Final Reflection

What sticks out to you as the most formative experience? The experience that you'll remember years later? What was your most joyous experience? What experience are you most proud of yourself for accomplishing?

My favorite memory from this class is probably doing elevator pitch number 4.  I have never been a great presenter but while doing this pitch I really felt confident while doing it.  For the previous 3 pitches I had to do multiple takes because I would mess up on a word and give up, but for this pitch everything just seemed to flow.  In the years to come, I'll look back and remember this class forcing me to interview people and forcing me to get out of my comfort zone.  My most joyous experience in this class will be when I press publish on this post and I am finally done.  My most proud experience will be graduating college this semester.  My college experience has had many ups and downs and I was finally able to finish it.

At the beginning of the semester, I mentioned that I wanted each of you to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. And we repeated the mantra -- I am an entrepreneur. Now, at the end, do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Do you think you have moved closer to developing an entrepreneurial mindset?

I do not see myself as an entrepreneur.  I see myself as an economists and every experience I have will help me see how all the markets work.  I guess this class has helped me in seeing exactly how an entrepreneurial mindset is a great thing, but I know through experience that for an idea to succeed in today's society the idea either needs to be completely revolutionary or you need capital to back up your idea so bigger companies do not steal it.

What is the one recommendation you would make to the students who are going to journey down this path in the future? What would you recommend they do to perform best in this course? What would you recommend they do to foster that mindset?

To any students who are going to go down this journey I would urge them to be prepared to think outside of the box.  To do the best in the course I would suggest that they do not wait till the last minute to turn in all of the assignments.  For them to get the entrepreneurial mindset I would tell them that its just a way of thinking, it isn't something that is easily learned from a book.  

Elevator Pitch No. 4

 

Here is a link to it as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LibBAAka8

Venture Concept No. 2

My business idea is to create a company named Food-2-You.  Many times I have not eaten dinner or ate terrible fast food because I was too lazy to go to the store and buy groceries.  This business will have someone go to Publix for you and get your groceries so you don't have to.  This is the next big idea that will entice consumers.  I know many people now who will pay 5$ to have someone deliver them a sub, with Food-2-You you can purchase healthy foods.  

Everyone around America is getting lazier.  They all want a quick fix for all of their problems instead of doing it themselves.  My company will help build off this laziness idea. The market, especially around college campuses tend to have a bunch of young adults who are always complaining about not having time to do anything.  For a small fee, Food-2-You can help save you the time so you can study or do other things more.  Currently customers have to rely on unhealthy expensive food delivery services (ie. domino's) or go try to find a different way to get food.  This window of opportunity won’t be open long because other companies like amazon are in the works of making a business very similar to this.

I would charge customers a flat 5$ delivery fee, then for every item I would charge them .50$ up to 10 items.  Then if they order 10 or more items I would change it to .33$ per item.  This would only apply to customers within a 5 mile radius of the store.  If they lived further away, I would add a charge similar to how Uber charges people for rides.

I think customers will love this service because they can be lazy for a small fee.  This will also help a lot of people who do not have access to transportation.  As of now there are no competitors but in the near future Amazon will have a similar service, but you have to buy the products from Amazon and their prices may be higher than local grocery stores.  I would start off by creating the website and advertise it through the campus.  I would start off with only a couple of drivers then increase the amount as the demand for my service increases.

The most important part of this business will be the idea to delivery groceries.  I think the next idea I plan to tackle will involve an app that checks the freshness of food in your refrigerator.  In 5 years I would like to have Food-2-You be a chain business spread across the south and possibly have it set up where anyone could be a delivery person just like how anyone could be an uber driver.  

In the previous post, most of my feedback was positive except that apparently there are a lot of businesses like mine in big cities. As of now none of them are available in Gainesville. To make my business stand out I will attempt to start it up at food insecure areas. This will really help out in food insecure areas and could hopefully even end up being subsidized by the government.

Google Gold

1. For each blog post I would use witty titles (the ones provided) as well as labeling each week.  All of my google plus followers are able to see each of my posts so I mainly relied on them to help promote my blog.
2. The key words I used for my blog were the labels for each week, the creative blog titles, and I was hoping having my name on my blog would help promote it as well.  Throughout the semester I didn't change much on my blog but I do think that it looks good how it is now.
3. I relied on google plus and facebook to promote my blog.  All of my posts should have posted onto both of those websites so all of my friends could see and read my work.  I think most of my friends ignored my blog posts but some of them were very in to reading what I wrote.
4. My most viral post was the very short interview.  I think it was my most popular post because I sent my interviewee a link to the post so he could read it and check it out.
5. I did not make it to the front page for google because I used my name mercer as a keyword and mercer college has nearly all of the search results on the first page.