30A- Final Reflection

1) The most memorable experience from this semester were the elevator pitch videos. A lot of times it's easier to write something online versus posting a video of yourself. Making the elevator pitch videos really brought me out of my comfort zone but that's exactly why I'm also proud of them even when they didn't turn out the way I wanted. It was a learning experience and even though we had other assignments that had us flesh out our concepts I felt that the elevator pitches brought them together in a way.

2)At this moment in time I still don't see myself as an entrepreneur. However, I think I have definitely gotten closer to developing an entrepreneurial mindset throughout the semester. I have also absolutely learned an array of tools that'll help me develop a concept once I feel more comfortable with seeing myself as an entrepreneur.

3) One recommendation I would give to future students is that they watch the weekly lectures instead of trying to cheat in order to pass the cupcakes and in order for them to develop an entrepreneurial mindset they need to take ownership of their ideas that they decide to explore.

29A- Venture Concept No. 2

Opportunity: Every year thousands of people undergo oral surgery. It can be for something as minor as having their wisdom teeth removed or for something more serious that could result in getting dentures which could have been caused by dental caries, poor dental hygiene, or even cancer. As part as their post-surgery care, these patients usually get put on a soft-food diet for anywhere between a day to several weeks afterward depending on the seriousness of the surgery. For those that only have to be on a soft-food diet for a day or two, it may not be that bad of an experience since they can probably get away with eating ice cream and jello for the duration of those two days. However, for those that have to be on a soft food diet for much longer than that, it is not nutritionally feasible. For these people, they have to undergo the healing process for much longer and sometimes they don't have additional support in the form of a spouse or kids or some other relative or friend. These people, apart from working, have to come up with nutritious meals that are soft enough to eat all while in pain. This opportunity will continue to exist as long as people keep getting oral surgery. Demographically, this opportunity would probably be targeted to lower income to moderate- income households since one reason for oral surgery is due to poor oral hygiene and that can be a consequence of not going to the dentist until its too late. This tends to happen to those with no insurance or insurance that doesn't cover their needs.

Innovation: My food service is called Simple Delights and the menu would be made up entirely of soft foods. This menu would be accessible online and a paper copy would be available at dental offices. All the customer would have to do is call the number to place the order or order online. My service only provides lunch and dinner with orders being placed anytime between 9AM and 5PM with business hours extending till 7PM in order to provide time for delivery or pickup. Each meal would include an entrée, one or two sides, and desert with drinks being optional for a charge of $1. Most meals are typically between $10-$15 and for that reason each meal at Simple Delights will be $13 (for one side), $15 (for two sides) or $25 (regardless of number of sides) if they order for both lunch and dinner. An additional charge of $3.99 will be added if the customer wishes to have the meal delivered to their home.

Venture Concept: Most people don't follow a soft-food based diet unless it follows oral surgery. For that reason, these people often times don't know which foods to prepare in order to get a nutritious meal. Most people would hear about Simple Delights from their dental office and or oral surgery location (here in Arkansas there are several locations throughout major cities that are under Dental Denture Solutions) and switching to my food service would not be hard since it would be similar to trying a new restaurant. My competitors would be anyplace that serves any kind of soft food, be it soup, jello, mashed potatoes, etc. The only weakness in that is that they would not have a full menu and often times would have a handful of options. At this point, my pricing is based on the average cost of a meal which as stated above, generally ranges from $10-$15. At the beginning I would not have any employees helping me cook. I would start my business at home with maybe the help of my sisters. This would save me start up costs. The only employee would be a delivery driver and if that is unfeasible, then I would try to get a friend or relative to do deliveries.

1. My most important resource would probably be my hard work ethic. Since I won't hire any outside help (at least in the beginning) the brunt of the work would fall on me. If I would like to see my venture succeed then I would have to make sure to work extra hard.

2. What's next for my venture: probably expanding my target market. I would eventually like to include others that are not necessarily on a soft-food diet. One of my main meals would be soups and that could be appealing to someone who is sick or someone who want a hot meal in the winter. I would also eventually expand my business hours to begin at 6AM to include breakfast. For a lot of people this is the most important meal of the day. This would be implemented after surveys dictated what the most popular breakfast food options are.

