30A- FINAL REFLECTION

1) Read through your posts from this semester. Recall all of the experiences you've had a long the way -- the highs, the lows -- the fun moments, and the moments of drudgery, and even the moments of dread.

I've done quite a lot of different kinds of assignments throughout the semester. It has been quite the emotional rollercoaster. There were a lot of easy assignments and a lot of annoying assignments. Interviewing so many people really was a hassle but I see how it was all trying to get us closer to becoming an entrepreneur.

2) What sticks out to you as the most formative experience? The experience that you'll remember years later? What was your most joyous experience? What experience are you most proud of yourself for accomplishing?

I really liked the Venture Concept assignment. It was the biggest assignment but having to put all of the individual assignment together to make one large business was an amazing idea to me. I really liked the bug list assignment too. I am proud of all of the elevator pitches I made it through in this class.

3) At the beginning of the semester, I mentioned that I wanted each of you to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Now, at the end, do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Do you think you have moved closer to developing an entrepreneurial mindset?

To be honest I do not feel like an entrepreneur yet because I have not started my business. I do in fact feel closer to developing and entrepreneurial mindset because of this class though.

4) What is the one recommendation you would make to the students who are going to journey down this path in the future? What would you recommend they do to perform best in this course? What would you recommend they do to foster that mindset?

I recommend to always triple check your declarations! Even if you double checked and you know they are declared just check one more time and it is 100% in fact declared! If you are taking multiple classes I would recommend setting up a planner of every classes due dates and lecture dates to stay on top of every assignment.  

29A- Venture Concept #2

I was cleaning up my room one day and I realized just how much plastic I use alone. I then took it out to my family’s trash can in the kitchen and almost everything in there was plastic! I thought, wow I really wish I had a super easy way to recycle; so, I started looking into it and found out that all recycling service charges would be added onto my garbage removal service. To me paying to recycle honestly seemed absurd and completely steered me and my family away from wanting to recycle. Then I started my Principles of Entrepreneurship class with Dr. Pryor and I was able to identify my own unmet need and decided to build an amazing business around the opportunity. There are some people who are already environmentally active and conscious so it would be pointless for me to market my service to these people. I decided that the best untapped market for my service would be large families who are always active but do not have the time or knowledge for recycling. Right now, most people are just throwing all of their trash and recyclables into the same bin and paying a trash service fee for them to take all of your accumulated trash away for you.



With my amazing service I will give every customer a bin for them to fill up with all of their recyclables for free and I will also take all of their recyclables away from them for free as well. I will be able to make money by recycling all of the recyclables that others were just going to throw away for it so sit in a land fill and take up space or even end up in our oceans. A great idea that I got from feed back was to have my weekly newsletter send out as an email instead of a piece of paper. It is more environmentally efficient and it is less of a haggle all of customers including myself. This weekly news letter would not only include recycling facts but also the amount of plastic they recycled and how much plastic I was able to recycle as whole thanks to all of my customers. I have identified my customer market as large families who are always active so they do not have the time or knowledge to recycle.



My venture concept would in fact solve the problem of not being able to recycle and actually having to pay to recycle on top of paying for your garbage removal service. All that I ask is that every container is completely empty and that it is on my list of recyclables. This list includes all seven types of plastic which are labeled for the most part, aluminum, paper, and even glass. Since the market I am really marketing to is large active families I will be able to show them just how much of difference they can make in starting our planets war on plastic. They will be able to recycle a lot of recyclables each week and hopefully start bragging to all of their friends and family about much they are affecting the world for how little effort and time. That is the whole point of my weekly newsletter email giving them real hard facts about how much weight they are pushing and what kind of effect they are making by adding to my company. I can start getting more customers by showing them the results of other family’s success and how much we can all accomplish by working together. The more that they talk to their peers about my service the more people that will also want to feel good about themselves because they too recycle and save the plant at the same time. Once I start getting a big enough clientele pool, I can start my service in other areas that are thriving will ignorance and recyclables.



EVERYBODY SHOULD RECYCLE! Honestly, I do not care about having competitors trying to copy my success. I actually want people to copy me and start on this movement! I see no problem with this since the more people copying me just means that there are more people recycling. Obviously, I still want to be the best recycling option around so I have to say that my weekly email about how much each customer recycles and how much my company as a whole is recycling would stand out from just about every other service out there. It adds a personal touch to my service for each customer that will hopefully uplift their spirits a little be able to a little honest humble bragging because they really are making a difference. This email will be able to show them just how much of a difference we all are creating.

The next venture could be trying to get more customers to start recycling through my service. A cool idea could be that on the weekly newsletters I can show how many peoples recyclables I take care of and show them all the new recycling brothers and sisters that have joined our war on plastics.



In five years, I don’t want to be driving around picking up people’s recyclables. I want to be running multiple teams of people doing this for me. I also want to have started a real movement. This company is not all about making money which initially made me stand out from every other company like me. I want to genuinely change the world for the better.


I have gotten a lot of amazing feedback about my business class throughout this semester. One of the most influential criticisms was from a fellow classmate who told me to switch from an actual newsletter to an email newsletter. I get my memo out without wasting paper and it's very easy for my customers to trash it without feeling guilty about not recycling the paper.

I have changed a lot about my business because of the feedback I have gotten from my peers. I am very thankful for all of the insightful ideas that they gave me. If I were to start this business I really have thought very far ahead and have already avoided numerous obstacles along the way.

