When I was a little kid, my dad always told me about entrepreneurship. He started an ice cone business and some Massage Envy locations as well. I told myself from that point on that I never wanted to work for anybody else. It wasn’t until freshman year of college that I finally had the time and the opportunity to think of a business worthy idea. I came up with two main ones and then told my dad when I came home for winter break. He told me that the first one wasn’t something I could patent, but the second one was. We went forward and got the patent, and then from that point on, I made the business plan and coordinated all of the manufacturers. We had to get a FDA approved kitchen and then we manufactured 1700 ourselves. We used these as the beta testers for our control group. Once we realized people liked them, we started selling, but we realized we needed more help. We happened to run into the friend of a famous CEO in our industry and this lead us to eventually having the opportunity to pitch to him. My business partner and I have perfected our business plan and at this time, we are in the final stages of pitching. Hopefully it will be this week.
I hope to get a sense of creativity from this class. I want to feel as though I’m really thinking about problem solving and infusing my own passions as well. There’s so many problems in the world, that we can’t fix them all, but we can fix the ones we choose. We choose them because we hold sentimental value with some of them, and if I’m able to make a change with those, then I’ll be happy. I want to leave the earth a better place than I found it and I hope this class can help with that.
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