My Entrepreneurship Story

A few years ago, my parents embarked on their own entrepreneurship journey, and I was right there along side them for the ride. It had always been a dream of my dad to open up a surf shop, so eventually he decided to stop waiting and to act. Him and I visited a few potential locations before decided on where to open shop. Throughout the process I helped to decorate the store and to bring in the inventory that would eventually be sold to the consumers. I even worked for the shop for the first two summers it was open before getting another job. This itself is one of the main reasons on which I enrolled in ENT 3003, as this first hand account of the opening and day to day operations of a shop impacted me greatly. I am hoping to get out of this class a more professional and adult understanding of how a business works, and how the transformation from idea into action takes place. A more thorough and in depth understanding of an entrepreneurship is what I hope to take away from this class.