27A- Reading Reflection #3

1)What was the general theme or argument of the book?

The main theme of this book was explaining how the makers will embody the newest resolution. He talked about the industrial, digital, and the digital manufacturing revolutions.  He then goes on to explain how the makers are the newest of the revolutions.

2) How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?

Chris Anderson explained how the industrial revolution was just humans building on past ideas to make them stronger. That's exactly what all we have been doing in this class with our business idea.

3) If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?

I think our professor had this book in mind when he created the business idea exercise. The idea of building off of an idea to make it stronger and stronger is a great example of what this author was trying to convey.

4) What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from your expectations

My biggest aha moment was that makers was the new industrial revolution. He talked about how the maker fair was a great way for tinkerers to work together and share it with their communities to build on top of each others ideas. From tinkering to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship to industrial makers.

28A- Your Exit Strategy

At first I am going to be driving around getting peoples plastic and recycling it for them free of charge. I will be making a little bit of money but money is not what drives this company. The primary goal is to inform as many people as I can about how awful plastic and how important it is to recycle all recyclables. I do not plan on selling my company in the future. I would like to keep it in my family but I eventually want to hire people to recycle for me so I can focus on the big picture ideas for our ever growing plastic crisis. If its not cleaning up the oceans or our landfills then I want to find a radically innovative way to reuse plastic that will not harm our planet any more than it already has.

I have picked this strategy so that I could still have a company that recycles and is always trying to inform any and everyone to recycle while I am focusing on other plastic problems.

To be honest this is the first time I have thought about my exit strategy in this course so it did not affect my venture concept at all.

26A- Celebrating failure

Earlier this year in this entrepreneurship class I did assignment 6A Identifying Opportunities in Economic and Regulator Trends but unfortunately I forgot to declare that I actually completed the assignment. So I missed out on two points on my whole grade.

I learned to double check that I declared every assignment for the week. Thankfully, I have only made that mistake once. If I don't miss any more declarations and don't completely fail these next cupcakes I should just squeak by with the A.

Failure is hard but something my father has instilled in me since I was a child was to never make the same mistake twice. This class helped me realize that I will have many more failures going forward with my education. The only thing I can do is try to learn from my mistakes along with others mistakes as well.

25A- What's next

I have already talked about my weekly email offering my customers insight on much they are recycling and how much my company as whole is recycling. A cool new idea I though of was on this email I can welcome all new arrivals to our group and thank them for their recyclables.

My first interview was with Darryl Watkins. He has a large family and they do not recycle. He loved my entire plan and thought the newsletter and the free service were sure fire ways to attract and retain customers. His idea was when trying to get new customers I should explain my mission and values statement. He said that if I really wanted people to start recycling with me I should first explain why me.

The second interview in my existing market was with Hiroki Dione. I explained to him what my company was and how I planned on changing the world. He loved every detail I told him. He really liked the news letter idea and said that is a great innovation to my opportunity. He told me I was doing everything perfectly and that I have thought of everything I need to be successful.

The third interview in my existing market was with Jose Rivero. I explained to him what my company was and what I planned on doing and he loved it. I then asked him what else I could be doing that I have not though of yet. He gave me the great idea to get on social media and start making a presence. He said I might even be able to get new customers this way as well.

This exercise really helped me identify new possibilities and how to make some really great changes to my company. I will make a really good business plan and start giving my elevator pitch to all potential new customers. I can also make some social media pages to really start getting new people and starting a movement.

I decided to change from a B2C to a B2B market.

I talked to Ote Williams who is a store manager at S&S Food Store. I pitched him my idea and told him I can set up bins in the store and our side the store next to the other trash cans with my name and contact info for any potential customer that may like to start recycling. Ote told me that I could have a top performers section on my emails to show my customers who is recycling the most.

The second interview in my new market was Bailey Burbono who is a store manager at Baker Salvage which is a local discount grocery store. I told her my business plan and what I wanted to do and she loved the idea. She said she wanted a very large bin because they use a lot of plastic. Her idea of what to change was to give local stores like hers that recycle with me a sticker to put in their window to show that they are environmentally conscious and to give me more new customers.

This exercise really helped me identify some great opportunities to make my company even better and efficient. I can start making a top performers list to make friends and family compete against each other to recycle more. Also having stores being able to label them selves as environmentally friendly would be a big boost for them and hopefully get my name out even faster. I think this B2B market is very interesting and might be a better way to go.

24A- Venture Concept #1

I was cleaning up my room one day and I realized just how much plastic I use alone. I then took it out to my family’s trash can in the kitchen and almost everything in there was plastic! I thought, wow I really wish I had a super easy way to recycle; so, I started looking into it and found out that all recycling service charges would be added onto my garbage removal service. To me paying to recycle honestly seemed absurd and completely steered me and my family away from wanting to recycle. Then I started my Principles of Entrepreneurship class with Dr. Pryor and I was able to identify my own unmet need and decided to build an amazing business around the opportunity. There are some people who are already environmentally active and conscious so it would be pointless for me to market my service to these people. I decided that the best untapped market for my service would be large families who are always active but do not have the time or knowledge for recycling. Right now, most people are just throwing all of their trash and recyclables into the same bin and paying a trash service fee for them to take all of your accumulated trash away for you.