3. Assuming I launched I would like to see my venture expand throughout the state and neighboring states after the first five years. After ten years, I would like my venture to expand nationwide. With this, I would be able to cater to wider selection of people and would perhaps also increase some of the menu items. The first venture would help me achieve this because every business needs to start somewhere.


II. A lot of the feedback was mostly positive though I did receive some constructive criticism concerning my social capital. They suggested that I partner with more dentists in the area so that they could recommend my business to their patients. As far as the breakfast menu, the main feedback I received was to distribute surveys before implementing it to get an idea of what they customer wants.

III. The way I changed my venture concept was to add more dental offices to (hopefully) increase my market. Then in the what's next part of the assignment I added the extended business hours to include breakfast.


                         

28A - Your Exit Strategy

1) My exit strategy would depend on multiple factors, but assuming my venture is successful and that it sees moderate growth throughout the years, I would keep it running as long as I could and eventually retire with the proceeds. After that I would either hand the company to my kids or sell it.

2) I wrote that I would either hand the company over to my kids or sell it because that would depend on whether my kids wanted the company. I would never want to force anyone into a business that they were not interested in, so if they didn't want I would sell to someone that could appreciate it. Either way, I would run it for as long as I could before retiring.

3) If I'm being honest, I hadn't factored an exit strategy into any of my decisions for my concept. But even if I had considered it beforehand, I don't think any of my decisions would've been different. Because there is a chance that it could be passed down, I would still try to make it as successful as possible. Not to mention that it would eventually become my livelihood, so it would be in my best interest to make it as successful as possible.

27A - Reading Reflection No. 3

1) The general theme of How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big is that failure is a crucial step to success. In fact, the more you fail the better for it can improve your chances of ultimately succeeding in your endeavors, and it can be a tool for increasing personal energy.

2) This book is all about how failure can lead to success. That is a subject that has been covered in our assignments (especially Assignment 26). Just like the title of the assignment, this book is all about celebrating failure and the lessons that can be learned from failure. Adams also talked about how he took what he learned from his failures and applied it to future endeavors.

3) Adams developed a wide range of skills from all the different kinds of business ventures he pursued. He went from designing some computer games to opening two restaurants to eventually becoming a famous cartoonist. Every venture taught him something new. Apart from learning from his failures, he also gained technical skills. Saying that, the exercise I would design would be try a new 'hobby'. Libraries usually hold an array of activities that can include knitting, drawing, etc. There are usually all kinds of clubs on a college campus as well. The purpose of this exercise would be to learn a new skill, whether artistic, technical, or something else, and then write a reflection of the experience.

4) The biggest surprise for me was reading that passion does not guarantee success. Adams said that this is a common misconception. Most high-achieving people in their fields will usually cite 'passion' as one of the reasons for getting where they are. However, Adams says that success tends to induce passion, but passion does not necessarily equal success. Instead the more you succeed at something, the more passionate you feel for the endeavor. I have to say that I was also under the misconception thinking that passion can lead to success, but the way he presented passion was eye-opening.

26A - Celebrating Failure

1) This past semester I struggled with completing the assignments with my original problem. For the sake of the assignments, it was just too broad and ambitious and not feasible (at least for me). While its a subject I care about, I just didn't know enough about to pitch a plan to target a specific part of the problem. For a while I continued doing the assignments, but I could see the quality of my work decreasing and I'm don't think I ever fully recovered from that. Another bad habit of mine that often times leads to failure is procrastination. I let myself leave assignments until the last moment and even though most of the time I'm able to turn in the assignments on time, they're not as good as far as quality.

2) Shortly after I realized that I was really struggling with the assignments, I emailed Dr. Pryor asking if I could change my idea and he responded saying I could. In that email I wrote that I didn't dedicate the time, thought, or effort that I should've into each of the assignments and that is why I found myself struggling halfway through the semester. I learned that you cannot do things halfway, and there are consequences if you do (In this case that would be my final grade). After this, I strove to dedicate enough time to finish the assignments.

