My Entrepreneurship Story

When I was younger, I never really cared for travel nor did I ever imagine I would ever travel outside of Florida. This could possibly be due to the fact that I rarely traveled as a child and I was always told it was “too expensive” so unfortunately, we couldn’t afford to travel. However, after travelling to different parts of the world, I decided that I wanted to become an advocate for other students or people that have the desire to travel, but don’t really know how to get started. My girlfriend and I decided to create an account with Shopify to sell not just travel items, but our story; two poor girls that managed to travel the world. In a matter of hours, our dream turned into a nightmare. We didn’t know what items we were going to sell, and how. We didn’t know anything about drop shipping. And lastly, we didn’t know how to set ourselves apart from all of the other online competition, and we only had a 7-day trial period to figure it all out. Needless to say, we didn’t move forward after that. There were just so many questions that we didn’t know the answer to, and unfortunately, we didn’t have the time to brainstorm as we are both full time employees and part time students. These days, we find ourselves answering some of those questions, but mainly asking new questions as travel is constantly evolving. Although we have been a bit discouraged lately, we are confident that this isn’t the end for us, we just have a bit more to learn. Hopefully everything will work out with time!

               Moreover, I am taking ENT3003 as part of my course requirements for my degree. I must admit however, that this class has been the most interesting class I have taken thus far. I hope that this class will enable me to answer a lot of the questions I currently struggle with in regard to my entrepreneurship story. In addition, I am hoping to discover whether or not entrepreneurship is really for me. My friends always tell me that I haven’t found my niche, and I agree. I even resonated with Dr. Pryor’s statement about students who go to college because their parents tell them to; I feel like that is me to a certain extent! But, I do like to learn and challenge myself, so I guess you can say I’m a little conflicted. All in all, I am looking forward to this class and working with all of you. Hope you all enjoy my story!