With my amazing service I will give every customer a bin for them to fill up with all of their recyclables for free and I will also take all of their recyclables away from them for free as well. I will be able to make money by recycling all of the recyclables that others were just going to throw away for it so sit in a land fill and take up space or even end up in our oceans. A great idea that I got from feed back was to have my weekly newsletter send out as an email instead of a piece of paper. It is more environmentally efficient and it is less of a haggle all of customers including myself. This weekly news letter would not only include recycling facts but also the amount of plastic they recycled and how much plastic I was able to recycle as whole thanks to all of my customers. I have identified my customer market as large families who are always active so they do not have the time or knowledge to recycle.

My venture concept would in fact solve the problem of not being able to recycle and actually having to pay to recycle on top of paying for your garbage removal service. All that I ask is that every container is completely empty and that it is on my list of recyclables. This list includes all seven types of plastic which are labeled for the most part, aluminum, paper, and even glass. Since the market I am really marketing to is large active families I will be able to show them just how much of difference they can make in starting our planets war on plastic. They will be able to recycle a lot of recyclables each week and hopefully start bragging to all of their friends and family about much they are affecting the world for how little effort and time. That is the whole point of my weekly newsletter email giving them real hard facts about how much weight they are pushing and what kind of effect they are making by adding to my company. I can start getting more customers by showing them the results of other family’s success and how much we can all accomplish by working together. The more that they talk to their peers about my service the more people that will also want to feel good about themselves because they too recycle and save the plant at the same time. Once I start getting a big enough clientele pool, I can start my service in other areas that are thriving will ignorance and recyclables.

EVERYBODY SHOULD RECYCLE! Honestly, I do not care about having competitors trying to copy my success. I actually want people to copy me and start on this movement! I see no problem with this since the more people copying me just means that there are more people recycling. Obviously, I still want to be the best recycling option around so I have to say that my weekly email about how much each customer recycles and how much my company as a whole is recycling would stand out from just about every other service out there. It adds a personal touch to my service for each customer that will hopefully uplift their spirits a little be able to a little honest humble bragging because they really are making a difference. This email will be able to show them just how much of a difference we all are creating.

The next venture could be trying to get more customers to start recycling through my service. A cool idea could be that on the weekly newsletters I can show how many peoples recyclables I take care of and show them all the new recycling brothers and sisters that have joined our war on plastics.

In five years, I don’t want to be driving around picking up people’s recyclables. I want to be running multiple teams of people doing this for me. I also want to have started a real movement. This company is not all about making money which initially made me stand out from every other company like me. I want to genuinely change the world for the better.

23A- My Venture's Unfair Advantage

My first resource would be my customer market.
It is valuable, not rare, it is imitable, and it could be copied.
My next resource would be my customer service.
It is valuable to each customer, it is rare to know the people who to take your trash off, it could be imitated and copied if someone really wanted to.
My next resource would be my free bins.
All trash disposal companies charge you either for the bin or for the service so it is valuable. rare, but it could be imitated if someone wanted to.
My next resource would be the service it self.
It is valuable, but it is not rare, and it is imitable if some one wanted to.
My next resource would be the truck I use to haul the plastic from the homes straight to the recycling facility.
The truck would not be valuable to anyone but me, it is not rare, and it is imitable. 
My next resource would be my reliability.
This is valuable to the customers, is not rare, and can be imitated.
My next resource would be my weekly email about the plastic.
This is valuable, it is rare, and it is imitable.
My next resource would be me. 
I am valuable, rare, and I am not imitable.
My last resource is my location.
This is valuable, it is rare, but it is also imitable.

My customer service and weekly emails would in fact be my best resources other than my customers themselves. If I keep them happy and informed I will keep my customers and my company.

22A- Elevator Pitch #3

I got some really good feedback on my last elevator pitch. Great comments with great feedback. I noticed the audio in my computer is not as good as I thought it was so I still had to change how loudly and confidently I spoke.

I changed a couple sentences here and there to make it flow a littler better and I spoke louder so that I could be easily heard. Third time is in fact the charm! Doing this assignment three times really got me comfortable with this speech and speaking in front of a camera.

21A Reading Reflection #2

1) What was the general theme or argument of the book?

The book I chose to read for my reading reflection #2 assignment was written by Scott Adams, "How To Fail At Everything And Still Win Big". Obviously the theme is how to fail over and over again yet still succeed.

2) How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?

This book definitely enhanced and connected with what I learned in ENT 3003. It shows you how to set a detailed schedule with the time, space,and the knowledge of how to get multiple systems. Adams prefers systems over goals.

3) If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?

My exercise for this class based on what this book taught me would be really hard assignment with a lot of goals and certain tasks to complete. Almost certainly people would not get a perfect score on their first couple of tries but after making them fail a couple of times and with a little help I can show them that you can actually learn from your failures.

4) What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from your expectations?

My biggest aha moment was when I realized that Adams really was right. It is so much better to focus on the systems of doing things rather than the goal. When you focus on the goal too much you seem to always fail. Completing a whole bunch of small systems can help boost confidence which in turns will make you win

Overall this was really great, funny, and witty book that can teach you a lot. I would recommend to anyone who fails a lot like me and still wants to succeed,

20 Growing Social Capital

The first person fits the domain expert. His name is Dustin Rowe and he loves to recycle just as much as I do. He is a friend of my dads and when my dad told him about my business he said he had to contact me. He told me that my market search was a good fit and gave me some advice on how to proceed with my business. Having Dustin in my network will help me trouble shoot any problems and I can bounce my ideas off of him as well.

