What sticks out to me the most as a formative experience is getting all of the many, many interviews necessary to do the assignments in the class each week. I really thought it would be a lot easier to find this many people, but I was ultimately wrong. What I’ve taken away is that in order to really get an idea of how people will accept your business idea, you need to do a lot of work and actually talk to them. A lot of them. My proudest accomplishment during this class was hearing from professionals in areas that I would need to work with in the development of my product that it was a good idea and had a lot of real world potential.
I guess I feel like I have more skills in entrepreneurship because I’ve put them to use in this class, but I don’t really see myself as much more of an entrepreneur than I did at the beginning.
One recommendation I’d make to the students venturing onto this path would be to prepare yourself for all kinds of questions from interviewees, both negative and positive, when putting your idea out there. You want to seem like you know what you’re talking about…even if you don’t. It’s all about confidence and preparation. To perform best in this course, just do the assignments early in the week, so you don’t have to worry about scrambling to find people to interview last minute.
Hi Emma! I definitely agree with you about the abundant of interviews we had to conduct throughout the semester. For me, it was difficult because I did not have a big network of people that was helpful to my business concept and anyone who could relate to. Having to do those assignments have definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone and do things I normally would not do. And, conducting interviews are hard, so preparation is important to perform best in this course.
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