30 A Final Reflection

Some of the highs in this class include discovering more about myself and my best skills that I have while also identifying some things I need to improve such as my tone of voice and deliverability during an elevator pitch. I also had an enjoyable experience while creating my ideal customer avatar that really allowed me to think deeply about who I was going to market my service for. Lastly, the exercise that made us test our hypothesis was very helpful in that it helped identify flaws within my business plan. I most dreaded writing up the big post for my venture concept and also did not like having to do the elevator pitch 3 separate times.

The most formative or enriching experience that I had in this course was during the Growing your Social capital assignment that required students to conduct interviews with the intent of finding meaningful connections that could help the business idea. I was able to meet a restaurant manager in this process that gave me valuable information for starting my venture.

I would definitely consider myself to be more of an entrepreneur now than I was at the start of the semester. I have been through many interviews and self evaluations that have given me a better understanding of how to successfully take risks as well as own and operate a venture.

The best way to have success in this course is to really think outside of the box when developing that first venture concept to ensure that it is applicable for the assignments in the future. I know several kids who had to change their business idea completely because it was not applicable for later assignments. Also, It is essential to do the assignments before the last day because of the early 12pm deadlines in this course.