The second person fits my market expert. Her name is Angela Ferry. She is an insurance sales rep and has a great understanding of my market. I met this lady through one of my friends cousins mother. I pitched her my business idea and told her what my market would consist of. She thought that my segment would really fit well with my business. Having her in my network could lead to gaining new potential clients in my segment.

The third expert would honestly be a plastic supplier. I did not see the need to contact them as they would see my business as trivial to their time.

This was actually a really cool exercise that helped me start to build my social capital. If I started my business I would have a good start on where to start because of this exercise. This did differ from all of the other networking exercises because I was able to establish a relationship with people that could help me start my business. 

17A- Elevator pitch #2

Elevator Pitch #2

I definitely noticed that I was talking very quietly and I moved a little too much. Both were very good tips for me.

I changed my tone and how loud I spoke during my elevator pitch. I tried to not move as much but also did not stand still.

18A- Customer Avatar

My prototypical customer avatar would have to be an older lady in her 40's with a large family that is always busy. If it isn't church on Sunday, the kids sporting events on Saturday, kids extra curricular actives after school during the week, or having to work a full time job her days are always busy. She rarely even has time for herself. Recycling is the last thing on this busy moms mind. All she knows is that little Timmy takes the trash out every week and it is taken care of for her. My idea will help her feel better about recycling almost hassle free while living a very hard and busy life for no fee at all! My monthly news letters about recycling facts would make her day just a little better and hopefully she will spread the good word of my service to all of her friends who are most likely also busy moms with large families.


I do have one thing in common with this busy mother and that is a full schedule. If it isn't working a full time job freezing my but off filling order at Walmart Dc I am home doing home work.

19A- Idea Napkin #2

1) You. Who you are. What your talents are. What your skills and experiences are. Also: what are your aspirations? Specifically regarding your business concept, how do you see this business (if you were to start it) playing a role in your life?

I am Myles Finn! I am a hard worker and when I set my mind on something it will get done. My skills that I have acquired so far are a great work ethic, positive attitude, and adaptability. My aspirations for this business idea is to make a huge impact on our ever growing plastic crisis. That may mean finding a better way to recycle plastic, bringing great attention and action to this crisis or even just cleaning out the ocean of all the plastic. If I were to actually start this business I would just recycle a lot of peoples plastic while bringing attention to the crisis and eventually making a real impact. This business idea is just the stepping stone to what could come out of this. Some disagree with me and think that my service is a waste of time because most garbage disposal places will let you recycle. But you have to pay to try and make the world a little less plasticy? That is absolutely absurd to me! 

2) What are you offering to customers? Describe the product or service (in other words, how you'll solve customers' unmet needs). 

I am offering an easy way to recycle for my customers. I provide the bins and even pick up their plastic weekly free of charge. If the customer would like information, I could start informing them on this ever growing problem, showing them how big of a difference they are making, and hopefully have them tell even one person about me and my goals. I just want everyone to open their eyes and see that if every one pitches in and does their part we still have time to fix this issue.

3) Who are you offering it to? Describe, in as much detail as possible, the demographic and psychographic characteristics of your customers. Think especially of this question: what do your customers all have in common?

Demographically I would offer my service in my home town. Psycographic characteristics would be either laziness or lack of knowledge about our plastic crisis. All of my customers have the urge to recycle but do not have the means to and that is where I would come in with a personal impact on all my customers. My ideal prototypical customer would be large busy families that do not know how to recycle and do not want to pay to recycle.

4) Why do they care? Your solution is only valuable insofar as customers believe its valuable to them. Here, explain why customers will actually pay you money to use your product or service. 

Aha! That is just it. I do not require any service fee since they are already paying me with their unwanted plastic! They care because once I talk to them a couple of times and they read the pamphlets that I leave for them they will get the same urge to recycle that I have. It is already bad enough that we have so many land fills just taking up some of our earth while harming it at the same time. If we all do our best to recycle we can fix this issue.

5) What are your core competencies? What sets you apart from everyone else? Also: what do you have that nobody else has? 

What sets me apart is my drive and knowledge of the crisis. A lot of people are aware of this issue and nobody takes advantage of the opportunity that I have identified. I want to see change in the world. If that requires a small time trash service that hopefully starts a movement then I would be very pleased.

I personally think that these elements do fit together quite well. My service is free with no requirements at all. I feel that I would be able to spread the positive message of recycling to a large group of people this way who would  hopefully tell other people . While spreading the word of recycling I will be making money off of other peoples plastic that they were just going to throw away. Impacting the planet and making a profit go together quite well to me.

Some people do not agree that this is solving a customers unmet need. Not having to pay to recycle makes a lot of sense and incentives more people to go with my service! It will be a lot of work but it is for a great cause! I just want everyone to pitch in and recycle. If that means I have to spread the news and get the ball rolling then so be it! I updated each question based on the great feedback I got from my fellow students.

16A- What's Your Secret Sauce?

I find that I am a very hard worker. I also get stuff done when I set my mind on it. I have great time management skills. I try to think about all alternatives before making my move. I always try to have a positive attitude while getting the work done.

A lot of the interviewees said the same things I said. They did not mention my time management skills or positive attitude. They stated that I am very productive, I can think ahead, when I set my mind on something I get it done, I can take constructive criticism, and I am good at meeting and making relationships with new people.

I like both lists and would not change either of them. They are both spot on.

