Week 15 Reflection

Boosting capitalism is something that this chapter really focuses on. The pyramid companies have to deal with was a main section of this chapter. Learning how to build a solid infrastructure inside your company is something that helps build a successful one. Making sure your approach is oriented torwards making money and profiting is what I took away from this chapter. How can I go about hiring goal and money driven people? What do I need to do to get rid of existing workers who don't have that mindset.

Final Reflection

What I have learned from entrepreneurship is that it is important to be prompt with what you are doing. From turning assignments in at 9 pm to making sure you have all of your priorities lined up up when venturing into the business world. I have learned that is important to take peer advice into your progress.

I hope to take this class and what I have learned into my own career path. I am going to need to be diligent and efficient in my work.

Elevator pitch 2

Venture Concept No. 2

Well after learning from what other have had to say about my concept I have made some adjustments. What I have learned is that I need to make my application as user friendly as possible. I need to ensure that my application does a good job providing insight to those who want to go out to bars and would be willing to use my application on a regular basis.

I didn't completely change my venture concept I just managed to twerk it. I think being an entrepreneur means learning to make adjustments not completely retooling what I have done to this point because I have been successful.

Week 14 Summary

Being social as an entrepreneur is something is very vital. When starting a business or even a corporate business it is important to be creative in what you do. You must think of tactics and techniques that help separate yourself from others in the field. Chapters 3 and 4 are what really helped me learn this. I would like to ask the author what types of social media can help a business? what strives in that aspect should I be making? When and how is a good time to reach potential customers over social media?

Google Gold

1) A discussion of your general approach and strategy to search engine optimiation (SEO). What were some of the activities you did for each blog post to pursue SEO? 

I think that being aggressive in your ability to strategize as an entrepreneur is key and I did that in pursuing my SEO.

2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?

Keywords are something that attracts the audience. How did you differ yourself? What words make you accessible on google. Simple yet effective. 

3) How did you use social media to enhance your SEO efforts? What your your surprises or general impression of using social media to improve your blog's profile? Was social media generally receptive of your blog, or did it get ignored?

My social media is strong. I use solid hashtags to reach people I wanted to. I think twitter was a huge part of my growth and I received good feedback in response to my tweets. 

4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?

I had a few tweets go viral. We had advertisements on twitter and promotions that leaked out and became successful on social media. 

5) Finally, did you make it to the first page of Google results for your keywords? If not, what page of results did you make it to?

I have not, I think I can continue to strive for that however. Using more tags can get me from page 4 to page 1 in no time. 

Very Short Interview 2

Phone interview:

What I learned from Baxter Bramblett the founder of Reel it Up is that it takes guts to become and entrepreneur but it is something we must be willing to accept. We must take the risk knowing that our product may not be successful. We must have full confidence in ourselves from the get go. Baxter did that and is a very successful man in the industry.

From the first interview until now I am starting to see myself more and more in him. I am gaining the confidence in my product and want to keep working towards my goal to become more like him.

13 Reading Reflection

In chapter 14 I learned right off the bat that each individual business is different and needs to be handled and analyzed in a special manner. If you are running a large business there isn't a need to compare or analyze what you are doing with smaller ones and vice versa. I learned how small businesses and ventures can have a tight reign on their employees because they don't have to deal with larger scale issues big businesses do.

Also finding out what it takes to begin your venture was a huge part in this weeks reading. Whether it is getting the costs to start your business, or it is gathering information to a target demographic this chapter made sure that entrepreneurs are focused and can bullet point information they need to start a successful business. I can take a lot from this weeks reading away. I now know what it takes and what I'm going to have to do to analyze my venture from the ground up.

Celebrating Failure

There have been a couple times struggling with getting peoples in depth information on if they would actually use this app. Since the application is mainly targeting one group of people I had to find others to help me get the job done and deciding what demographic to approach was difficult.

What I learned is that it is important to have a step by step plan on what you want to ask customers to try and extract from them. Knowing your market as well as your demographic is something that is important when creating a brand.

Failure is something that we need to embrace. We are all going to fall at some points but we need to make a conscious decision on how many times we get. It builds us and makes us stronger in any endeavor that we choose to participate in.

Exit Strategy

My exit strategy is going to be based on the success that I have. If my business does well in the first few years I will be selling it for a profit.

This is my strategy because I want to move on to new ventures and I will have an unlimited amount of funds to do so.

It hasn't effected my strategy and hasn't effected how motivated I am to make this a successful venture. 

The Next Step

Old Market: The old market is the top three videos and I can tell you that these college students are excited about the application. They want something simple and easy to use since they are college kids. They also want the application to have promotions to get them to use it more.

New Market: The bottom three video are a mix of younger and highschool kids. They are excited because they will want the app next year when they are legal to go to the bar. They want it to be instructional so they know what bars to go to. They are excited about the opportunity to use this new app next year.

What's next: I think promotional placement is what's next. Having bars and bartenders relays specials and deals to us while we are editing the app is huge. It will get more people to the bars and using the app when they know the deals. It will also keep bars on there toes wanting us to promote then. 

Week 12 Reflection

Finding economic growth comes from particular strategy. The better you plan the faster you will see economic growth with your company. Chapter 13 talks about how preparation can benefit you in all aspects on entrepreneurship. It is hard to blindly go into something no matter what you are doing entrepreneurship or now. Having a gameplan is the best way to have success. The stages of success are something that this chapter really keys in on as well. The focus of economic growth alongside growth stage is what I took away from the most from this chapter. The things that I want to know are more specifics on planning strategies. Why is growth stage so vital and if that fails how can we bounce back?