Week 15 Reading Reflection

 Reading this article was very some what inspiring. Coming from a political background I feel that I  have a clear understanding on what culture and business does for each other. Therefor being said I do believe the point that the author makes about coexisting (this was what I understood). Culture is deep rooted in many of the successes that had been inquired through out business. I do not disagree with anything the author said, but I was more amazed and inspired by the stories that were provided. These stories were shocking to me because I was never fully aware of the. If I had to ask any questions to the author I would ask him about his opinion on what he wrote and if he has had any personal effect to this.

Final reflection

 My experience as an entrepreneur has been one to remember. By far, this has been the only class that has tested me mentally in my character to approach real world scenarios. I will eternally remember the awkward videos recordings, missing points because I couldn’t load a video, but most importantly the creative light that I have now added to my skill set.

2)         The most formative experience that I have had and I will remember for the later years has definitely been the women entrepreneurship synopsis. I think that at that poin tin the class was when I really started to embrace my potential and feel as an entrepreneur. It made my experiences during assignments so much more rounded. It was probably also my most joyous experience considering the fact that I met the famous professor Pryor!

            Next, the most proud moment that I have had during the course has one hundred percent been when I realized that I wanted to actually create my own nonprofit/ initiative whatever. It added value to my experience in the class and made me feel that I found myself in a way.. This is something that I cannot say for many classes in UF.

3)         At the end of the semester I have been able to build a guiding mindset. It was more than grading exams of reading a passage. I see myself as an entrepreneur now because I have learned to apply my mindset to my goals. Thank you Dr. Pryor for this.

4) The one recommendation I would make to students is to be on top of your assignment it will catch you by surprise in exam week. This being said, I would say it will enhance your experience in the class and will allow you to put your 100 percent attention in to the class, meaning grade wise and building that essential mindset.

Elevator Pitch 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLsEMnDpQw

 ^^ This is my elevator pitch. What I did on this pitch is take a complete different approach. I went to a completely new venture concept. Doing so I believe was the most influential thing being that a lot of my feed back was confused student because I did not succeed in explaining the concept well. This was not the case this time. Also this was important to me on my last pitches to improve on because I do agree with my previous feedback. Ultimately, this is what I changed.

Venture Concept no.2

 To me, the most important thing in the world, and quality that humans are able to possess is the virtue of empowerment. Through a good book,  everyone can possibly  learn how to feel more control for their lives. Reading is not exclusive, but it is universal. If learning through reading can stimulate different  avenues of your mind why can it not stimulate change. You see, as a political science student I have learned that our normal everyday as westerners, capitalists, and most of all dreamers is facilitated and enabled through creativity. Therefore if we, humans are able to be increasingly creative through all of the different stories and concepts we read in our lives whether it be in science, history or language arts. That is why I have found a huge unmet need in foreign developing countries.   The general population has not progressed due to the fact that the citizens are not in control of what and who they are. There is this constant fixed idea in countries that you are to follow an not to lead, to be and not to choose to be, and that is why I want to change this structure for the better. Through learning to read, and to choose what you would like to read  generations will feel empowered in knowing how to form an argument, how to critically think and eventually be critically intelligent.  I present to you reading leaders.
         Reading believers will be ideally an international initiative to solve the issue of empowerment and overall for the generations of developing countries to be intellectually empowered. The goal is to make a difference in socioeconomic classes and merge generations, ethnicity and people everywhere as one. To me, the nature of the need is to not only merge people together but to enhance the mindset of generations and hopefully impact the way they see opportunity, strength, tradition and more.
         Moreover, I would like to highlight that the forces in the world creating this issue are governmental intermediaries that have different perspectives on what something, someone is or has to be, in the demographic market of developing worlds. Currently, competitors are satisfying the issue of empowerment through multiple volunteer services that cater to the developing world, but i feel that my perspective is different because it uses reading not only as cause but as a movement. This window of opportunity in my opinion is infinitely open.
        Next, I would like to talk about innovation. Innovation is increasingly relevant since it is essentially the way that your product will be positioned, conducted and branded. The way that I am hoping to set this idea up is gathering donations from different sources that have similar missions. I would gather books and set up donation routes. I would visit places like the boys and girls club. girls place, schools and different clubs on campus. Ideally I would love to create a service mission where volunteers would travel and visit other nonprofit organizations as Fabretto in Nicaragua ( that is non-profit that creates schools ) and have volunteers read books that they would bring to them and have literary discussions. The trip would most definitely have a fee and monetary help through grants and IRS donations being I would want it to be a 501 (c)(3). Also, locally I would love to continue the mission by having people sponsor/pay "empowerment bags" That would have a book of their choice, and an empowering message.
        To make chief point in dressing my venture concept, people and volunteers would pay to be apart of this experience because american people are becoming increasingly liberal, open to change, socially conscience and less exclusive. This venture would most definitely address these issues in developing countries because it will serve as a way to tie in a gap, and people love to participate in socially awareness activities. Customers would not switch to my product since it is a service. Also, my competitors I believe is my self since the organization is not for profit. This is for a fact the weakness and vulnerability of the venture. Not only are these weakness difficult but marketing will therefore be twice as essential. Things such as my price points, distribution, customer support, the customer experience or the business location will be determining factors to my success. Finally the organization of this idea will be stemmed of creating a presence in college millennials where they feel empowered to empower others.
Additionally, I would like to talk about my secret sauce. My secret element to success is the fact that I am a lot more passionate about this than guacanola. This being the situation, I feel that it hindered my creative process when developing my product. Also, as a millennial I have the unfair advantage knowing what appeals to them. The next step is just diving myself and making this happen making sure that I at least try and hopefully see a progress within the next 5 years!
Finally, from me gathering my feedback from my "whats next " "and "venture concept" I have learned that people respond better when they understand my concept and are confident in my abilities. I intend to portray this because I do posses these abilities in this field. All in all, I learned that this was not the circumstance in my prior product and it is here so I intend to actually succeed! Hope you all love it as much as I do!

