3A – Your Entrepreneurship Story

One thing my dad has always thought me was to always think with a entrepreneur mindset, to never settle by simply working for someone else.

I remember a time when I was around 10 years old and my father used to work by creating events to advertise politicians in our city. Something happened and he lost a contract he had been counting on. He then decided he needed to do something so compensate that contract that was lost. 

He then had an idea of making a few customized items to sell to businesses, we purchased the necessary parts and starting making them. Amount the items that we sold the most was a wall clock. We would purchase the glass from a store near our house, print the image (clock with the customer's logo on it), purchase the three pointers (hour, minute and seconds) along with the clock motor from a store in the downtown area of our city and we would make these wall clocks at home.

We did not make a fortune, but it was enough to get us through that tough time.

Following my father's teachings, even though I have a main job, I also have a consulting company where I provide consulting services for other small companies. The consulting services I provide are mainly in: Processes Optimizations and Government regulations (Federal and State) on cosmetics and over-the-counter manufacturing.

I enrolled for this class as entrepreneurship and business is literally a passion in my life, it something I simply love and I can't get enough of it. While most students might want to take a break from studying between college semesters, all I wanted to do this last break (between Summer and Fall) was to take Lynda courses on "How to Become a Six Sigma Black Belt" and read business books.

I have had multiple business ideas on all kinds of fields and besides my consulting company I also have a cosmetics brand, however that has not grown as fast as I would like.

I hope that through this class I will be able to learn to think more analytically towards the process of entrepreneurship and how I can apply that to the business ideas I have.