Extra Feb Blog post

 Aside from the fact that it is the shortest month of the year, February passed by really fast. I was busy every single day with school work, mentorship, and college work. I had very few breathers that fortunately helped me survive the monstrous wave of work I had. I unfortunately had to be at a very sad ceremony that made me loose a bit of focus around mid February. But my huge effort to try to make it not affect me mentally helped me a lot. With so many things on my plate, I must admit, was stressed out for a large portion of the month. Working many late nights to make sure I did not miss a deadline was worth the while because it allows me get the job done.

Now I am ready for more work and am excited for the upcoming month. I am looking forward to this month which is one of my favorite months of the year and am ready to get out to the battlefield.
 

Answer 2

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1.  What is your EQ?

How best can an entrepreneur turn his startup into a viable company?2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

An entrepreneur can best turn his startup into a viable company by following and implementing the customer development process.3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

An entrepreneur can best turn his start up into a viable company my following and implementing the business model canvas.4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

-Large successful companies use the business model canvas. 

      -Google, Netflix and Lego are a few examples of those who use the business model canvas.

-The business model canvas covers ever aspect a startup needs to consider.

For example the bmc allows you to analyze and figure out who your target audience for your product or service.

-It is okay to mess up when creating  a business model canvas.

- Google has a 3in stack of business model canvases that they contemplate because they know all those wrong hypothesis lead to the right one they use today. 

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

The business model generation book best supports my answer because it analyzes every section that is in the business model canvas.6.  What other source supports your answer?

I took an entrepreneurahip class where we spent the vast majority of class analysing the business model canvas.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

After a few months of research I found out that proper planning is one of the most if not the most important thing to do when launching a start up.  

 

On Friday, 2/20 for Advisory #2, you will be presenting what you have from this blog.  The presentation is more like a share-out and should not last longer than 2 minutes. You don't need a visual, and you should not read what you have written.  

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For my 30 hours I will be launching my Startup. There are many products and services I can choose from, therefore, I will be launching an eCommerce website. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will have proof all of the work that will be done. I will prove my work by showing and describing every step of the way. Most importantly I will show all of my progress when the component is due.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

I will learn first hand if my assumptions of how to launch a Startup are true or false. I will also experience first hand all of the things an Entrepreneur lives when launching an Startup.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
Done.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, _________Ronny_Rodriguez______________, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34hours and 40min my of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Trayan Kushev, Ph.D.
   Professor of Entrepreneurship
  Management & Human Resources Department
  College of Business Administration
  California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  Office: 164-3057 | Phone: 909-869-5328 | Email: tnkushev@csupomona.edu
  
  
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• Done
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
•  For my individual component I took an Entrepreneurship course at CSU Pomona.
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
• Every week, twice a week for an 1 hour and 50min I learned about how Entrepreneurs should embark a new business.  This college course truly showed me key points I implemented and continue to implement on my senior project.  
• For this course, the required textbook was Business Model Generation.
 


• The Course was held in CSU Pomona business building. 

•  I want to keep my transcript private, but if you want to see it, I will gladly show it to you in person. 
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• This component gave me a new paradigm of how a Startup should be launched.  I must say, this component greatly impacted the foundation of my topic. 
• Before this component I had no idea what the business model canvas was, and thought that the starting point in a start up was the business plan.Now I know that my assumptions were wrong and learned that business is initiated differently. 
• I was able to learn and analyze every single section of the business model canvas. 
• The business model canvas is derived from 9 essential sections.
• This component helped me network and get to other sources that are extremely valuable.
• I was introduced other sources that make up a mammoth part of my foundation.
• The book "Owners Startup Manual" is the book that showed me the customer development process.
• The book "Lean Startup" showed me  examples of successful companies who follow the Business Model Canvas.

Extra Post

January was quite the ride. I was under lots of stress and pressure because of inconveniences that crossed my road. On the positive side, I was able to prepare myself for lesson 2 and had fun doing it. I am thankful that we get the opportunity to do presentations because it prepares us for the future. I feel that ,by doing presentations, we get a head start from the rest of our generation.
 

 At my mentorship, I was given the opportunity to undertake a project by myself. I had to inspect and come up with new ideas to improve the product. I am currently working on looking for other products in the market similar to the one I am working on, and find the way to make my product better. This is nerve racking and exciting because I am experiencing what it feels like to be a true entrepreneur.