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1)  OPPORTUNITY My product is an app that matches college students with upperclassmen in their intended or "interested" majors. It will be targeted mainly towards incoming and freshman students at the University of Florida to prevent further major changes and an insight beforehand.  My service aspires to bridge the gap between the curiosity and the unknown. The market will be defined solely on demographics than geographically due to it's portability and available access anywhere. The market would be age driven based on incoming freshman and current freshman ages, 17-18 years of age.  As of right now, customer's aren't satisfied with their questions and above all they aren't solved. Advisors are offered throughout campus however, with the huge ratio of students per advisor, advisors don't get to know their students are much so it's hard to build that connection. This is a huge opportunity, it's picking up where the lack is. Knowing that ...

1.) I plan to branch out the business and partner up with smaller companies that can benefit from advertisement such as intern and employment recruiters looking for students within a specific major. I plan to definitely stay with the business throughout my career. I don't know if I'd pass it to my children, but I'd pass it to whoever is/will show their dedication in wanting to continuously improve a student's academic and personal career.  2.) I selected this strategy because like any choice we make, we can't simply just sell it and let it go. I mean, we can, but is it always the case? I think through this app, it can venture off into many other institutions nationwide and allow more students to incorporate their stories of success and perhaps failure! This failure will only show that there is a continuous room for improvement and immediate changes and a never-ending journey.  3.) It definitely has influenced on how I identify opportunities, specificall...

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Scott Adams Novel 1) One of the main concepts I admired from this biography was that there's no success without the experience of failing. I know it is obvious but it can be a hard concept to understand at the moment of failure.  2) The book and ENT3003 connects through the main drive that's found in entrepreneurs. Through failure and experience, it's what keeps one running and above all, motivates you even more. It's a moment of failure that you have to fall deep down to jump back up harder. This can be seen within our own work and how our opportunity, although holding some setbacks, still holds room for improvement and it's a matter of addressing them and moving forward.  3) If I were to assign an exercise based on this book and class, it'd be having student's having to go out and fail at something on purpose. The reason being is because it's hard to fail, it happens without expecting it a...

1. Just last week, I forgot my lab manual for my lab course for a first after several weeks of routine. 2. I learned that I should stick to my routine of packing the night before! I usually pack my backpack the night before with what I only need. I trusted myself on remembering the next morning which failed. I failed myself! I realized that if there is an opportunity to prep, take it and don't question it.  3. Failure in general is an opportunity to change. If you can acknowledge it then you've already taken the first step. In the past, I've made several mistakes but I've learned to view them as mistakes that needed to happen. For starters, it makes me feel a little better but it also gets me motivated to see where the change needs to happen. This course showed me through the stories of successful entrepreneurs, students, and myself that failure is ok, it happens to everyone, some most hard than others. I think this past semester alone, I've taken more risks ...

What you need to do.   Existing Market.  Step 1:  The next step would be to start recruiting the successful upperclassmen in each major offered at UF.  Step 2:  Axel Rodriguez, Sophomore, Anthropology "I wish this really would exist right now. I switched my major for the third time now and I mean huge changes. I went from Computer Science to Biology on the Nursing track to Anthropology and even then I don't know if this is what I want. I like the classes, they seem cool but I don't know if I'm really into it you know? I think the next step for you is finding the successful students who had that major we may have questions on. What's the point of asking someone who only just takes classes and doesn't do more for their major?"  Justin Cho, Sophomore, Telecommunication Productions "I think you should really look at who these students are, if they're graduate, they may not even bother since they're all living their silicon valley ...

OPPORTUNITY My product is a mobile application for matching students with upperclassmen in prospective majors. This app will be specifically for the incoming students and current students at the University of Florida who feel undecided or want to know more information of specific majors. As many students take college level courses while in high school, they don't know exactly what they would like to pursue so they go straight into the major-focused courses once they declare a major that sounds "nice". My service aspires to bridge the gap between the curiosity and the unknown. The market isn't defined geographically since it is a mobile application, the portability allows access wherever, whenever. Demographically, the market would be defined by age range and experience range such as these students all as incoming freshmen, freshmen, or sophomores, and some juniors (rare case scenarios).  Currently, customers aren't satisfied as many of their questions is ans...