Josie's Blog

Forming an Opportunity Belief One of the bigger problems I have noticed are the durability of phone chargers, such as Apple chargers, not being able to last very long without breaking. This problem leaves people with inconveniences by not being able to charger their phones. This can become a big problem today because many people depend on their phones for many things including email, gps, and regular communication like calling or texting. Chargers now are also susceptible to having a short in them and not letting a phone continuously charge. These issues can keep happening as long the chargers are being made less durable with cheaper materials. I randomly selected people on the UF campus to interview about the quality of their chargers, I began to see their similarities in their opinions. One of them has had to purchase multiple chargers and become tired of it because the chargers can be expensive and has had them break over only a short period of time. The other two people th...

Entrepreneurship Story When I was younger I was only exposed to a small part of entrepreneurship. During the summer months my younger sister and I would always want to have spending money for during the week while our parents were working. Both parents thought we should have our own money to spend and save but they were not going to give it to us. We had to figure out a way to make our own money. We lived on our farm for most of the summer, so we decided to plant a giant field of corn. They agreed to help us and pay the initial spending costs to plant the corn. My sister and I were responsible for picking the corn from the field, cleaning it, counting it, and bagging all of it at the day. We told people throughout the town that we were selling the corn and took a count of how many bags we would need for that day. Then, our mom would drive us out to our farm and we would start our day and brings the filled bags and give them to our customers the next morning.   My sister and I ...