My Entrepreneurship Story (3A)

I am taking this class because I am in the Innovation Academy, an entrepreneurship and creativity cohort and minor here at UF. This program allows us to take Fall off while Spring and Summer are left for classes. I am taking classes this Fall but because of this I spent last Fall interning at a startup. This startup was a local media presence that hosts events and provides informative content about the developing area in which they are based. I was one of six people who worked for the company. I was able to sit down with the owner and brainstorm activities for events and create posts for their social media platforms. Two of the bigger projects I did was start their food page that grew 1300+ followers in 3 months as well as hosted a pop-up event where we notified followers just 24 hours before that we were bringing a trendy Acai food truck to the area which ended up drawing 100+ people out. From this, I learned a lot about planning and proper communication and how just asking may lead you to unexpected places.  It was also very interesting to see how we would also just wing a lot of things which was fun because I had to would have to work in chaotic environments where I had to come up with solutions on the fly. In addition, I also recently started doing photography and have had a few paid shoots thus far.

Bug List (2A)

- glare on computer screens when sitting near a window
WHY: glass is reflective
- getting water on hand or side of bottle when moving hand away from the sensor activated water bottle fountains on campus
WHY: fountain does not sense when water bottle is full
- nail polish chipping
WHY: use fingers a lot
- needing to carry stuff but then my backpack looks massive and like a turtle shell
WHY: layering of pockets vertically
- sweat stains easy on gray t-shirt
WHY: not dark or light enough to not be seen
- nowhere to store sunglasses in backpack if there is no case
WHY: aren't built for it
- losing socks
WHY: small and get buried
- alarm clocks when living with roommates/other people
WHY: loud
- car mechanics charging very high prices for small repairs
WHY: want to make max amount of money
- crumbs getting stuck deep in the crevices of a car seat
WHY: small particles on a sloped surface
- tarnishing of cheap jewelry
WHY: materials are prone to it
- straws not being properly recycled
WHY: processing plants do not have the capabilities of recycling such small pieces of material
- shoelaces getting wet
WHY: walk in puddle or rain
- shoelaces coming untied
WHY: not tied tight enough or are pulled
- lack of outlets
WHY: demand is greater than supply
- carrying around Tupperware after you have ate everything out of it
WHY: it is reusable so you are not going to throw it away
- not having a pen/pencil on me when I need one
WHY: no practical way to carry it
- lack of cleaning in public restrooms
WHY: not being cleaned properly/ at all
- bulkiness of carrying around chap stick
WHY: contain large amounts of product
- sunglasses getting scratched
WHY: delicate material
- hairbands on wrist looking unprofessional
WHY: material they are made of
- outlet's close proximity can limit what can be plugged into them
WHY: shape of plugins and outlets
- crease after bookmarking a page
WHY: paper material does not bounce back to it's original form


Reflection: I did not find coming up with this list as difficult as I expected it to be. I think this is likely because I just moved into a new apartment with new people and it is the start of a new semester. This has caused me to run into a set of new problems. Also, I have a lot of commitments that require me to travel to different places or dress certain ways at different times so what I carry and how I get to each place causes me to run into a variety of problems. A lot of these issues have solutions to them already but I still have them listed because I do not think they are the most optimal. As college students, I also think we notice small problems more easily with these types of environments since we are depending a lot on other people and also have limited budgets when it comes to solving these problems.

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