3) Failure is a learning process. The hardest thing about failure is getting back up. Just like you can't know true happiness without experiencing sadness, I think you can't know true success without failure. Someone once told me that if you're experiencing failure you have to trace the problem to the root of the cause if you want to a permanent solution instead of a temporary fix. Essentially, you need to look at the big picture. While I say this, I struggle with applying this to myself. When I experience failure, I feel embarrassment and I feel like an idiot because most of the time when I fail it's due to my own shortcomings. Afterwards, I usually let myself wallow in self-pity for a bit before letting myself try again. This class has made me a bit more open to taking risk. I know that a lot of times people say that the things they regret the most are the actions that they didn't take. Of course saying it and thinking it are different from actually doing it. I just hope that when the opportunities present themselves that I'll be able to follow through.

25A What's Next

 Existing Market:

Step 1: What's next is that would have to find other ways of advertisement than just through a dentist office in order to reach a wider margin of people.

Step2: After interviewing my three customers they suggested that I consider offering breakfast options. They also recommended that I eventually get an app in order to facilitate the ordering process.

Step3: Originally my venture is set to be a lunch and dinner food service. Due to the feedback I received I'm considering eventually including a breakfast menu. Of course that would not happen until I could afford additional staffing, that way I won't overdo it. A lot of food businesses have apps in order to decrease wait time and to make the ordering process easier, so that is also something that I'll look further into.

I do think that these suggestions will be applicable to my venture, though it won't be able to be implemented immediately.

New Market:

Step 1: Since my venture targets those who have recently had oral surgery that makes my market consist of either older people or late teens to young adults. But since it'll cater to those that need my product for a longer span of time, it appeals to the older people more. So I'll be targeting the young adult market.

Step 2: In order to try to appeal to this new market, I would add to my menu sweeter smoothies and shakes.

Step3: After interviewing the customer's in this new market they suggested I add a few solid food items so that they could get a meal with the smoothie or shake that wasn't a soft-food item. They also suggested that I increase the variety of ice cream I had available for the shakes.

Step 4: I had a feeling that a soft-food based service would not be really attractive to someone who 's doctor didn't tell them to be on that diet. Even so, I was still a little surprised when they suggested to add a couple solid food items like sandwiches. What they suggested sounded a lot like Tropical Smoothie that I don't think I should take their advice.

I knew that this second market would not be as attractive as my original market. While they are still part of my demographics, young adults are in the minority. And even though I don't think I'll be adding sandwiches to my menu anytime soon, I do think I will add more ice cream flavors and a wider selection of smoothies. In the end, their feedback was still much appreciated.

24A Venture Concept No. 1

Opportunity: Every year thousands of people undergo oral surgery. It can be for something as minor as having their wisdom teeth removed or for something more serious that could result in getting dentures which could have been caused by dental caries, poor dental hygiene, or even cancer. As part as their post-surgery care, these patients usually get put on a soft-food diet for anywhere between a day to several weeks afterward depending on the seriousness of the surgery. For those that only have to be on a soft-food diet for a day or two, it may not be that bad of an experience since they can probably get away with eating ice cream and jello for the duration of those two days. However, for those that have to be on a soft food diet for much longer than that, it is not nutritionally feasible. For these people, they have to undergo the healing process for much longer and sometimes they don't have additional support in the form of a spouse or kids or some other relative or friend. These people, apart from working, have to come up with nutritious meals that are soft enough to eat all while in pain. This opportunity will continue to exist as long as people keep getting oral surgery. Demographically, this opportunity would probably be targeted to lower income to moderate- income households since one reason for oral surgery is due to poor oral hygiene and that can be a consequence of not going to the dentist until its too late. This tends to happen to those with no insurance or insurance that doesn't cover their needs.

