. Hope it works out.