Journal Entries

    Intro to Entrepreneurship Week 13 This week I learned a lot from Randy Haykin about his life and journey to him owning his own business. This has inspired me to do the same or something like it. The idea of owning your business is neat, but I know it takes hard work to do so. Haykin had experience and some jobs before taking the step to create his own business. He gained lessons from working with Apple as well as IM, and took the lessons learned into his next job. I also touched base with the idea that it is still possible to make time with your family, despite being full time with a job.  In the talk "An attitude of Gratitude", President Monson says: " Earlier, perhaps perceiving the culmination of His earthly mission, He spoke the lament, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” ( Luke 9:58 .) “No room in the inn” was no...

  Intro to Entrepreneurship Week 12 Based on what you read in the first two pages (pages 3 and 4), why are virtue and integrity so vital to an economy? According to Charles Handy, what is the “real justification” for the existence of businesses? What are two solutions proposed by Handy that you agree with? Why? Virtue and integrity are so vital to the economy. At the beginning of the article we see that a few bad apples would not destroy the whole orchid. The marketers would pick out the bad and toss them, and eventually the apple orchard would be back to normal. Truth is easily sacrificed in favor of market profits being on target and in need. Where is the integrity in this? There is none, which is why it is important to have it vital to the economy. Otherwise, it will crumble. You cannot have a full basket of bad apples, or a full orchard. Otherwise, there will be no orchard. The  “real just...

   Intro to Entrepreneurship Week 11 What is your attitude toward money? How can your view of money affect the way you live? What rules are recommended for prospering? My attitude towards money is that it is very much needed. Money is needed to survive, and while I may not love it, I need to know how to use it. In the way the I live, I know that  with it, I can pay for food, savings, bills, and life style. For me personally, I have a few different rules. I do want to prosper, and in order to do that, I must save. Saving money means to put off doing  and paying for things now in hopes of spending and buying things later down the road.  Another rule the I have recommended for prospering is to budget.  Budgeting means to plan out money and where to spend, and where to save. It is like a map for your direction of money, and plans to make sure output is less than ...