Innovation: My food service is called Simple Delights and the menu would be made up entirely of soft foods. This menu would be accessible online and a paper copy would be available at select dental offices. All the customer would have to do is call the number to place the order or order online. My service only provides lunch and dinner with orders being placed anytime between 9AM and 5PM with business hours extending till 7PM in order to provide time for delivery or pickup. Each meal would include an entrée, one or two sides, and desert with drinks being optional for a charge of $1. Most meals are typically between $10-$15 and for that reason each meal at Simple Delights will be $13 (for one side), $15 (for two sides) or $25 (regardless of number of sides) if they order for both lunch and dinner. An additional charge of $3.99 will be added if the customer wishes to have the meal delivered to their home.

Venture Concept: Most people don't follow a soft-food based diet unless its following oral surgery. For that reason, these people often times don't know which foods to prepare in order to get a nutritious meal. Most people would hear about Simple Delights from their dental office and switching to my food service would not be hard since it would be similar to trying a new restaurant. My competitors would be anyplace that serves any kind of soft food, be it soup, jello, mashed potatoes, etc. The only weakness in that is that they would not have a full menu and often times would have a handful of options. At this point, my pricing is based on the average cost of a meal which as stated above, generally ranges from $10-$15. At the beginning I would not have any employees helping me cook. I would start my business at home with maybe the help of my sisters. This would save me start up costs. The only employee would be a delivery driver and if that is unfeasible, then I would try to get a friend or relative to do deliveries.

1. My most important resource would probably be my hard work ethic. Since I won't hire any outside help (at least in the beginning) the brunt of the work would fall on me. If I would like to see my venture succeed then I would have to make sure to work extra hard.

2. What's next for my venture: probably expanding my target market. I would eventually like to include others that are not necessarily on a soft-food diet. One of my main meals would be soups and that could be appealing to someone who is sick or someone who want a hot meal in the winter.

3. Assuming I launched I would like to see my venture expand throughout the state and neighboring states after the first five years. After ten years, I would like my venture to expand nationwide. With this, I would be able to cater to wider selection of people and would perhaps also increase some of the menu items. The first venture would help me achieve this because every business needs to start somewhere.

23A - Your Venture's Unfair Advantage

1.  Social Capital: access to Dr. Thompson's surgical patients. They would be referred to me for post-surgery meals.

• Valuable: Yes, my target market are those who've recently undergone oral surgery and having Dr. Thompson as a contact to refer some of his patients to me would help my business out tremendously in the beginning.
• Rare: Not necessarily, anyone with the same idea could try getting customers from other dentist offices.
• Inimitable: No, because personal relationships are unique to each person.
• Non-substitutable: Yes

2. Human Capital: I am a Business Administration Major, so the knowledge and experience would help me manage by future venture.

• Valuable: Yes, an education is always a valuable asset
• Rare: Not exactly, since almost anyone can pursue an education
• Inimitable: No, because how someone decides to apply the education they received is unique to each individual.
• Non-substitutable: The skills learned from education cannot be substituted

3. Leadership Experience: I have been a manager in my company for the past three years.

• Valuable: Yes, if I ever decided to expand, leadership experience would come in handy when hiring new people.
• Rare: No, there are plenty of people in leadership positions in all kinds of fields.
• Inimitable: No, not everyone can be a good leader and more than that each leader creates their own work culture.
• Non-substitutable: A good leader would be hard to substitute in any situation.

4. Cooking Skills: I like to cook and bake in my spare time.

• Valuable: For my venture this is extremely valuable since I would be making food for other people and when ordering food from anyplace people expect it to taste good.
• Rare: A lot of people can make good food, but not everyone can make great food.
• Inimitable: Only if the cook decides to share their recipe.
• Non-substitutable: Certain dishes are hard to recreate without prior knowledge of recipes and ingredients.