15A- Figuring Out Buyer Behavior #2

My first interview was with Christopher Holton. He fits my segment of a large family that does not have the time or knowledge to recycle. I asked him what would matter to him the most and his response was punctuality. He told me he hated when his trash service was running or missed his house because he had to wait to go back out to grab his trash can. He said he really liked that he did not have to pay for my service with money just his unwanted recyclables. I also told him if he used my service I would send out monthly newsletters describing how much he has recycled with a lot of other recycling facts and he said that would be a great way to keep the customer engaged.

My second interview was with Randy Wilson. He also fits my segment of a large family that does not have the time or knowledge to recycle. The first question I asked was what would matter the most the to him about my service. His response was different from all the of my other interviewees. He told me the style of his bin would matter a lot. How big it is, color, and shape. He also really liked the idea of paying for my service with his recyclables only. Mr. Wilson also liked the idea of the newsletter to keep the customer engaged.

My final interview was with Bobby Martin. He lives with a large family but also does not have the time or knowledge to recycle which makes him fit into my segment. I asked him what would matter the most to him about my service. Mr Martin actually combined Mr. Holtons and Mr. Wilsons viewpoints. He said as long as I was always on time and my bin was big enough that he would not have to fight or struggle with his recyclables to fit in my bin then he would love my service. He thought my idea of paying with recyclables was very unique and he liked it. The idea of the news letter did not do as well with Mr. Martin as it did with my other two interviewees. He said as long as he was recycling that was all he cared about.

I learned a lot about what my segment wants and what they do not want. If I were to go through with this business opportunity then I think I picked the best segment.

14A- Halfway Reflection

1) Tenaciousness is a competency. What are the behaviors that you have used (or developed) to keep up with the requirements of this course? 

I find this class is very simple when it comes to due dates. They are always due on the same day and same time for the most part. Keeping up with other classes and this class does get hard though. I bought a planner and wrote down all of the due dates for my classes so that I could stay on top of every class.

2) Tenaciousness is also about attitude. Talk about a moment or two when you felt like "giving up." What pulled you through? Do you feel like you've developed a tenacious attitude during the past two months? What experience or experiences most contributed to this?

I did assignment 6A identifying opportunities in economic and regulatory trends but I forgot to declare that I did it and lost both points for the assignment. I was very angry but only at myself. I have kept pushing through and if i stay on top of everything from here on out I can still get the A in this and that is what is keeping me going. I do think I have refined my tenaciousness because of this class

3) Three tips. What are three tips you would offer next semester's student about (1) fostering the skills that support tenacity and (2) developing the 'tenacious mindset' ?

Always double check that you have declared your assignments! Always!

Get a planner so you do not get confused about due dates between different classes.

Start working on assignments as early as possible and even work ahead if you can.

13A- Reading Reflection #1

1) You read about an entrepreneur:

• What surprised you the most?
• It really surprised me that Mcdonalds was originally a simple buzzing family owned business until a cheap salesman seen e money mine out of those beautiful golden arches. 
• What about the entrepreneur did you most admire?
• I do have to say even after everything I read about Ray, he may have been a thief but he was a smart and very hardworking man. I wish he had used his astounding work ethic in a much better way though.
• What about the entrepreneur did you least admire?
• At first I really liked Ray Kroc he seemed like a hard working intelligent entrepreneur with a huge future ahead of him. Then I realized he stole the business and that made me lose all respect for this man.
• Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about it?
• He did start up a hole in the wall music store with his friends that did not do so well. They had to sell their goods and split the money three ways. He played the organ for the Harvard Congressional Church but after playing a song that wasn't approved he didn't play for the church anymore. After he came back from the Red Cross he tried to go back to school but that only lasted one semester

2) What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited? 

He was definitely a hard worker. He sold paper cups for 17 years while climbing the corporate ladder. He seen a great opportunity to sell Multimixer and he became an entrepreneur. He liked to debate and be the center of attention ever since high school.

3) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

The book was not clear about when it went back in time. First he was 54 and being incredibly inspired by the McDonald brothers then he is 18 in the Red Cross. Could of had a better transition.

4) If you were able to ask two questions to the entrepreneur, what would you ask? Why?

My first question would be why in the world did you make  John Clark give his shares back. It was an unreasonable number but it still put Ray in 100,000 in debt which was so much money in the 1940's. My second question is how could you steal the company from the McDonald brothers. They were doing just fine working right next to their home till you came along and took their livelihood for your own financial gain.

5) For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?

He loved hard work. He even said " I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems... As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot." I do in fact share his opinion and I am blown away by how amazing that metaphor is!

12A- Figuring out buyer behavior

The segment that I chose would be large families that don't have the time or knowledge to recycle.

The first interview that I conducted was on a co-worker who lives on my road named Kyle Leland. He has four kids and lives with his wife and both his mother and father in-law. They already have the trash company Advanced Disposal that takes their trash off every Thursday. He said if I also did my pick ups on the same day and preferably the same time then he would love to be a customer of mine. As the man of the house he has to take the trash out most of the time and he has started to realize how much plastic his huge family just throws away to sit in a land fill. I had already talked to Kyle about my service at work so he looked up if Advanced Disposal could offer the same deal. He figured out they would but they would charge him extra for the new service and new recycle bin. He said the fact that I do not charge at all, provide the bin, and haul the plastic off has won him over. Thankfully Kyle has a rather large group of friends that he spoke to on my theoretical company. Kyle spoke to his neighbor Allen Ingram and told him all about my ideas and aspirations.

