Reflection Paper

It was this exposure to the world of entrepreneurship that demonstrated to me the kind of future I wanted.

First of all, students and young entrepreneurs should understand that they are not the first or the last, who do such business. That means that a lot of data - studies, advices, stories of successful and unsuccessful forerunners - could be found from a variety of sources. However, one should also understand that every business has its own path with own decisions, communications and methods of bypassing problems – each and every firm is always in its own set of circumstances that require specific actions. When one learns, steps can be repeated after someone, when one does a business, he/she takes a role of a trail blazer, who has to discover the essence. This is not the only concept an entrepreneur should understand and there are specially adopted programs, provided in various colleges, including Paul college at UNH, that allow students to develop their own businesses being guided by their instructors (Laura Hill).

I would like to explore making the education of the student to be innovative. The student needs to learn to question what is being taught while actually learning new information and earning a new understanding of information. Entrepreneurship can be taught in my opinion, serial entrepreneurs can only do so if they have the creative ability to string together innovative ideas and thoughts.

Alfred Mercier once said, “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” This quote reveals the importance of how learning something we like with pleasure would often teach us something rather than just feeding anything in our mind. Similarly, the video of “Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs” was a great learning experience for me. Usually, watching a video about business can be boring since there are not fun and exciting videos that can be watched. Instead, after watching this video I learned a lot more about entrepreneurs and how they face the real world. Since, I am majoring in business myself receiving advices from successful individuals becomes a great learning experience for myself that will always be with me when I am going to become a business women. In the video, Guy Kawasaki a marketing executive in Silicon Valley and former Apple employ exhibits the mistakes that entrepreneurs are likely to make revealing the importance of how to avoid them.

The student that I think best-demonstrated entrepreneurship skills is Nicole Kelly. She demonstrated entrepreneurship skills like research, management and relationships skills. Her research skills were shown when she proposed this product in the presentations. She completed all the research necessary from different sources to make this product successful like the production, accounting, marketing, etc. She used theses information and applied it to this company. As you’ve seen right from the start she had all the production materials for the production department. Nicole’s management skills were displayed throughout the selling process for example she plans, organizes, directs and take control. The planning was completed through the presentations. Nicole organized everyone into each department and told them their jobs and roles. She encourages people to stay on task and helps them stay focused and she

When I signed up for this class, I never thought it would change anything about myself. This class has allowed me to think differently, and view people in a new way. It has provided me with tools for the future in parenting, career, and relationship. I learn most of these tools in chapters five, six, seven, eight, ten, eleven, and twelve. In these chapters I learned how learning, memory, thinking, personality, psychological disorders, and many other psychological topics can shape how someone perceives others, and life.

I have been playing soccer since I was five years old.  As a girl who didn’t have a lot of self-confidence, my ability to play this game well gave me a lot of positive attention.  I made friends and loved the feeling of being part of a team.  The soccer field became the one place I felt the most confident.

“Khong Oi! Lam mot viet nay cho ma..khong you do for ma-my okay? ”--which translates from Vietnamese to “Child of mine! Do one more thing for me, child, you do for your mommy okay?.” I honestly use to hate when my mother asked me to do something for her. Even worse, I would feel embarrassed when she asked me something in her broken English. Being an adolescent, I did not understand the reasoning behind her persistent nagging or why she would ask to do so many chores, run all these errands with her, or do all these cleanings around the house. I would constantly retaliate to her firm scoldings and fiery lectures which made me believe she did not love me and I could do nothing right by her. My mother raised me with such an iron hand and back then I could not understand why. Back then I could not comprehend the meaning behind everything she did or how little I knew of the endless ways my mother showed me strength, empathy and resiliency, all in her non traditional way and how I would reflect those attributes growing up.

“What’s the point? We are not going to win anyway” M argued with the coaches

Coming into my Composition I class, I did not really know what to expect. Some of the seniors from last year told me that it was not particularly difficult, but I needed to be prepared to work. However, last year’s seniors had the class for a whole semester; I had only nine weeks. As a result, I was not aware of how fast paced Composition I would be. In previous classes, I was used to having long increments of time to complete research papers, but now, I am expected to complete research papers in much shorter amounts of time, sometimes just one week. Even though this process has been quite grueling at certain times, my introductions, content, and sentence variation have massively improved, making it easier to put my ideas on paper.

I thought I was perfect. I was smarter, faster, and stronger than my classmates. I got straight A+’s and all my teachers appreciated my hard work. I was, literally, perfect. Or so I thought. During class, taking tests, and during P.E., I constantly had a terrible attitude, because I was bored, tired, and uninterested in the learning material. I didn’t realize how you did your work was just as important as doing the work itself. I looked down on those who got grades lower than an A+. I was also arrogant. My self - confidence resulted in my no friends. And I didn’t care. I felt I was too smart for everyone else.

At the beginning of the course I had only had basic entrepreneur knowledge, I understood the traits, and the amount of thought put into a business. I understood a entrepreneur needed to be able to set goals and had to establish connections and business partners. I was actually lucky enough to have taken a entrepreneur class in highschool. Which taught me lots on how an entrepreneur business is started. It also taught me the required determination and hard work it takes to be a entrepreneur.

However, it should be noted that the Institute’s Entrepreneurship Fundamentals course began in spring and ran through the summer. As a result, this schedule duration became an inconvenience for some students but most importantly it contributed to our low class retention. Although students of various skill levels became

Second, I also learnt how to bring forward innovation and put it into practice. Through inviting experts to teach farmers breed bees, we helped beekeepers adopt the new technique to achieve mass production, successfully developing a new product- honey comb that could make a higher profit. Last, this experience also taught me how to utilize core competence. As students who were for public benefit, we easily won more support from the society, which facilitated many business cooperation chances for farmers. Fortunately, based on the model and outcome of project, our team won runner-up out of 200 prestigious universities in the Enactus National Competition in 2015. At that time, I was sure that entrepreneurship was all about catching the opportunity, taking action and pursuing success.

Taking this entrepreneur course has been the best thing I could do for myself. Not only did it grow my mindset, but it taught me how to focus and concentrate on meeting my goals. At the beginning of this semester I could not let go the negative self-image I had of myself. Since I have been able to reflect on who I am I am slowly able to let go of that past image. I now know that I am more than able to reach my goals with the proper mindset and skills. I have come a long way since the beginning of this course. At the beginning of this course we were asked what is most important in life, and when I chose myself I knew after that reflections that I was off to a great start. Putting myself first these last few months has been the best thing I