30A – Final Reflection:

·      Some of the most fun assignments for this class were the reading assignments. I really enjoyed getting an opportunity to read about some very accomplished entrepreneurs and I even applied some of their aspects of motivation into my everyday life. I’m usually not much of a reader and without being required to read I probably wouldn’t have read any of the books on that list, however, I learned a lot of neat information regarding some cool people.

o   I really didn’t enjoy interviewing people because sometimes it was difficult to find enough people or people that were well versed in the fields in which I needed information. But nonetheless, I was able to learn a lot of things from doing so.

·      I think the most formative exercises were probably the venture concepts. It was really cool to have one big assignment that really tied everything together and made you able to see all of your work in a finished product (in terms of this class). Going back and reading my venture concept again and fixing it up a little in the second time around made me see all of the cool things I had put together along the way throughout the course of this semester.

·      I definitely think that this course has made me look for opportunities in situations. I’ll often find myself thinking about how something is inefficient or annoying to me and then I’ll start to think about ways that that could be fixed. Often times nothing pops in my head but I consider that a small failure and I’ve realized that you keep on failing over and over until you eventually succeed. My success could one day realizing a very open opportunity in which I could start a very successful venture.

·      I think that it’s very important to take this course seriously because it all builds on each other and if you slack off on some of the beginning assignments you can find it hard to create new information on top of a lousy base. I also recommend doing every assignment for the same reasons. Often times the assignments are directly correlated to assignments from week’s past and if you don’t complete them then you’ll have nothing to base your future assignments off.