30A – Final Reflection

1) While reviewing all of the posts I've created for this class, the most impactful experience I had was finalizing my Idea Napkin No.1 because it was my first actual exercise that required me to sell who I was, what opportunity my company was fulfilling, and why my solution was the most effective. This assignment captured the main elements of brainstorming any type of of start-up business and it helped challenge me in organizing my thoughts and what I intended the service to do. One experience that I know I will remember years later was writing and filming my first elevator pitch, which happened to be my first official elevator pitch ever! Playing back and hearing how well the script flowed and how enthusiastic my speech was really brought me to a new level of happiness. That exercise helped me truly discover the path of business I'm most interested in, being a click-and-mortar type business. My most joyous experience was also the one I'm most of proud of completing in this class and that was finishing my first venture concept. After I completed and went through my finalized venture concept, I realized how much work had been put it and how accomplished I felt when reviewing the final product. I really enjoyed watching all of the work I complete this semester fall in line and ultimately help me create a complete, in-depth summary of my service, BeyondKash. 

2) As the end of the semester approaches, I definitely saw myself develop an entrepreneurial mindset and realized my interest in learning about the entrepreneurial process. After actually learning the steps and knowledge behind creating a product or service, I discovered that I was really interested in learning more and going above and beyond with each assignment. I truly wanted to learn how to do everything correctly, and in the end I saw myself grow and change as a person and into a businessman, who now looks at everything in different perspectives. I hope that I can use the skills obtained in this class and build upon them to ultimately fulfill an open opportunity that I believe in and  have a solution for.

3) One recommendation that I would make to future students about to embark of this journey would be to actually buy-in and challenge yourself by practicing each step of the process to thinking more like an entrepreneur. You can either look at this class as a way to half-ass assignments and give yourself credit, or to take the knowledge and skills the professor is offering, and apply them to a potential opportunity to actually see how things play out. This can not only help show you the basics behind businesses, but actually help you discover your interests and the path of business you want to go down and study. Additionally, I would truly recommend that the student follows the process and tries to understand the reasoning behind each assignment. This is the best way to help the student understand the purpose of this course and ultimately offer them an advantage with putting everything together and summarizing the basic characteristics of thinking like an entrepreneur.