My Entrepreneurship Story - Week 2

The first time I was really exposed to entrepreneurship was when I was about 9 years old. My friends lived on a golf course, which was separated from their yards by a pond.  Every day we hung out we would go in the yard to try and find a few golf balls, so slowly we collected enough golf balls to fill entire 5-10 gallon buckets.  One day we were all riding bikes and one of the neighbors came out on a brand new bike, complete with pegs on both wheels.  Instantly we knew we all wanted to get pegs too but our parents didn’t see the point in spending money on something that essentially makes your bike more dangerous.  That’s when we put on our entrepreneurial hats and saw that we had an abundance of golf balls, why not try to sell them? We sold three buckets for 30 dollars on the side of the golf-cart path and we soon found ourselves in possession of a whole 90 dollars; we were the richest kids on the block. We bought our pegs and cruised the streets of our neighborhood in style until one day one of my pegs got stuck in my friend’s wheel.  That’s one of the moments we realized, “maybe our parents are smarter than we are.”

The main reason I took this class is because I know that in order to one day be able to open my own business, I will need to fully understand what it means to be an entrepreneur.  I hope to be able to talk to entrepreneurs who have already started their businesses and hear about their experiences; what to do and what not to do.  I am also excited about the prospect of working with other students who share an entrepreneurial mindset, as it is so common to see students become less and less willing to take risks in college.