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?
The most memorable experience for me was completing the elevator pitches throughout the semester. I saw each pitch progressively getting a little bit polished, a little more convincing, a little more successful. This is a skill that I can not only use in my future career, but in any case where I am trying to persuade someone of something. Because of this, it is an experience that has real life application and resulted in being the assignment that I enjoyed the most.
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'm not quite sure see myself as an entrepreneur yet just because I have not actually began any sort of venture, however, I feel like I certainly do have more of an entrepreneurial mindset after having completed this course. That consists of identifying a need in a specific market, making a plan for how you will go about obtaining the necessary resources and providing that need, moving forward with your plan and lastly, learning from your mistakes and failures. Those are skills that have certainly developed more maturely as I have progressed throughout this course.
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?
I would certainly recommend keeping up with an agenda for this course because there are so many assignments and setting each assignment due date at least two days earlier than the actual due date. I have lost many points in this course to simply forgetting to do the assignment on time. Had I done this, even when I forgot, I would have had two days of "insurance" to still do the assignment in. I would also make sure to take advantage of every extra credit opportunity possible. Every point means a lot in a class only worth 100 points. Doing the assignments alone will foster that entrepreneurial mindset that they're looking for. Every time you miss an assignment, you will feel out of the loop when you comment on someone's post for an assignment that you have not completed. You will have a hard time relating.
Hey Abraham,
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with you about seeing my progress improving with every elevator pitch I gave. At first I was scared of doing the elevator pitch yet after the second time filming it got so much easier to pitch. With the lack of exams this class had it sure did make up for it with all the assignments. So, I definitely agree with you that students need to realize that this class has a bigger workload because of that. For future students to succeed in this class they will have to dedicate enough time for each assignment and plan ahead.
Overall keep you the great work and good luck with your business ventures. Oh yeah, feel free to leave some feedback on my post.
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Hi Abraham,
ReplyDeleteI like the way you included the questions from the assignment within your blog post. It made the post easier to read, and it also helps readers to know which questions you are answering specifically. I agree also that I was able to see progress with each elevator pitch I made. I also felt more and more comfortable with interviewing customers throughout the course. I also agree that students need to focus on their assignments because this class does not have many points available.
Check out my blog post if you want!
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Hi I so agree with you about the agenda. There are tons of assignments and you think that because there is no test that the class is going to be easy. It is so much work for just 100 points but if you stay on track then I would have done way better myself. I also like the fact that you have developed the mindset of an entrepreneur. That is the first step in becoming one. Great work
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