29A – Venture Concept No. 2

My product is a hardware device that is small enough to be on a key-chain, fit in a wallet or place in a belonging that reminds you where they last were and when you are about to leave them behind. This product will make it so no one will ever lose their keys or wallet again, with just having to look at their phone with the app that comes along with the hardware device. The app will show you the last place your keys or wallet was and send you a notification when leaving without either one.

The people who I am making this product for are the people who are forgetful or lazy about the management of their keys and wallet. These people don’t feel like keeping track of their things and would want an easier way to know where their belongings are at any time they need to know.

They care about my product because personal belongings especially keys and a wallet are things we need for everyday activities from driving, riding the bus, or paying for food. Most people who need their belongings are in a hurry and must look for them in a rush before they leave their home and it causes people to be late.

My main competitor would be the company tile who shares most of my idea; however, theirs does not notify you when you have gone away from your belongings reminding you to not forget them.

My secret sauce is the use of notification to tell someone when they are forgetting something before they lose them. What will make it hard to copy is the coding that goes into my product making it more efficient and easier for customers to find their things. Next for this opportunity is the making of a version of the previous product but for living things. Like animals and small children in the form of collars and jewelry respectively. After five years or so I think I would like to sell the company for a large amount and have royalties for the products I have patented and made. Then going on to invest in other opportunities that I am interested in.

I did not receive feedback on my original post, so I changed two things that I thought needed improvement on. I first improved what I am offering by changing the wording of how it is designed. Secondly, I made it clearer on why my customers care about my product more than the competitors.

30A – Final Reflection

Throughout all my posts I seen the development of how I write and how comfortable I am now writing blogs about an idea I have or an opinion I have made about something. I see all of the mistakes I made and the growing of an entrepreneur I have become while taking this class.

The most formative experience was probably reading the biographies of famous and successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. The experience I will remember for years is the interviews of people about what they think is special about me. The most joyous experience is making this final reflection and seeing how far I have come in this course. My most proud moment was when I pushed myself to complete assignments I knew would take most of my energy and time when I could have been doing other things I enjoyed. This course was definitely my busiest course this semester.

  

At the end of this course I do feel as though I am an entrepreneur. I as well think I have created an entrepreneur mindset that will help in future endeavors with opportunities I can take advantage of.

The one recommendation I would make to a future student taking this course if to do the work a week in advance or at least plan for the work a week in advance. I recommend they have mindset of preparedness for how much work they will be given to do each week as an entrepreneur in the making.

28A – Your Exit Strategy

I intend to sell my business in the next five years for a large return. Then probably move on to another idea. The idea and concept were my own and I started this opportunity, but I feel as though it isn’t a long-term opportunity for decades to come. I honestly do think it influences my decisions on this product other than identifying the problem because I feel the opportunity was a simple problem that I found and thought it could be resolved with the technology we have today. The growth intentions were altered a little when thinking of selling this company after only a couple of years because you do not have to fully develop an opportunity into a company to sell it and make money off it. You can sell the rights and get royalty off your idea if it patented. It effects how I plan to acquire and use resources because of the risk of not selling the idea and opportunity so I should not put a lot of money into physical resources but to make it work and proof of concept be enough.

27A – Reading Reflection No. 3

Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

What surprised me the most of Steve Jobs is that he quit college to only go back and listen in on college class that he then did not get credit for. The most admirable thing about Steve Jobs is the philosophy he brought to apple which was to make products anyone can use no matter the age or experience with technology while making it elegant enough to appeal to the masses. The least admirable thing about Steve jobs is the fact that he pushed people away more than he let them in while both in his personal life and career. Steve Jobs was met with adversity and failure most of his life. From the startup of apple, the kicking of him out at the CEO position, to the family issues he had especially with his daughter.

Steve Jobs was one of the most competitive and influential tech speakers of all time. He was the perfect salesman for computers and knew it. He tried so hard to be competitive that he was even competing against his own company with other project teams to make something better and more successful.