5. Personal Experience: Knowledge of food safety and regulations.

• Valuable: Yes, I don't work directly with food at my work but I work in the Fresh Food Department. Due to this I know a lot of the federal guidelines for food safety such as cold food having to remain below 41 degrees and hot food having to remain above 140 degrees after being cooked.
• Rare: Anyone who works with food in a professional setting should be aware of these regulations.
• Inimitable: Since it deals with regulations, the point is that they are followed in order to ensure that people are served the freshest food possible.
• Non-substitutable: There are no substitutions for food regulations unless you make them even stricter or you risk making someone sick

6. Social Capital: My contact with Ms. Martin who is a third-party delivery driver for the company I work at.

• Valuable: To me she is an important contact since her delivery services would be necessary if someone needed their meals delivered to their home.
• Rare: There are a number of food delivery services and though there are other options, it is not a saturated market.
• Inimitable: Again, personal relationships are hard to recreate and the rapport one builds with another person is hard to imitate.
• Non-substitutable: Again a personal relationship cannot be substituted.

7. I personally know people who've had oral surgery.

• Valuable: Yes, this gave me insight into my target market.
• Rare: No, people in the United States tend to have oral surgery at least once sometimes more than that during their lifetime either to have their wisdom teeth taken out or to get dentures.
• Inimitable: The experiences recounted to me are unique to each individual and cannot be imitated.
• Non-substitutable: Their experience cannot be substituted.

8.  Attention to detail.

• Valuable: Yes, not everyone takes the extra time to go above and beyond.
• Rare: It can be.
• Inimitable: It's an attribute that's hard to imitate.
• Non-substitutable: Yes.

9. Hard-worker

• Valuable: Always, hard work eventually pays off.
• Rare: Yes and No, there are plenty of good hard workers but it's harder to put in extra work without an incentive.
• Inimitable: Hard work cannot easily be imitated.
• Non-substitutable: Yes

10. Not having a competitive market

• Valuable: Yes, the less competition the less you have to worry about competing for customers.
• Rare: There are plenty of restaurants that deliver food to people in their work places and at home but not another company that seeks to cater to those that are on a soft-food diet (at least in my area).
• Inimitable: Since a company like mine doesn't exist in my area, it cannot be immediately imitated.
• Non-substitutable: Other restaurants offer a couple options for those seeking a soft-food diet but they don't offer a full menu which is something I would do.

After conducting the VRIN analysis, my top resource would have to be my hard work ethic. Without it, even if I had the best people working alongside and for me, I would not be able to make my venture succeed. Like I said in the VRIN analysis, hard- work eventually pays off, you just have to put in the effort in the beginning.

22A- Elevator Pitch No.3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-nr-B6J_gI&feature=youtu.be

2. The most helpful feedback I got last time was that my sound had static. I made sure this time, that that wasn't the case. The rest of the feedback I got included them saying that I kept good eye contact and that I was easy to understand and I hope that is still the case this time.

3. This was a different pitch altogether so I don't have a previous video to improve upon my and that in itself made me incredibly nervous. I did try to include as much detail as possible and I think I didn't forget anything.

21A-Reading Reflection No.2

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

1. The book is a living biography that focuses on the life of Elon Musk from his childhood up to his ascension in the business world.

2. Musk didn't just jump in with his first idea, he spent months studying the aerospace industry and the physics behind it before presenting his conclusions. This is how he figured out that rockets could be made cheaper than the Russians were offering and this is how Musk would get people to think about exploring space again. Similarly, with our last assignment, we had to expand our social capital and I think this goes hand in hand with what Musk did. By learning more about the industry, Musk was able to broaden his original idea.

3. If I had to design an exercise for the class based on what I've read it would be to build a model of our product. Sometimes you don't realize how impractical something is until you try to do a sample of the actual product. Or, you'll see your creation and see the areas that need the most work. It wouldn't have to be something big, but if your idea included an app, for this exercise you could look into what would go into creating a new app. If your idea included food or something physical, you could look into making a tangible item.

4. I knew before reading the book that Musk was a brilliant man and a successful businessman, however I did not expect the part of the book where it said that Musk ran out of money at the end of 2008, or that he depended on friends for a while to make payroll from week to week while he negotiated with investors. His tenacity is also surprising. Not a lot of people would've been able to resurface after a setback like that.