The second person I interviewed was Allen Ingram. He lives with his wife, his three kids, and his brother. As another large family he too noticed that they threw away a lot of trash. When I asked what time and days would best work for him he had the same answer as Kyle. Since his trash pick up is on Thursdays he said it be very convenient for him to just take both of them out at the same time. When I asked him if he had ever thought about recycling before and if he has ever researched ways to recycle he told me that he had not. He said that his family is always busy doing something so recycling was not that important to him. When I told him all the benefits of recycling and that I literally would have no service fee he wanted me to actually start my business so that he could be apart of the solution with out putting in any effort or money.

The third person that I interviewed was Shawna Bernard. Mrs. Bernard is an elderly lady that lives with her husband, son, and her three grand children a little further down my road than my previous two interviewees. She has her oldest grandson take out the garbage every week. She told me that she did not really believe in global warming and I was absolutely shocked! I asked to show her some real evidence supporting this crisis and after that I think she seen how passionate I had gotten in educating her on this very serious problem that she said she would be interested. Once I told her I would not charge a service fee and I would provide the bin she seemed shocked. I explained to her that you can actually get money by recycling plastic, metal, and glass so I do not need to charge a fee since I earn my profit by helping the world and recycling stuff people were just going to throw away. She also became very adamant in me starting my business so that her family  get contribute to stopping the plastic crisis so many citizens ignore. She even told me that if she told her sister about my amazing opportunity that I would have another large family waiting on me to get this ball rolling.

I learned a lot about my market for my business. I found out that this would actually be a viable option and with hard work ethnic and a great attitude I could spread like wild fire among my community.

Based on all of my interviews so far no large family really has the time or knowledge of recycling. With a company like mine that tries to make it convenient for the most amount of customers for no fee then I could really have a thriving business while helping save the planet one trash day at a time.

11A- Idea Napkin #1

1) You. Who you are. What your talents are. What your skills and experiences are. Also: what are your aspirations? Specifically regarding your business concept, how do you see this business (if you were to start it) playing a role in your life?

I am Myles Finn! I am a hard worker and when I set my mind on something it will get done. My skills that I have acquired so far are a great work ethic, positive attitude, and adaptability. My aspirations for this business idea is to make a huge impact on our ever growing plastic crisis. That may mean finding a better way to recycle plastic, bringing great attention and action to this crisis or even just cleaning out the ocean of all the plastic. If I were to actually start this business I would just recycle a lot of peoples plastic while bringing attention to the crisis and eventually making a real impact.

2) What are you offering to customers? Describe the product or service (in other words, how you'll solve customers' unmet needs). 

I am offering an easy way to recycle for my customers. I provide the bins and even pick up their plastic weekly free of charge. If the customer would like information I could start informing them on this ever growing problem, showing them how big of a difference they are making, and hopefully have them tell even one person about me and my goals.

3) Who are you offering it to? Describe, in as much detail as possible, the demographic and psychographic characteristics of your customers. Think especially of this question: what do your customers all have in common?

Demographically I would offer my service in my home town. Psycographic characteristics would be either laziness or lack of knowledge about our plastic crisis. All of my customers have the urge to recycle but do not have the means to and that is where I would come in with a personal impact on all my customers.

4) Why do they care? Your solution is only valuable insofar as customers believe its valuable to them. Here, explain why customers will actually pay you money to use your product or service. 

Aha! That is just it. I do not require any service fee since they are already paying me with their unwanted plastic! They care because once I talk to them a couple of times and they read the pamphlets that I leave for them they will get the same urge to recycle that I have.

5) What are your core competencies? What sets you apart from everyone else? Also: what do you have that nobody else has? 

What sets me apart is my drive and knowledge of the crisis. A lot of people are aware of this issue and nobody takes advantage of the opportunity that I have identified.

I personally think that these elements do fit together quite well. My service is free with no requirements at all. I feel that I would be able to spread the positive message of recycling to a large group of people this way. While spreading the word of recycling I will be making money off of other peoples plastic that they were just going to throw away. Impacting the planet and making a profit go together quite well.

10A- Elevator Pitch #1

According to a study done by the University of Georgia, 18 billion pounds of plastic trash winds up in our oceans each year. Just to put that into perspective, it’s enough trash to cover every foot of coastline around the world with five full trash bags of plastic…compounding every year The United States recycling rate is around 34.5% right now. If we’re able to get the rate up to 75%, the effect will be like removing 50 million cars from United States roads. The United States alone throws away $11.4 billion worth of recyclable containers and packaging every year. Just think about the sheer amount of money we throw away and the serious harm that it does to our environment. That's why i'm encouraging everyone to recycle. I'm starting my own business where I will give you a recycle bin to fill up through out the week. I will then come pick up your recyclables free of charge. I will make money by recycling all the free plastic that others were just going to throw away. I'm making money and saving the planet at the same time. Let me know how my delivery was in this elevator pitch.

https://youtu.be/69FUPvTaqLs

That is the link to my YouTube video.