One aspect that was a little confusing was when the author, Walter Isaacson, would dwell on and on about the temper and anger that Steve Jobs had.

Two questions I would ask Steve Jobs would be What did he think before he died apple would achieve like they did with the first iPod? and What was his favorite project throughout his time at apple?

I think that Steve Jobs’ opinion on hard work is that it is necessary and not replaceable to be successful in life. I share this opinion with Steve Jobs, but I do feel as though he made the bar very high.

26A – Celebrating Failure

I have failed multiple times while cooking this semester. It might not sound like a big deal, but I do think of myself as pretty good at cooking so when I mess up a dish or improperly cook something it resonates with me as being a failure. The two times that stick out for me when I failed at cooking was when I messed up a soup and when I did not cook potatoes fully.

The soup was going to be a cheesy and creamy soup with diced chicken, onion, carrot, and pasta. I had everything done by scratch and ready for the milk and cheese to go in. My first mistake was getting low moisture cheese which is harder to make melt. So, I added in the milk and then finally the cheese. The second mistake I made was having the temperature too high causing the already hard to melt cheese to start clumping. The fats had been boiled out of the cheese which then made the cheese into a rubbery sticky consistency. All these mistakes turned into a failure that I learned from.

The potatoe situation was a different failure this semester. Firstly, I had chopped the potatoes into a dice so that they would be easier and quicker to cook. However, I made a rookie mistake and tried to put way too much of the potatoes in the pan with onions and chopped bacon. I thought the bacon would cook down while the potatoes were cooking, and the onions would caramelize while all at the same time. Next mistake was putting paprika as one of the spices on it all making the not cooked potatoes have color. Which if you know how to cook things, you know that color means cooking. So, the combination of darkening the potatoes with paprika and the over filling of the pan made most of the potatoes not fully cooked by the time the main part of the dinner was done being made.

I have learned to not get low moisture cheese for soups, or if you do use it you need the right temperature and enough acidic elements in the soup to keep the cheese from clumping. I have also learned to not fill the pan up with a lot of something and the color should be a dark brown for potatoes not just slightly brown from spices.

I think failure is the only way we learn because if we never failed then we would go on with our day doing things that we never knew fully about. I think I handle failure emotionally and behaviorally in the sense that I become persistent in trying to fix a failure and do not like when people tell me to let a failure go because I want to learn how to fix it and better myself and change. I don’t think I am more likely to take a risk because of this class but I do feel like I can understand those risks better now that I have learned about changing and evolving one self or a product.  

22A – Elevator Pitch No. 3

"Have you ever forgot about your keys, or wallet while walking out to your car? Have your kids ever whined that they can’t find their stuffed animal? The stuffed animal that they take everywhere with them. My name is Zac Hoeper and my idea is a hardware device that will allow you to never lose or forget about your keys, wallet, or personal belonging ever again. It works off a Bluetooth signal that identifies exactly where the object last was. It makes it easy for you to understand that you are about to forget about your belonging. The app that comes with the hardware will push notifications to your phone when you get too far from belongings. This will help in reminding you not to forget about it. It is for those people who always misplace their things. it is easily installable to all objects, it will have a hole for key chains, it is small and thin enough for wallets and lightweight enough to not weigh your personal belongings down. Other competitors have noises that let you know exactly where your hardware devices are but my idea it will just give you simple notification with a location that doesn’t disrupt or make inconvenience. My idea is the best way to bring back the things you love."