20A Growing Your Social Capital

Domain Expert:
1. Juan Robles, he is a cook for the Capital Hotel in downtown Little Rock.
3. I met him by chance on one of my translations jobs. While we were waiting to help others, he told me about his day job and how he loves to cook.
4. He told me that he's always looking to try new recipes and is up for a new challenge.
5. He would be an asset to my new business idea, for several reasons: one he knows how to optimally prep food in order to cook it in a short amount of time and my goal is to deliver within 45 minutes. Two, since he cooks for people everyday, he would know best how to season a dish so that the majority of people will be pleased.

Market Expert:
1. Wendell Thompson, he is a dentist in Little Rock.
2. I met him several years ago when we first started to go to church together.
4. He was helpful in determining the kinds of foods most people are able to enjoy after oral surgery and giving suggestions in others that I hadn't thought about.
5. Since my product would target those that would be sensitive to solid food, knowing a dentist and their network would be beneficial in aquiring a clientele pool.

Supplier Expert:
1. Sara Martin, she is a driver/deliverer for online groceries.
3. I met her at my job when I had to help dispense orders and I gave one to her for a home delivery instead of a pickup.
3. She was really nice and informative about how the home delivery system works and the distance from the store that she usually travels.
4. I am considering delivery my homemade meals to people directly to their homes and if that was the case I would need access to a third-party delivery service unless I was able to do it myself and she would be a good initial contact.

All these people were people that I already knew, however this exercise made me realize that someone I met by mere coincidence turned out to be someone who could be extremely beneficial for my service and made me realize that we're always networking, whether we acknowledge it in the moment or not. Due to this exercise, I will be more conscience about how someone will affect my network and be more considerate to those that I would not have previously considered important to my network,.

19A Idea Napkin No. 2

1.  My name is Katia Bautista and I'm a Business Administration major. I love to cook, and I've always enjoyed watching my mother and sisters cook as well while learning from them. I know that oral surgery can be tough on others and being restricted on a soft food diet can be difficult. However, I believe others will enjoy my food especially since it'll include some traditional spanish foods that will be easy to eat.

2. I am offering homemade soft food meals for those that are sensitive to solid foods. My service will include more than just mashed potatoes and soups and will offer a variety of desserts including jello, pudding, and arroz con leche. It will have a variety of options for lunch and dinner and will only be $15/day.

3. My service is targeted for people that have just undergone oral surgery, whether it was having their wisdom teeth removed or needing to get dentures. For this reason, either my customers will be older or a young adult.

4. Customers that are just getting their wisdom teeth taken out may not care as much since their recovery time is a lot faster than those getting dentures. The older customers, however, will enjoy this service because they won't have to come up with creative meals to enjoy on a daily basis. Especially since up to this point these people have probably eaten solid food everyday, my service will take care of the uncertainty of scrambling to whip something up that they are able to eat while providing a full meal.

5. I saw the process that some of my family members went through while readjusting and I just want to make that readjustment period easier for other people so they can focus on healing instead of what they can eat.

I changed my original business idea, not because I no longer believed in it, but because I want to explore a different idea. Because of that, it's difficult to apply the feedback I received last time to this post, but some feedback I received was how it was nice to have a niche target audience and I hope I kept the same sentiment with this idea. Compared to my last attempt I believe that the elements go together a bit better this time around.

18A Create a Customer Avatar

My customers would be your average working adult that had just obtained some dentures and are on a soft food diet. The only thing they all would have in common is that they never had to think about whole meals containing only soft foods. Since they and their spouse  probably have full time jobs, they don't have a lot of time to come up with creative  and filling meals which is why they utilize my service. They need a warm meal ready for them for when they get off a long day at work and just want to go home and relax by either reading a book or watching tv. And since they are still in some pain (at least the first couple of days) they don't want to do more than they have to. Since they needed to get dentures and these days a lot of people have moderately good dental benefits, most of my customers will be 50+ years old. That means that their kids are probably grown and moved to another state and they live by themselves, maybe with their spouse if they have one. While my customer's could have family members that would help them out, my service would appeal more to those that don't have any immediate family in the area.

