13A

1.

What surprised you the most?

The thing that surprised me the most about Elon Musk is how dedicated he is to his companies. There were many occasions that he has slept in the tesla factory to be there if there were any problems that needed to be addressed immediately.

What about the entrepreneur did you most admire?

The thing I admire most is his ambition. He is always pushing the boundary with his ideas and innovating along the way.

Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about it?

Yes, Elon Musk encountered adversity and failure on many occasions such as the model x falcon wing doors not working properly and delaying the cars release by an entire year and also the falcon landing that failed and exploded many times. He was able to solve these issues by constantly trying new approaches to fixing the problem as well as receiving help from the engineers around him.

 

2. What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited?

I noticed all these entrepreneurship competencies

Initiative.

Systematic planning.

Creativity and innovation.

Risk taking and Risk Management.

Problem solving.

Persistence.

Quality performance.

Information management.

 

3. Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

I personally thought the reading was very clear and don’t recall anything confusing me.

14A

1. In order to be successful in this course you must exhibit certain behaviors. This course mainly requires you to be disciplined. Every week you need to remember to do your assignments and try not to leave it until the day it is due every week as I have done. Another behavior you need to develop would be the ability to think differently to set you apart as an entrepreneur. This allows you to have creative answers, good ideas about business opportunities, and how to act on your ideas.
2. I can not speak about this portion as I have not developed a tenacious attitude towards course work for this entrepreneurship course. For the pitch video assignment, I read it and then decided it was too much work to get done in the short time I had left to get it done. This is why I can not speak about this.
3. Three tips to take this course:

Leave time to generate ideas before completing the assignment

Stay disciplined on watching lectures and doing assignments

Develop a tenacious mindset anyway you think you can for this course

12A

For this assignment I was unable to interview people as I have been sick all week.

If I did interview people I’d imagine many small business owners would be aware of the need of IT services for their business. I believe many small business owners have looked into setting up many of the services I’d offer to do and have not gotten around to it or have Googled it and determined they cannot or do not want to do it themselves. Most of what I offer is easily found online but reading instructions and actually being able to perform many of the tasks are two different things. Therefore, I’m sure many business owners are aware of the need in this field.

11A

1.    Who am I? I am Matthew Ilich from Long Island, New York. My skills range from handyman to boat mechanic to IT guy. Anything hands on with the problem I enjoy, problem solving on the spot. Along with my affinity to problem solve, I have always loved tinkering with computers and am a self-taught IT guy. I have worked many summers as an IT intern for a local firm back at home doing local IT support services. My aspirations include starting a small IT firm for local business to use and growing my small business idea into a thriving one.

2.    I am offering a variety of services to small business to allow them to be in the modern age and help them grow. Services ranging from simple network setups for customers to use in the store to installing modernized operations equipment and software.

3.    I will be offering this service to anyone in the general are of where I decide to move after I finish school in a couple of months.

4.    Why do they care? Running a small business is a matter of fine margins and modernizing your business is integral to success in these days.

5.    Something that sets me apart from others in this field is that I have been doing this since I was 7 years old for my dad’s business. I did things such as building him a new website to help generate more interest in his products, built him custom desktop computers that allowed him to run the latest versions of cad software’s to sketch product renders in a faster manner for his customers and employees to make dies for. I also setup up his local network with a server for all the employees to be able to access the files from any computer around the office and in the factory. This is what I believe sets me apart from others in this field.