I changed some of the wording that felt lengthened my pitch and also gave it more depth. The comments on my last last pitch was all positive and so nothing really changed from that. Even though I still feel a little nervous while making these, I do feel more confident in speaking in this last pitch than the others.

https://youtu.be/0ps0EHuU4sw

23A – Your Venture’s Unfair Advantage

1.       Coding experience

a.       Need it for operation of programs

b.       Not rare and inimitable

c.       Non-substitutable

2.       GIS experience

a.       Need it for operation of device

b.       Not Inimitable and not rare

c.       Non-substitutable

3.       Computer parts experience

a.       Need it for operation of device

b.       Not rare and not inimitable

c.       Non-substitutable

4.       Money for parts to prototype device

a.       Need it for starting point

b.       Not rare and not inimitable

c.       Substitute with loans or investments

5.       A college full of people to test prototype

a.       Will help with production of device

b.       Not rare or inimitable

c.       Substitute with other groups of people

6.       Professors who could help make the device

a.       Help fine tune the ideas and concept

b.       Not rare or inimitable

c.       Substitute with any higher educated people

7.       Opportunity for research grant from school

a.       Help fund making of device and labor

b.       Not rare or inimitable

c.       Non-substitutable since it is free money

8.       Engineering club that would help design / create

a.       Help with labor and ideas

b.       Not rare or imitable

c.       Substitutable for any engineering club

9.       Inventors I know can help

a.       Help with ideas and patenting

b.       Not rare or imitable

c.       Substitute with any inventor

10.   Friends and family that can invest

a.       Fund product

b.       Rare but not imitable

c.       Substitute with any money source

After conducting my VRIN analysis, I have determined that my coding experience is the most valuable and my top resource. It is my top resource because it is different for all coders depending on what coding languages they are familiar with and the style of coding they prefer.

21A – Reading Reflection No. 2

The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users by Guy Kawasaki

The general theme or argument that the two authors make is that if you want to be a successful person in the day and age of social media then you need to follow their rules on making your content attractive enough for others to follow you and for them to want more of you.

The book connected with ENC 3003 by talking about what social media can do for someone's success in not only showcasing a product but also themselves. It also enhances the idea of new age ideas that come from being connected to people online and mass communication to an audience that listens to people they follow on social media.

An exercise I would create based off this book would be about how to start a successful and dominant social media profile. It would involve the major steps that are throughout the book on how to optimize your profile, how to make content for a wanting audience, how to respond to your followers' comments, and how to get more followers.

The biggest surprise I found while reading this book was the content curation section. So instead of creating your own content just go to a more popular or higher quality social media profile and then summarize their content.onto your page.

19A – Idea Napkin No. 2

Me

I am a Geography major with a focus in Geographical Information Systems. I have skills in basic engineering and coding out into experience with a coding internship and building robots. My aspirations are to use GIS in correlation with hardware to make new opportunities in not only geography but in other areas as well. If I started this business, it would make a great introductory for me in the information systems and prepare me for other companies that deal with geographical technologies. 

What I am offering to customers

My product is a hardware device that is small enough to be on a key-chain, fit in a wallet or place in a belonging that reminds you where they last were and when you are about to leave them behind. This product will make it so no one will ever lose their keys or wallet again, with just having to look at their phone with the app that comes along with the hardware device. The app will show you the last place your keys or wallet was and send you a notification when leaving without either one.

Who am I offering this product to

The people who I am making this product for are the people who are forgetful or lazy about the management of their keys and wallet. These people don’t feel like keeping track of their things and would want an easier way to know where their belongings are at anytime they need to know.

Why they care

They care about my product because personal belongings especially keys and a wallet are things we need for everyday activities from driving, riding the bus, or paying for food. Most people who need their belongings are in a hurry and have to look for them in a rush before they leave their home and it causes people to be late.

Who are my core competencies

My main competitor would be the company tile who shares most of my idea; however, theirs does not notify you when you have gone away from your belongings reminding you to not forget them.

These five elements fit together with my background and future in coding hardware with this company that will make geographical readings that then interpreted for the user to know where their keys and wallet were last. People need this kind product because we are selling to humans who are forgetful and not perfect. This device helps in small aspect of finding lost things and notifies the user before they ever lose said items. The only weaker aspect of my company compared to tile is that I did not think of a community to help with lost and found because I was thinking of this as a more personal product.