What I have in common with these customers is that any one of them could have been a family member. They could have been my mom or dad, grandmother or grandfather, and so on and so on. Speaking from previous experience, I felt utterly useless when my family member had to get dentures and they were in pain. The first three days they hardly ate and when they finally did, they complained about the bland food or how it wasn't filling them up but they couldn't stand the pain in order to keep eating. As far as it being a coincidence that my customer has something in common with me, it's not. I remembered what it was like for my family member and based it off of them.

14A Halfway Reflection

1) In order to keep up with this course, you need to be able to set time apart each week in order to complete the assignment. In other words you need to be self-disciplined and proactive.

2) If I'm telling the truth, there have been several moments when I've felt like 'giving up' both in life and in this course. I usually get that dreaded feeling of 'giving up' when I feel overwhelmed and I just want to hit the restart button and just wipe the slate clean. But then, I get a moment when I'm able to reflect on what's happening and I push myself to keep going by telling myself that my goal is just within reach and if I keep going I can achieve it faster. Also giving up gets you nowhere, and you end up losing more than just your credits. You lose all the time you invested in the class and you have nothing to show for what you actually did. Having a tenacious attitude is something that I have to work on every day and sometimes the only thing that keeps me from giving up is knowing that someone else is able to do the exact same assignments and remembering something that my mom has always said "If someone else can do it, so can I". She said this when she was raising my brother and sister and I as a single mother. There were several times when she thought she couldn't raise us by herself but then she would see another single mom with four kids and she would think, "If she can handle four then I can definitely handle three". From this I draw the same mindset: if someone can do school, work full time and still be a good parent to their kids, then I definitely don't have room to complain when I only have school and a full time job.

3) The first tip I would offer is to keep yourself as organized as possible. You can do this with a planner. I personally like that mine says 'Chaos Coordinator' because most of the time it really does feel like that's what it's doing. This will also help keep you from forgetting to do any assignments. The Second is to not procrastinate: this will ensure you have plenty of time to complete all assignments to the best of your abilities. The Third, is to really pay attention to everything Dr. Pryor says. This'll help develop a tenacious mind which is something you'll need as an entrepreneur. It's very likely that you won't succeed the first time you try to set up your own business, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to learn in that failure. What really show's a tenacious attitude is being able to pick yourself up and try again.

13A Reading Reflection No. 1

1) You read about an Entrepreneur:

• The first time I heard about the Wright brothers (which was several years ago before I even learned about WWI) and I learned that they flew the world's first successful airplane I was surprised by the year they were able to accomplish such a feat. In my head, up till that point, I had thought that all this took place in the fifties. Imagine my surprise when I realized they accomplished this in 1903.
• What I most admire from the Wright brothers is their fearlessness. They knew they were risking their lives every time they tested their contraptions, yet they did it anyway over and over again.
• What I least admire is how hypercritical they were, of each other and of others. I understand that sometimes criticism can lead to growth but too much of one thing can be counterproductive.
• The Wright brothers encountered adversity and failure time and time again. Each time they would pick themselves up (sometimes literally) and try again.

2) What competencies did you notice that the Entrepreneur exhibit?

The first and obvious one is that the Wright brothers were hard workers. They obviously also had vision and great observational skills which came in handy when they observed the way birds angled themselves in flight. But apart from that, the Wright brothers also had a mechanical background. For years, before attempting flight, they worked on bikes. But I would say that their biggest competency is that they never stopped learning. 

3) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you?

The lawsuits surrounding the patents. I just got lost and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.

4) If you were able to ask two questions to the entrepreneur, what would you ask? Why?

• The first thing I would ask is how did your personal experiences impact your decisions when it came to your projects? I would ask this because I believe that experiences mold people in different ways and is what causes them to make certain decisions they wouldn't have before the experience.
• What did you feel the first time that your airplane successfully stayed in the air? I know that they must've felt exhilarated the first time they successfully flew but I want to know what they felt immediately after. Where they disappointed that they no longer had something to perfect? Did they immediately start thinking about the next thing they should move onto? Or did they feel contentment and think they could finally rest?

5) For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?

