Final reflection

I think my most informative experience was the Celebrating Failure assignment. While there wasn’t much research involved in creating the assignment it really does make you think about how you can accept and interpret failure. Its something that everyone goes through, however depending on how you take your failures will determine if you can be successful or not. I think the thing I am most proud of accomplishing is the venture concept assignments and all the attributing assignment that went along with it. This experience, I think, encourages students to think outside the box and develop a real concept for a potential business or venture. It makes you think about all the things that go into a venture if one was to actually start up and do something with their idea. While progressing through the course I believe that I have developed more of an entrepreneurial mindset through the lectures as well as through the assignments. I think that the assignments encourage students to think more like entrepreneurs and see more opportunities in the real world. The recommendation I would make to students who are going to journey down this path is to never stop learning. While this course does a good job at introducing the principles of entrepreneurship there is an endless amount of resources out there that will help students learn more about in-depth parts of starting businesses and how to become successful. To perform best in this course, I would say to keep up with the assignments. While most aren’t difficult, if you wait until the last minute you can definitely run out of time to turn them in. To further foster the mindset, I would suggest getting out in the world and looking for opportunities where things can be improved. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see ways to make peoples lives easier, all you have to do is look hard enough and recognize opportunities.