Feedback Memo

I did not receive feedback on my original idea napkin post so I changed two things that I thought needed improvement. I first improved the "what I am offering" section by changing the wording of how it is designed. Secondly, I i made it more clear on why my customers care about my product in the "why they care" section.

17A – Elevator Pitch No. 2

I did not receive feedback on my first elevator pitch so I tried to make adjustments how I saw fit when trying to make it better. I used props to make it a little bit clearer on what my product would help solve. I tried to sway less while on camera since I noticed I tend to do that a lot when nervous.
https://youtu.be/pKtQanN6g1I

16A –What’s Your Secret Sauce?

Five Truly unique ways that makes me have human capitol

I have a very broad and wide knowledge of things in general

I am very reserved until I need to speak

I have a lot of experience with computers and coding

I am very good at almost any video game I play

I have watched way too many shows and movies

Interview 1

She thinks that I treat everyone fair even if I don’t know the person. She also believes that anyone we know that has technical issues asks me for help.

Interview 2

She thinks that I am intelligent individual who is open to learning new things to further myself. I am also very driven and have great determination when I decide I want to get something done.

Interview 3

He talks about how I am open to other critiques and opinions when given them. However, I am still confident in my own abilities to be great at what I am doing.

Interview 4

He says that I have a good background in many aspects of technology. That experience seems to help with my patience when trying to solve technological issues.

Interview 5

She makes the point that I have a level head when obstacles in my way. I also continue to work through any hardships that may hinder on what I am working on.

Differences

I see myself in more of the knowledge and skills aspects while others that I know see more of the emotions and abilities I have. The main difference between how I see myself than others is that I see less seriousness and others focus on my more serious qualities. I think that these differences are caused by me being more serious around others than I truly think I am and I believe these interviews are correct about me. I think I may change some of the less serious things like the movies and video games into a more serious quality of mine.

18A – Create a Customer Avatar

My customer avatar is a college male student who loves to go out at night to hangout with friends. My customer avatar’s hobbies would probably be video games, participating in their school club, going out with their friends, and watching Netflix. They would tend to drive either young adult styled car like a sports car like a mustang. With their car being neutral colors like black or blue. They do not have children. Their favorite book would be 1984 by George Orwell and their favorite politician is Bernie Sanders. They would feel as old as a college student or still feel like they are transitioning to college age.

I am a male student in college and I feel as if I am college age. All the hobbies I gave to my avatar are like the ones I have. I do not drive a mustang, I have a jeep, but it is colored blue like my customer avatar. I do not have children and my favorite book is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I do not have a favorite politician as right now the popular ones are too one sided on most issues. I feel as though these connections are not coincident since when I was coming up with my idea I was thinking of something that would better help me in my day to day life.

15A – Figuring Out Buyer Behavior No. 2

My segment is made up of people who are unorganized and forgetful with their belongings but can also understand a tracking app. The age to fit this would be young adults to middle aged people (18-50).

The three people I interviewed: 20-year-old male, 21-year-old female, 18-year-old male

All three interviewees talk about how the price is the most important aspect of alternatives to this type of product. However, the older people thought that buying the more expensive alternatives would be the best solution and the youngest would rather a cheaper product. For the 21-year-old and 20-year-old, quality was needed to buy an expensive alternative while the 19-year-old said they would only buy cheaper ones, so the quality didn’t need to be the best. 21-year-old and the 18-year-old were very keen on having the product look nice and a style they want since it will always be with them or something they will always have when out.

All three buys mostly online and have things shipped to them but if they find it is in stores will take the time to go get it locally. Most of them don’t carry cash and only the 20-year-old would pay for a moderately priced product with cash for security reasons.