Week 14 reading

 The biggest surprise to read was about the difference in the mind of a social entrepreneur and a business entrepreneur. I can agree with everything the author writes because I think that the entrepreneurial journey is all inter-correlated some way. Moreover, if I was to ask the author some questions I would ask if there are prominent differences in social and business entrepreneurs, and I would also ask if the social obligation distract the business model. These questions are confusing to me.

Google Gold

 As I learned, search engine optimization in a network as large as google is very essential. During the course of the development of my blog, some of the things I did to pursue SEO was to make sure that everything that I wrote was compelling in some way. The more intriguing something will be online the more attraction or interest it will generate. Additionally, some keywords that I used were youth, modern, healthy to attract a target market. I pretty much continued this concept throughout the blog. Although I can recognize that social media may enhance the SEO efforts I did not have a stable concept to surface yet that I was able to put out. I am a believer that social media does generate a great success considering that plenty of sales today in business are generated via web. A post that generated the most traffic I believe was my first post because a lot of people did not know or understand my product. Finally, it was really cool to see that I made it to the first page of google!

Very Short Interview Part 2

Reflecting from my original experience and in essence opener to the science and practice of entrepreneurship, it has been very interesting to discover a great deal of personal growth within my character, spirit, and over all entrepreneurial mindset. As this semester comes to a close, to my pleasant discovery, I found that my second interview with CFO of Cabo Flats Delia Amador, and part owner, was a lot more directive, to the point and in general with a purpose. Although she did not feel comfortable for business purposes to engage in video/audio interview, we engaged in a short email interview to solve a few "pressing questions". My questions went as followed:

1) As an entrepreneur what was the the largest unmet need that you were able to meet in expanding your product/ service?

-  "That is a great question, well the largest unmet need that as a company we have been able to target has been the demand for high quality Mexican food and drinks. Being from South Florida, there is a culture that is heavily reliant on street/ pub food for this amazing food. Attacking this market has been a huge success when matching the food to excellent service (that is well appreciated in Miami) that Cabo continuously provides".

2) From your success to date, what has been the key element in your business to succeed?
- To date, I believe that any business like Cabo when creating a line extension as we have in opening different restaurant has been to diversify. Diversity is important not only in business but in areas like South Florida that fluctuates in socioeconomic levels.

3) Where do you see your company and your self in 5 years?
- In five years from today, we plan on just working on continuous success and distinguishing the brand that is Cabo Flats. In a few short years, we have been able to make a small start up restaurant to a successful recognizable brand that is valued at 8 million dollars, and featured recently in the Miami Food and Wine festival. This is a positive direction, so to me the sky is the limit right now.