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.