When the 20 and 21-year-old interviewees try and buy products they first think if they need it. They then try to estimate whether the product will be worth the cost in how much the product will help their lives. The 18-year-old doesn’t really think that way, he only thinks about if he can afford the product and still buy other things he wanted while shopping. Once they buy products they say that if they use the product the intended amount of time or more then they feel as if the buy was a good idea. As well, they all said if they very rarely or never use the product then it was a bad idea to purchase that said product in the first place.

This segment would like a quality object and a slightly lower quality version for a cheaper but still have style so that when out in public it will look good for the person using it and my company for advertisement. Most will buy electronically online and want it shipped but if they see it in a store they would buy it. If they use the product the amount of times for the intended usage and it helps their quality of life, then they would feel it was a good idea to buy the said product.

14A – Halfway Reflection

The behaviors that I have had to use to keep up with the requirements of the class are perseverance, tenaciousness, and calmness. I have had to push through the assignments I did not feel ready or prepared to make with stopping and thinking about what I could answer right away and figure out while completing the assignment. I had to push my self to make interviews that I do not usually need to do for other classes nor was I comfortable questioning people on things about a fake product.

I felt like giving up when I had to come up with five different interviews for a product that I barely had a concept for and did not feel like having to receive almost an hour worth of material from interviews to then write about in a long a precise blog post. What pulled me through was knowing that even if I scored low on an assignment or two that I was still going to be able to achieve a reasonably well grade in the class. I feel as if it has become easier to do the assignments given from my tenaciousness that I have refined during the first half of this of this semester. These experiences of hardship are the contributors to my growth in tenacity while learning in this course.

These three tips will help future semester students hone in on their tenacity and help support that behavior throughout their semester in this course:

Look at assignments a week in advance to plan for what you need to do the following week

Once you have time to do these assignments, split them into easy sections to work with

Finally, look how others in your group have done their assignment and compare the quality of yours

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13A – Reading Reflection No. 1

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance

What surprised me the most about Elon is the determination he had to learn about computers and technology since he was very young. Which is also one of the most admiring things about him is that no matter what to him or his family he kept on learning to improve himself mentally. I think that least admirable thing about Elon Musk is that even after he was kicked out of his CEO spot in PayPal he still invested in it afterwards. I would not be able to put money into a company that I knew they pushed me out of my job. Elon Musk fought diversity all through his life from being bullied while a kid, to being fired for using the wrong coffee maker, to being told you are k=no longer the CEO of your company, to having his first son die, to having multiple rockets explode, divorcing his college sweet heart and told his company will never work. He has always just reevaluated the situation and moved forward with new ideas and innovation that will help save the world.

The competencies I noticed was that he left his Stanford PHD after two days to build a company and even after being pushed out of multiple companies and selling them off he still had future ideas and propositions to follow.

The only part of the reading that was a little confusing was the notion of the deflating American soul.

The two questions I would ask Elon Musk are:

Would leaving Earth and going to Mars and eventually off into space actually save everyone in the long run or are people going to be left behind somewhere along the way?

If you could take back one piece of technology that exists right now back in to time to when you were first an entrepreneur what would it be and why?

I would ask these two questions because I am curious about his future idea of space travel for all of humankind and how he would change time with a single technology and why that would be the most important to him.

Elon Musk would probably consider hard work a necessity for entrepreneurship and innovation. I would definitely agree to this idea because without the handwork of mathematicians and scientists we would not have the science and technology that helps keep our society up and running even if it seems to be in the background of your daily life.

12A – Figuring Out Buyer Behavior No. 1

My segment is made up of people who are unorganized and forgetful with their belongings but can also understand a tracking app. The age to fit this would be young adults to middle aged people (18-50).

The three people I interviewed: 19-year-old female, 21-year-old male, 35-year-old male

Both the 19-year-old and the 21-year-old say the time they most need this is right before they leave for class which is at different times for different days. While the 35-year-old has a consistent every day before work in the morning. They would need this product before they left to go out to do something that pertained to keys or a wallet / purse. When their need awareness occurs is when they can not find their belongings and are running late in their schedule. The reason they are aware is because they forgot where they placed their belongings the night before or accidentally left them in clothing. Their need awareness occurs usually in their bedroom or around their home when they are looking for their things.

