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.