30A- Final Reflection
1) This class and all of its assignments brought a lot of lessons and stress in this past semester. I enjoyed reading the books and learning other people's stories, but those assignments took a lot of time to complete, since we had to read the whole book. Despite this, I loved the lessons I learned from these individuals and their experiences. I also kind of dreaded the elevator pitch, but I ended up enjoying it way more than I thought.
2) I think that the experience that was the most formative was finding, contacting, and speaking to market experts. It's not easy to find applicable people for your company and get their honest feedback about your idea, but it's essential to the longterm success of your company and how you form your company to fit the market. I was most proud of my elevator pitch and trying to being able to articulate my product idea well. This elevator pitch is important long term, because when looking for jobs, we will have to pitch ourselves, and this exercise helped us learn how to do this well.
3) I'm not sure that I identify completely as an entrepreneur, but I definitely learned a lot about being an entrepreneur and if I want to be an entrepreneur at some point, I feel like I definitely could.
4) I would tell future students that you get out of this course what you put in. If you put a lot of time and effort into the assignments, you will learn and grow more in the long run. This class is informative and helpful when learning how to have an entrepreneurial mindset. The entrepreneurial mindset can be applied to any area of work.
Hi Nancy,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, the reading reflections were quite time consuming but they offered great lessons and allowed me to learn more about some of the most successful entrepreneurs. The elevator pitches were very daunting at first, but once I got my thoughts on paper I had a great time doing them. Furthermore, having to go out and find people within your market and interview them to see the pros and cons of your product was incredibly insightful and gave me practice for the future, like who to contact and what to look for.
Hey there Nancy,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your thoughts on what you would tell future students before enrolling in the course. The more effort a person puts into each assignment, the more they are sure to get out of it. I do feel the same way with your #3 point too. It is hard to feel like an entrepreneur when not actually in a business, but it gave me the mindset to do that one day.