The very first thing they do to try and find a solution is either try and remember, look in every piece of dirty clothing, or check common areas around their home. When they search in google they see gadgets that claim to help or wikiHow articles on how to never lose your objects. They usually don’t talk to family as they would get scolded or the solution given to them wouldn’t be worthwhile.

From these interviews I have found out that they mostly need this product for when they get ready for the day and when they go out to do something. The need awareness and information search that this segment seems to have is to only have problems when they don’t feel like placing their objects in one place everyday when they get home and only finding cheap tricks and crappy online gadgets from articles that say they will help.

10A – Elevator Pitch No. 1

"Have you ever forgot about your keys, or wallet while walking out to your car? Has your kids ever wined that they can’t find their stuffed animal that they take everywhere with them. My name is Zac Hoeper and my idea is a hardware device that will allow you never lose or forget about your keys, wallet, or personal belonging ever again. It works off a Bluetooth signal that identifies exactly where the object last was for you to easily find it. The app that comes with the hardware will give you notifications on your phone when you go too far from it reminding you not to forget about it. It is for those people who always misplace their things. it is easily installable to all objects, it will have a hole for key chains, it is small and thin enough for wallets and lightweight enough to not weigh your personal belongings down. Other competitors have noises that let you know exactly where your hardware devices are but my idea it will just give you simple notification with a location that doesn’t disrupt or make inconvenience. My idea is the best way to bring back the things you love."


Elevator Pitch Video

11A - Idea Napkin No. 1

Me

I am a Geography major with a focus in Geographical Information Systems. I have skills in basic engineering and coding out into experience with a coding internship and building robots. My aspirations are to use GIS in correlation with hardware to make new opportunities in not only geography but in other areas as well. If I started this business, it would make a great introductory for me in the information systems and prepare me for other companies that deal with geographical technologies.

What I am offering to customers

My product is a hardware device that is small enough to be on a key-chain or fit in a wallet that reminds you where they last are and when you are about to forget them. This product will make it so no one will ever lose their keys or wallet again, with just having to look at their phone with the app that comes along with the hardware device. The app will show you the last place your keys or wallet was and send you a notification when leaving without either one.

Who am I offering this product to

The people who I am making this product for are the people who are forgetful or lazy about the management of their keys and wallet. These people don’t feel like keeping track of their things and would want an easier way to know where their belongings are at anytime they need to know.

Why they care

These people care because keys and a wallet are almost as much of a need as a phone is nowadays. People need their keys and wallet to drive somewhere or get a bus ride or buy anything. Most people who need their belongings are in a hurry and after to look for them in a rush before they leave their home and it sometimes causes people to be late.

Who are my core competencies

My main competitor would be the company tile who shares most of my idea; however, theirs does not notify you when you have gone away from your belongings reminding you to not forget them.

These five elements fit together with my background and future in coding hardware with this company that will make geographical readings that then interpreted for the user to know where their keys and wallet were last. People need this kind product because we are selling to humans who are forgetful and not perfect. This device helps in small aspect of finding lost things and notifies the user before they ever lose said items. The only weaker aspect of my company compared to tile is that I did not think of a community to help with lost and found because I was thinking of this as a more personal product.

9A - Testing the Hypothesis Part 2

The unmet need of knowing if they forgot their keys or wallet by using Bluetooth devices on them is the opportunity I am using to interview my five people.

From my interviews I conducted, I have found that certain people who share the need for knowing where their keys and wallet are at certain times have underlying exceptions to this opportunity. They feel like they have a certain spot for their keys and wallet that are easy for them to remember where they are when going out or that they never take their belongings with them every time they go out.

The point that the need differs is when the objects are stolen since it only shows the place it was received by your phone’s Bluetooth signal.