9A- Testing the hypothesis part two

Interview #1 was James Godbold who lives very far from me. He told me that he would be interested in collecting his recyclables for me to recycle for him. Unfortunately he lives almost an hour away from me and the recycling plant is an hour away from my house so he lives a little too far for me to drive all the way out there just for him.
Interview #2 was a man named Roger Barnes. He lives down my road so I pitched the idea of giving him a plastic bin to fill with all of his plastics and I would take them off his hands for free and recycle them. He said he would love to be apart of my program because he felt like he would be able to make a difference without having to actually do anything. He said he take his trash out every Thursday and that he would put my bin out there every week for me to collect as well.
Interview #3 was Josh Kennedy. I pitched him my great business idea and he said he loved it. The only thing was that he was already recycling his own family's plastic and making money. He did not want to forfeit his profit to me just so that I could take it to the same place and get the money instead.
Interview #4 was Mr. Eddy. He runs a bar that my dad bounces for so I asked him if he would be interested in doing business with me and he said no. He said that he was already scrapping all of the aluminum and glass that he uses and that he does not use enough plastic to even do business with me.
Interview #5 was Inge Grovienstein who is a friend of my grand mothers. I gave her the same pitch that I gave everyone else and I once again got a no. She said the she not only does not use enough plastic to recycle but she also just does not care enough to sort plastic in a bin for me. She said it was too much work with no return.
I  feel that I have been able to identify the boundaries of my business opportunity idea quite well because of this exercise. If I ever do go through with this idea then I will know who my customers are and are not.
Inside the Boundary:
Who: Roger Barnes
What: Me recycling all of his plastic for him
Why: To make an impact on the environment.
Not inside the boundary:
Who is not: James, Josh, Mr. Eddy, and Inge
What is the reason not: Too far, already recycles, already recycles, and does not want to.
Alternate explanations: I can eliminate these  kinds of people when looking for new customers.

8A Solving the problem

Not enough people are recycling which has always been a huge issue in America. I see an opportunity to fix this issue and make money at the same time. I am going to start a business that is actually free to join all you have to do is collect all plastics that range from 1-7 into my bin and I will recycle for you free of charge with the recycle bin included for free as well. I may not make money off of my customers that collect plastic for me but I will make money on all of the free plastic that I will recycle. I could propose my business to other businesses for guaranteed work as opposed to individual customers.

7A- Testing the Hypothesis part 1

The best opportunity that I want to choose out of the very many problems I've presented in this class is plastic. We need to change the amount of plastic an average American uses versus how much they recycle due to either a lack of knowledge about plastic or just plain laziness.
The who: average Americans.
The what: Changing the amount of plastic the average American uses versus how much they recycle.
The why: Either lack of knowledge or just plain laziness
 I have interviewed five people about the use of plastic ranging from eight people homes to a single apartment college kid.

The first interview is William John Crockett the fourth a junior staying at UNF. I asked him how much does he recycle and he responded with as much as possible. He told me there are recycling bins all across campus so it is quite easy for him to recycle as its almost harder to not recycle. I asked him if he knew a lot of students that liked to recycle and he said a good bit of students go out of their way to recycle plastics 1 and 2. He also said a lot of students couldn't care less about recycling and has seen students throw waste into the recycle bins. I asked him what classification of plastic does he throw away the most and he responded with mainly 1 and 2 but occasionally he gets the chance to recycle other kinds of plastic. I also asked him why? Why does he recycle even though other people. He responded with he likes recycling no matter how big or small he feels like his contribution is making a difference. Any chance he gets he will try to educate people on the harmfulness of plastic when it gets to the land fill as opposed to getting recycled.

 The second person I interviewed is a traveling conversion team lead for Builders FirstSource. As a traveling conversion team lead Mr. Sanders has seen a lot of plastic when it comes to traveling. He said airports normally have recycle bins which makes it easy for him to recycle there. A lot of the hotels he stays in also offer recycling but some do not. Every chance he gets he will recycle but some times he can not. I asked him if any of his team members feel the same way about recycling and he said some do. At the beginning of every new wave each team has to do a team building exercise and he said since some of his team members don't share our belief he will find a river or ocean front and have the team run out and pick up as much trash as possible and the person with most amount of plastic will win a gift card. I told him this was a great idea and I loved how he got everyone involved and hopefully the team members will take this value to their home and spread it. I asked him why not as many people in airports, hotels , or even states care about recycling like we do. He responded that ignorance is bliss. They don't care that every pace of plastic they throw away will sit in a land fill for five hundred years as long as it is out of their hands it's not their problem anymore.

The third person I interviewed was Angela Pickett. Shes a mom of four who has both her mother and mother in law staying at her house. Collectively they generate almost double the amount of plastic my family will create. I asked her if she recycled at all and she said not at all. She doesn't know where to take her recyclables since none of our dumps recycle and she thought her trash pick up Advanced Disposal did not offer recycling services which they do. I asked her now that she knows its possible will she start recycling and she said of course she will because as a large family like that they can put a small dent in how much plastic is wasted. She said after this phone call she would go online to look at Advanced Disposals recycling options. I asked her now with this new view point on her possibility of recycling would she start spreading the word to everyone in her community. She said of course she would and that she can't wait to get that green "for mother earth" trash can.

The fourth person I interviewed is a construction worker name Elijah Rayburn. As a construction worker he definitely sees his fair share of plastic and other kinds of recyclables. I asked him if his company, project manager, or if even he recycled and said no to all. They are under such a time crunch right now that he said recycling is so far from everybody's mind. Then I explained what it would mean to the earth and the future humans who walked this planet and he kind of started to see where I was coming from. I asked once things start to slow back down that in one of the general meetings every morning to bring it up as an idea and show them what it really means to the environment. He said that was a great idea and that he him when given the opportunity will throw his plastic away in the recycle bins in certain gas stations in Ponte Vedra beach. I asked him if anyone in his family or even his union recycled and he said not to his knowledge but that he will try to change that to the best of his ability.

