strengths
- sales experience. I used to work for The News Tribune so I know how to communicate and close a sale.
- communication skills. As stated before I have experience speaking with people from my sales job as well as my current job at the convenient store at UWT.
- Always have ideas to throw out there.
- Dependable always on time
weakness
- without someone pushing me or a due date to look forward to I easily lose focus.
- without a set schedule or focus I lose motivation.
- without a schedule or motivation I procrastinate.
- have no idea or experience of starting a business.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Ron class presentation
I didn't know what to expect when I came in for class. The presentation was pretty overwhelming. A lot of information was thrown around although a lot of the information was a slight review on what was covered in class. As I took notes on what he was presenting about thoughts began to pour into my head. A lot of questions that I had were answered such as where to find employees how to find funds and how to protect your ideas. I think that presentation was beneficial to me however because I did not actually start writing my business plan I didn't have that many questions. Overall I learned a lot more from the questions and answer portion of class versus the power point. I will probably write more as the day goes on but for now I have to eat lunch
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
5 ideas
1. Inferred keyboard in cell phone
I thought of this idea when I was trying to write this blog entry on my cell phone. Long story short it sucked. Punctuation was horrible because I had to go through multiple menus to put in parenthesis and other punctuation marks to express my frustration in using a touch screen QWERTY keyboard. The main problem is that cellphones are small therefore the touchscreen keyboards on them are small and many keys you find on a keyboard cannot be included. In the end it took me about 20 minutes to write half a paragraph. I tried to post and somehow closed the browser on my cellphone without hitting "post" on blogger.
This idea will require such as the picture below and will be integrated within a phone.
This will solve the problem of frustrating on screen keyboards and create a nice alternative. A journalist can type up his story with a full sized infrared keyboard with the same phone he uses to set up an interview with another client. A student can type up his/her blog before class without the frustrations of going through sub menus for punctuations.
2.USB powered credit card machine
As we all know people are carrying less and less cash in their pockets. In my group of friends we use nothing but debit/credit cards and carry almost no cash. I am lucky to even have 5 dollars in my wallet. Therefore my second idea would be integrating credit cards into existing technologies. We already know that soda machines now take cards. To make things easier we can have a USB credit card machine. Lets say I want to buy something from Ebay. I click by now and then plug in my USB Powered credit card machine to pay for the goods. This eliminates the use of Paypal. I would not need to wait 3 days for my money to transfer from my bank account to my Paypal account. Casinos will also benefit with this by having slot machines accept credit cards. Many people like myself will loose all the money and wish that I always brought more.
3. Iphone, android app. Voice Movie finder.
Certain phones or services have the ability to identify songs and gives the consumers the ability to buy the song. So if you don't know the song a portion of it can be played and the phone will recognize the song and provide the artist and title. My idea is a movie version of this. One would have to recite a line or catch phrase from a movie into their phone and the name of the movie or show will pop up and the consumer will be given the option to purchase that clip, show, and or movie.
4. PDF highlighter.
I just want to say that I hate PDF files. At UWT much of the reading is in PDF format which can't be highlighted or written on digitally. Therefore I am unable to take small notes or make sense of what I am reading. The solution to this is to print out pages and pages of E reserves and then highlighting and marking the physical copies. There should be a modified version of the Windows 7 snippet tool. One that does not need to cut and save just to highlight a certain portion of a PDF file.
5. Touch charge for business offices and school desks
This is a much needed idea that needs to be put into action. Many times in class my laptop would die and that would be the end of my internet brow...err I mean note taking in class. These plates should be integrated in all classrooms so that electronics such as laptops and phones can stay charged without using power outlets that are too far away. It will reduce clutter in the room as well as prevent people tripping on your power cord.
I thought of this idea when I was trying to write this blog entry on my cell phone. Long story short it sucked. Punctuation was horrible because I had to go through multiple menus to put in parenthesis and other punctuation marks to express my frustration in using a touch screen QWERTY keyboard. The main problem is that cellphones are small therefore the touchscreen keyboards on them are small and many keys you find on a keyboard cannot be included. In the end it took me about 20 minutes to write half a paragraph. I tried to post and somehow closed the browser on my cellphone without hitting "post" on blogger.
This idea will require such as the picture below and will be integrated within a phone.