The underlying cause of the outsiders’ need is different than the people on the inside because of them only needing the devices for when they don’t have specific spots for their belongings or at a place where they don’t have specific place to put them like a friend’s house.

Inside the boundary                                                                                  Outside the boundary

People who forget their things                                                                    Organized people

Reminding you / helping find things in an area                                          stolen objects

People forget and misplace things                                                               stolen or dropped

8a - Solving The Problem

My problem is forgetting your keys or wallet before wanting to go out. The solution to this common problem would be to make small Bluetooth capable devices. For your wallet the device would be the shape and size of a credit card and for your keys it would be a simple key chain. The devices would contain small rechargeable batteries to keep the product compact and so the consumer would not have to worry about changing the batteries. The batteries will be wirelessly charged on a charging station pad. How the devices would work would be that they would connect via Bluetooth to the consumers phone and as soon as the consumer walks far enough away from the device that is with their keys or wallet the Blue tooth connection would be lost and they would get a notification on their phone telling them that the connection had been lost. The notification would also tell them the coordinates of the last place the device had been when last connected or how far away they are from it.

Identifying Local Opportunities

The Senate wants to boost college, university funds $383M. The House seeks a cut. FAR APART ON EDUCATION

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/169A858FB8769700

?p=WORLDNEWS

A committee of higher education in the senate proposed a budget to raise spending for

universities and colleges. However, the House has proposed to cut spending on universities

and colleges. The problem is that our government is cohesive and communicating on what 

they want to do with higher education spending. The people who have the problem is the 

government and which then trickles down to researchers and professors in universities and 

colleges. 

SOLAR TARIFFS MAY RAISE DUKE BILLS

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/169A859091869A50

?p=WORLDNEWS

Duke is trying to make Florida residence pay for the hurricane cleanup and fixes and the 

trump administration put tariffs on solar power equipment. Both of these situations are a 

possibility of that Florida residents will have to pay more for things that are out of their hands. 

The people who have the problem is the Power company Duke Energy but they will in turn 

make it the Florida

residence's problem by increasing prices.

STATE CONSTRUCTION REVIVAL AMONG BEST

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/169A8590C6801000

?p=WORLDNEWS

Florida is a leader in the Nation for rebuilding their construction industry, however, in the past 

three months Florida has dropped down to fourth place with only an addition of 4600 jobs. 

The problem is that Florida is starting to get beat in the race of job creation among the other 

states. The people who have the problem are the ones who live in Florida and need a job.

APPOINTED BY SCOTT, BUT BASED ON WHAT?

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/169A858FDEDB4EA8

?p=WORLDNEWS

The educational board mostly consists of lawyers and the wildlife commission has a past 

community relations executive for a retirement community. The problem is that these sections

of the government appointed by the Senator are not properly appointed to the right people. 

The people who have the problem are the teachers and staff at schools in Florida or the 

people who work for Florida fish and wildlife.

The man in the car says technically he did not steal it, police say. SUIT: VALET GAVE
FERRARI KEY TO THIEF

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/169A8590178C7910
?p=WORLDNEWS

A man asked a valet if he can have the keys to a sports car and they were handed over 
without any effort. This man was taking someone else's car without the owner's approval. The 
man was found and arrested but says he technically didn't steal it but that the valet gave it to 
him. Now the owner is suing both the valet and the thief. The problem is that the valet handed 
over keys of car to a random person without seeing any identification. The person or people 
who have the problem are people who valet and the valet service company who gets sued 
over this situation. 