Based on the book, I would say the brothers thought hard work was something everyone should engage in six of the seven days of the week. The book even says at one point that the brothers were almost always doing something and it was a rare occurrence when they did nothing. For them "hard work was a conviction, and they were at their best and happiest working together on their own projects..." 

I agree with their opinion though I will admit that I find it hard to work enjoy work everyday, although I attribute that to me not finding 'THE' perfect job. I once had an art teacher who said that she got paid to play and have fun and that the best job is the one that doesn't feel like you're working even though you are. I hope to find that one day, to find a job that enjoy so much that I don't feel like I'm working.

11A Idea Napkin No.1

1) Hi, my name is Katia Bautista and this is my first year at UF. I am a Business Administration major. I aspire to be able to make changes in my community and continue or add on to the great work that other wonderful people have already started in making Little Rock a more eco-friendly city. This would, of course have me acknowledge the aspects of my life where I can reduce my carbon footprint.

2) With this type of service it may be easier to partner with an existing organization so that we could pull our resources together. In this case I would reach out to iMatter Youth Movement which has members all over the country and just bring some of their base models to Arkansas.

3) In this case I would start by offering this to other students through the Mayor's Youth Council (which is a volunteer organization that I am a member of). I do believe that our youth has to be better educated on the effects of climate change so that they can start making more conscience decisions on the aspects of their life that have a lingering effect on their personal greenhouse gas emissions.

4) They would care because this is not an issue that affects only one person or a specific group of persons, but it affects everyone. If they're not feeling those effects right now, then they will at some point in their future. The severity of those effects depend on the steps we take now in order to reduce the worst of it.

5) What makes this different is that by partnering with iMatter Youth Movement, I would be able to take something that I know works (because it was successful in their city) and tweak it in order to make it meet the needs of my city. I could focus on the aspects that Little Rock hasn't already addressed. Arkansas is called the "Natural State" and  "Keep Arkansas Beautiful" is something a lot of people take seriously, and the way to do that is to make Arkansas greener, by implementing more eco-friendly solutions to our everyday life.

While I have an idea of where I want to start, I know that I need to flesh out exactly where I want to focus a green initiative idea here in Arkansas. I know the group of people I want to work with, but as far as do I want to focus on more on a program that will make accessing energy efficient equipment more affordable or do I want to focus more on awareness. I think once I decide that, everything else will become a little easier.

10A Elevator Pitch No. 1

https://youtu.be/QeH2PZtESHY

9A Testing the Hypothesis Part 2

Who: After I conducted the last five interviews I learned that most everyone agreed that climate change was an issue and that it needed to be addressed (at different levels of urgency for each). I also learned that for some of them, though they said they would change given the opportunity and resources to switch over to a renewable source of energy, the switch would be a struggle in the beginning.

What: The first need is to figure out a way to lower our greenhouse gas emissions.

Why: This need is for everyone, since we all share the same planet. What we do doesn't just affect us, it affects others as well. However, there are some who don't believe in climate change, some who think it can wait to be addressed, and others who think it requires immediate action. Some of the basic questions are the same for all, for example, how much would it cost to switch over to a renewable source of energy? How available is it for the masses? Why should I even invest in it in the first place?, and Why do I need to make changes in my life? After all my carbon footprint is not that much. In the end, the reason we need to take action is to avoid seeing all the possible consequences of inaction. It's too late to reverse our current emissions, so we've started to see and are going to see more consequences of all the greenhouse gasses we've put in our atmosphere. Right now we're experiencing warmer temperatures and melting icebergs and glaciers that are causing rising sea levels, but we know that this problem can multiply many times over.

	Inside The Boundary	Outside The Boundary
Who	·      Those who are aware that climate change is an issue ·      Everyone on Earth	·      Those who don’t believe Climate Change is Real
What	·      Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions ·      Find Alternative sources of energy	·      Reversing Climate change
Why	·      Switch over renewable sources of energy ·      Plant a garden ·      Cut down on amount of meat consumed (especially beef)	·      Cleaning up the ocean ·      Building Flood Resistant structures