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28A – Exit Strategy 1.      My exit strategy for my venture would be the choice of eventually selling the venture after 5 years for a return. 2.      This strategy was most appealing to me for two reasons. The first being that I would eventually start a new venture to create and grow. The second being that I would eventually be out of touch with my most targeted audience and user or my product. I would not want to continue to create a product for a market that was not what was needed. In just a couple of years, I would lose touch with what college campuses need once I graduate college. This diminishes the strong aspect of my personal perspective and why the venture was originally created. 3.      This type of exit strategy definitely influence how I would want to develop and run the business in the future. The push for building a good reputation through successful produ...

27A - Reading Reflection No.3 During my reading of Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash, the author mentions pivotal moments in her life and explains how she was able to gain the courage to deal with any obstacle she had faced. She also talked immensely about being your true self and following your dreams, no matter the obstacles. You could definitely say Mary Kay Ash had a leader mindset and wanted to empower many women on her journey of finding her true self and helping others do the same.   I was surprised at how much this book made me reflect on my own life and how I was living day to day. It’s inspiring to see that one small change in a person’s life can have a huge impact on the rest of their lives.    

26A- Celebrating Failure               Failure can be hard for everyone and some handle it better than others. I personally do not like failure, and I get really frustrated when I don’t succeed. The most recent failure experience has been in the last two weeks. I am on the softball team and we work out at least 2 days a week during our season (which is now during the spring). Before we lift, we do fundamental drills like the speed ladder. Last week, we were doing our morning speed ladder drills and I couldn’t do what I needed to do to complete the drills. It was so hard for me to get my foot work right and it was frustrating me. I am not a person that was not naturally blessed with a lot of speed, so I take a lot of consideration to make sure my foot work is right before I speed up. This got to me even more because I have done these drills thousands of times correctly backwards and forwards up and down a...