Bug List

1. During the evening and night I can hear my annoying roommates out in the common area
1. It exists because the apartment I live in has paper thin walls and a air vent above my bedroom door that directly opens up to the hallway so sounds come in very easily.
2. The filtered water and ice cubes from my fridge tastes like chlorine which tastes disgusting
1. It is because the fridge uses chlorine based filtering instead of charcoal filters
3. The paint on my apartment walls chip and stain so easily
1. This exists because the apartment management only put one coat of paint on these walls 
4. I hate the fact that I can no longer listen to my phone with headphones while it is charging without getting a special adapter for it
1. This is because phones companies have gotten rid of the 3.5 mm headphone jack without the right technology to replace wired headphones
5. Car front windows get cracked way too easily from pebbles or debris that get shot at it
1. This happens because cars in front of you shoot rocks and pebbles from under their wheels toward your front window
6. When someone goes on their phone while in the middle of talking to someone
1. This happens because the person on the phone thinks that person they are talking to isn't more important than what's going on on the phone
7. When I lose something and can't find it ever after that point
1. This exists because humans can not remember every detail about their lives and do not keep things in one place forever
8. Someone interrupting me while i am trying talk about something
1. They feel the need to talk over me because think their addition of words will mean something to the conversation and don't wait until i am done speaking
9. Others talking while I am trying to watch a show that I'm interested in or like
1. The others who are talking don't care as much as I do about a show so they think it is okay to talk while the show is on
10. People chewing food or gum with their mouths open
1. They do not have manners and do not know any kind of etiquette for eating
11. Drivers who don't wait their turn at a stop sign / intersection
1. This happens because they are too impatient to wait a few extra seconds to get where they are going 
12. When my roommates leave their already washed laundry in the drier or washer and I need to use them
1. They are too lazy to get their clothes or they have to " do something quick" before taking it out
13. When my roommates don't take out their trash so it smells in the apartment
1. Again they are too lazy to take the trash bag down to the dumpster
14. Dishes pile up from roommates and I can not cook because they have used most of the pots and pans
1. Too lazy yet again to do normal chores and it is not my responsibility to clean their mess so I can cook
15. When you try to talk to someone about the issues they cause but they only give you excuses
1. They do not want to take responsibility of their actions and they don't feel as if they have done anything wrong
16. My car tires always getting nails or foreign objects stuck in them and that then lowers my tires' psi so i have to go get them fixed 
1. This is because people leave sharp objects but mostly nails on the road
17. When I make food for someone but they let it sit to the point of it getting cold
1. This happens because the person either purposefully or mistakenly doesn't start eating relatively after its ready 
18. When someone parks too close to my car so that it is easy to ding and hard to get in / out of
1. This exists because people are bad are parking or are too lazy to correct their parking.
19. When people who drive on the highway and go the speed limit or below while in the fast lane
1. People don't know common sense about driving or they are just old hags who are too stubborn to get out of the way
20. When semi truck drivers go into the left lane even though they aren't supposed to
1. They usually do this so they can get around one person who is in the slow lane with them

This list seemed difficult at the beginning; however, as time went on it became easier because my previous points would remind me of correlating or similar things to add after.

My Entrepreneurship Story

My step father has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started a company in his early twenties which sold TV dishes that would take the TV stations from over the air before they started to scramble them. Letting these people legally get free TV services back in the early eighties. He then made all sorts of small companies that would eventually be sold off or closed. However, he would always find a new one to begin. For few years he owned his own bar / restaurant which he says was the worst investment he had ever done but made up for all the memories he had from that experience. The most consistent and thriving business my step father created is the one he had made almost 20 years now and is still running to this day. It is a fiber-optics company that lays underground cables for the government/military and big corporations like Verizon and AT&T. These fiber-optics cables are for sending huge amounts of data from one point to another and can be as thick as six inches wide that also go for miles on end.

Pictures taken on my step fathers job site in a rural area

I decided to take this course because I do believe that building a company yourself or with others is more productive of your time than working for someone else. Learning about entrepreneurship and successful guidelines on how to get started with making your own business are lessons everyone should learn sooner than later. Furthermore, those lessons and the strategies to becoming successful in the real world work environment is what I hope to get out of this class

Test

This is a test blog for my class.