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Assignment 6: Identifying Opportunities in Economic & Regulatory Trends

Economic Trends United States GDP Growth Rate Increasing Economic Outlook The fact that the GDP is increasing cause me to believe that it creates opportunities for people that want to start their own business. The increase of the GDP means that the country is being more productive economically. Which hopefully would lead to more opportunities for people to create their own businesses. Anyone who has ambition to create or start up their own business would be a customer to this opportunity. I would say considering that it is such a broad opportunity that it would be very easy for people to exploit. I think other people may not look realize this opportunity because they don't understand that the GDP Growth Rate has to do with the market value of all goods and services in a country. Introduction of UltraFico Scores Fico.com I believe that the introduction of the UltraFico will create opportunities for people because this credit score takes into account responsible spen...

Assignment 5: Identifying Local Opportunities

Greetings Everyone, Today we are looking at problems in the Leon Country Area. For those of you who don't know that is around Tallahassee here in Florida, it also includes Woodville and is right next to Wakulla county. 1. Our Opinion: Tallahassee must confront problems honestly. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/editorials/2015/05/08/opinion-tallahassee-must-confront-problems-honestly/26978689/ This article is discussing the fact that poor people in Leon county have a very dim chance of moving up the economic ladder. The main focus of the text is trying to point out that our different organizations, such as the school system, churches, businesses, and government, are not working as they should be. The fact that these sections of our society need to admit that things are not working, so that we can make a change. The problem here is that the way we are running things needs to change. This problem is effecting our low income families. 2. Wakulla County is more than t...

Assignment 4: Forming an Opportunity Belief

I believe that we have an unmet need in the fact that there are math class and platform that require you to be able to write symbols like pi to answer questions or write out equation, but the everyday computer does not always us to accomplish this task. I will admit that these programs usually have some sort of clickable section to write these needed symbols, but it is not efficient and can throw of what you are doing when you have to click though a bunch of taps to find what you are looking for. #1: Young Female College Student  Have you ever done math online? yes in the sense of homework.   When did you do this? seven years ago What was the program you used?  something through TTC What level of math where you doing? college algebra  Did you find that you would lose the place you where at in whatever problem you were working because you had to switch between typing and clicking? No, because the interface only supplied the variables or sym...

Assignment 3: My Entrepreneurship Story

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My first experience with entrepreneurship was summer semester of 2018 when I enrolled in the class IDS1359: Creativity-in-Action. This class had students come together in groups and create a business around a specific concept. For our year it was about biodiversity; how can we preserve or help improve biodiversity. My group came up with the company Leafy Lifestyles. Our company focuses on using invasive species to create products for the populous. Part of the assignment was to present our idea to judges at Catalyst, a science fair style competition. We created a prototype air filter our of paper mulberry and pitched our company to the people and judges attending. WE actually managed to win the category of "The Power of Design". It wasn't always fun, but I am really proud of what we came together and presented. I am taking Ent3003 because my minor requires it, but I am hoping that I can learn from this class as much as I learn form my last one. I want this class to exp...

Assignment 2: Bug List

1. The headphone jack on the new iPhone. The fact that there is not one, instead there is an adapter that plugs into the charging port. Why it exists: It allows the company to have its own unique feature, as no other phone makers are dong this. It also makes the company money as they now have another piece of material that if it brakes or is lost, people then have to buy a new one. 2. The lack of individual study space within Library West. Why it exists: It is a very popular library and is located really close to the center of campus. The library also focuses on having special room that are for group projects, which cuts down on space for individual places to study. 3. Getting gum stuck to your shoe. Why it exists: The small pieces of paper that if comes with can be easily lost, and some companies have turned away from paper wrappers all together. Also gum is suppose to be biodegradable. 4. The fact that you can not pay for ga...

Just Getting Started

Greetings Everyone to My ENT3003 blog! My name is Kaitlyn Haley, but I usually go by Kaitie. This blog is for my Principle of Entrepreneurship class at the University of Florida. So wish me luck as this blog tracks my progress through the course.