Although I am most certainly not an expert, I have had some
experience with being an entrepreneur myself. In high school my good friend and
I ran a fishing club and the two of us recruited members and raised money in
order to keep the club going. I can kind of think of the club as my own
company, and my friend and I were the co-owners. The product that we were known
for was our shirt. With a big American flag composed of fishing
poles and
bobbers on the back, everyone knew where the shirt was from. We ended up
selling hundreds of shirts to students and family and before we knew it, we couldn’t
walk to our next class without seeing our white long sleeve shirts on people we
didn’t even know. Although this seems like a weird thing to tie into
entrepreneurship, the comparisons were clear. We came up with a revolutionary
idea to sell our brand. We wanted people to know about our club, and in doing
so we chose to develop a product that people would be able to know us by. It
took a lot of work to create shirts that people would want to wear, and that
would be able to get our name out there.
This process taught me a lot of what an entrepreneur has to
do on a day to day because there are so many things that go into the process
that are not recognized. I wanted to take this class to learn more about the
process of being an entrepreneur because I found the whole process very
rewarding and would consider doing it for a living if I found I had a lot of
interest in it. I hope to gain some knowledge about the process, and what kind
of people end up being entrepreneurs.
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