Final Reflection

1. After looking back through my blog in the past semester, I can definitely see the progress I've made in my business venture and my understanding of entrepreneurship. At the beginning of this class, I was very nervous and wasn't sure of myself in the field of business and entrepreneurship. Now looking back on my assignments, I had to struggle with new and uncomfortable situations such as interviewing customers, entrepreneurs, and experts in my field. It was fun learning about myself with assignments such as my unfair advantage and growing my social capital. 
2. My most formative experience was my last Venture Concept because it really showed me all the moving pieces in a starting business. I put a lot of effort into it, and I believe I got a lot out of it learning the challenging process. I think just the consistent interviewing of strangers will definitely stick with me when I look back on the class. The most joyous experience was finding up my secret sauce and the things that were unique to me. It was a cool reflective assignment and it showed me my potential. The experience I'm most proud of accomplishing was interviewing the local entrepreneur because I really wanted to learn about how local successes and how they transpired. 
3. In the beginning of the class, when you challenged us to become an entrepreneur, I will be honest and say that I doubted that was going to happen. But looking back on the class, I definitely see how I have developed an entrepreneur's mindset. Just from all the assignments we've done, I've learned about the steps it takes to become an entrepreneur. Without this class, I would have never known how to identify the opportunity, contact people in my network, and how to turn my idea into a real business. So now, although I wouldn't necessarily call myself an entrepreneur, I definitely think I have the mindset of an entrepreneur. 
4. If I had to give one piece of advice to students in the future for this class, I would recommend taking this class as seriously as possible. This is one of those classes where the amount of knowledge you learn is based around the effort you put in. Thus, to perform the best, you must stay on top of all the assignments and take all the assignments as serious as possible. If you do these things, you will succeed and learn a lot. To foster this mindset, I would tell them that they need to "buy into" this class, as I will tell them the benefits and how the class will help them. I will try to convince them that the process of this class is for a purpose and that you will foster this mindset if you go through the process properly.