This will solve the problem of frustrating on screen keyboards and create a nice alternative. A journalist can type up his story with a full sized infrared keyboard with the same phone he uses to set up an interview with another client. A student can type up his/her blog before class without the frustrations of going through sub menus for punctuations.
2.USB powered credit card machine
As we all know people are carrying less and less cash in their pockets. In my group of friends we use nothing but debit/credit cards and carry almost no cash. I am lucky to even have 5 dollars in my wallet. Therefore my second idea would be integrating credit cards into existing technologies. We already know that soda machines now take cards. To make things easier we can have a USB credit card machine. Lets say I want to buy something from Ebay. I click by now and then plug in my USB Powered credit card machine to pay for the goods. This eliminates the use of Paypal. I would not need to wait 3 days for my money to transfer from my bank account to my Paypal account. Casinos will also benefit with this by having slot machines accept credit cards. Many people like myself will loose all the money and wish that I always brought more.
3. Iphone, android app. Voice Movie finder.
Certain phones or services have the ability to identify songs and gives the consumers the ability to buy the song. So if you don't know the song a portion of it can be played and the phone will recognize the song and provide the artist and title. My idea is a movie version of this. One would have to recite a line or catch phrase from a movie into their phone and the name of the movie or show will pop up and the consumer will be given the option to purchase that clip, show, and or movie.
4. PDF highlighter.
I just want to say that I hate PDF files. At UWT much of the reading is in PDF format which can't be highlighted or written on digitally. Therefore I am unable to take small notes or make sense of what I am reading. The solution to this is to print out pages and pages of E reserves and then highlighting and marking the physical copies. There should be a modified version of the Windows 7 snippet tool. One that does not need to cut and save just to highlight a certain portion of a PDF file.
5. Touch charge for business offices and school desks
This is a much needed idea that needs to be put into action. Many times in class my laptop would die and that would be the end of my internet brow...err I mean note taking in class. These plates should be integrated in all classrooms so that electronics such as laptops and phones can stay charged without using power outlets that are too far away. It will reduce clutter in the room as well as prevent people tripping on your power cord.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Entrepreneurship
While reading the first page of "The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook," the five facts two of them immediately popped out at me. "Less then 1 percent of business plans get funding," "60 percent of companies funded go bankrupt." Being someone that is dreams about starting a real business, reading those two facts brought me back to reality.
Because I am just a broke college student with a low paying job at school I always looked for different ways to earn money. What is most profitable to me at the moment is buying goods such as electronics and car parts off sites such as Craigslist or Honda-Tech and reselling on Ebay. Prices for goods are much lower on Craigslist and Honda-Tech forums because of two reasons. People are in desperate need of money for other things so they sell what they feel is no longer needed. Secondly meeting with a seller I can negotiate "hustle" for a lower price.
The reason I bring this up is because I thought that business was just that simple. I felt that what I have been doing is business and for me to obtain more profits I would just have to have more money to buy and sell at a larger scale.
In the end of the article a few lines brought my confidence back. "Entrepreneurs always have passion. Entrepreneurs live and breathe their business enterprises." "To understand the odds against success and still forge ahead, knowing that many battles will be lost along the way, requires a certain amount of fearlessness." I agree completely with this line. Yes the odds are against me but I am passionate about what I do. I enjoy hunting for deals and I enjoy the hustle. I like selling things to people and convincing them that they need it.
Because I am just a broke college student with a low paying job at school I always looked for different ways to earn money. What is most profitable to me at the moment is buying goods such as electronics and car parts off sites such as Craigslist or Honda-Tech and reselling on Ebay. Prices for goods are much lower on Craigslist and Honda-Tech forums because of two reasons. People are in desperate need of money for other things so they sell what they feel is no longer needed. Secondly meeting with a seller I can negotiate "hustle" for a lower price.
The reason I bring this up is because I thought that business was just that simple. I felt that what I have been doing is business and for me to obtain more profits I would just have to have more money to buy and sell at a larger scale.
In the end of the article a few lines brought my confidence back. "Entrepreneurs always have passion. Entrepreneurs live and breathe their business enterprises." "To understand the odds against success and still forge ahead, knowing that many battles will be lost along the way, requires a certain amount of fearlessness." I agree completely with this line. Yes the odds are against me but I am passionate about what I do. I enjoy hunting for deals and I enjoy the hustle. I like selling things to people and convincing them that they need it.
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