The fifth person I interviewed is a PCT at St Vincent's Riverside Medical Center. As a PCT Kristen Godbold as seen her fair share of plastic. When I asked her if she recycles at home she said no. When I asked her if she recycles at her work she said yes she tries to every chance she gets. I asked her if any of her co workers also recycles and she said yes because it is convenient to since there are recycle bins in hot spots around the hospital. I asked her why she does not recycle at home then and she said no one in her family has ever wanted to recycle and she also did not know that Advanced Disposal has a recycle bin. I told her to let her family know what kind of impact they can have on their environment if her and her family would start to recycle at home. Kristen also said that she would talk to all of her friends and try to convey how important recycling really is,
I now know that my trash pick up Advanced Disposal offers a recycling bin thanks to my conversation with Mrs Pickett. Hopefully anyone reading this will also maybe just do some research on plastic and maybe even start recycling with the rest of us. This was actually a really fun exercise and I learned a lot of good information.

6A Identifying opportunities in economic and regulatory trends

I found my first economic opportunity in the New York Times economic section.
"Trade war starts changing manufactures in hard to reverse ways"
Since the tariffs are starting to affect a lot more manufactures in different ways an economic trend that just start is trying to design china out of the picture. Trumps goal of these tariffs is so that businesses come back home in stead they are just importing every they got out of china out of a bunch of other countries. This article was a very electronic based article so the example it gave was companies like ControlTek are now importing from Vietnam and Malaysia more now. The opportunity would to try and bulk buy a lot of the parts they need and slightly up charge since you can get it to them a lot faster.  This opportunity would be quite difficult as you would need a large set of warehouses, employees, and a lot of money. I'm sure a lot of people see the exact same opportunity as me and i'm sure someone is acting on it but the reason most can see it but will not execute is because you need a lot of stuff to get this ball rolling that most people probably won't have.

I found my second economic opportunity in the New York Times economic section.
"As California wildfire season looms, finding tree trimmers is a new problem"
California has already fallen behind their 2019 target of trimming and removing 375,000 trees ultimately because they don't have the man power. Companies have been growing fast, Arbor works has expanded to 550 workers from its 100 in late 2016. California alone spent billions on all the wild fires they have had so they are now willing to spend millions to prevent such a natural disaster again. If you're a handy man, a tree worker, or have landscaping experience then you can become part of the union in California making 28 dollars an hour trimming and removing trees. That's a pretty good opportunity for the people with experience. If you had the experience then this would be easy. They would just have to live out in California making good money at a guaranteed job. I'm sure many people have seen this same article but don't have the experience to do anything about it. Hopefully some experienced people have seen this across the country and have trekked over to California to help prevent another major disaster.

I found my first regulatory opportunity at Regulations.gov
Kentucky Regulatory Program
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) have proposed an amendment to the Kentucky Regulatory program. The OSMRE wants to change the fact that they are required to permit the area above their under ground mine and change the related public notification requirements. The customer would be the OSMRE and other mining companies. If this proposed amendment went through they would be able to mine a lot faster which in turn means that they are making more money. I'm sure other people have read this article and thought about it to but unless you are a miner or own a mining company we could not do it.

I found my second regulatory opportunity at Regulations.gov
Safety zone; Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington
The Coast Guard want to amend the safety zone for the Seattle Air Show Performance. This is a necessary action to protect participants and spectators from low flying high speed aircraft's. The only way into this new designated zone as a person or vessel is if authorized by the Captain of Port Puget Sound or a designated representative. It might be harder to get into this safety zone as a person or vessel since you now would have to be authorized by the Captain. The customers to talk to would be long time flyers and spectators to get their point of view on this change. This would be an easier opportunity since you can call the people who have made a name for themselves in this show to see how they have reacted to this news. I'm not sure a lot of people have come to the same conclusion as me from reading this article because I had to think a little differently here than I did on my previous three.

5A- Identifying local opportunities

Macclenny commission will limit deposits of yard waste at site.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 4
The city's yard waste disposal site off of North Sixth Street is being over run by landscaping and tree removal companies because they do not have a dumping fee. Since these companies have been dumping for free for so many years they have run out of room and can only accept residential yard debris now.
The problem for the city is they are running out of room to put all of the debris collected. The problem for the business is where to take said debris preferably somewhere that will not charge to dump like this dump site used to.
 The small businesses who now have to drive elsewhere and might have to pay to dump their debris which would in turn cause the small businesses to raise their prices accordingly would really have the problem. Customers of said companies might have a problem with this verdict because now they have to pay even more to get the job done.

Speed bumps at Sands Pointe gotta go
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 6
One of the board members of the Sands Pointe home owners association was concerned about people speeding through the neighbor hood so she installed large rubber speed bumps inside the neighbor hood to prevent this "increasingly hazardous problem". She did not get permission from the city to put these speed bumps on a city road so they will be pulled up.
Only to Ms. Berkaw the speed bumps being pulled up is a huge problem. To everyone else in the neighbor hood the problem is that these speed bumps were unauthorized by the city.
The residents who live in Sands Pointe have a huge problem with these awful speed bumps that were not authorized by the city. An eighty year old couple says they agonize in pain every time they drive over it.

Lawsuit over BCI inmate beating in '15
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 7
A former BCI inmate will be suing the state, the prison, and several officers for failing to prevent or  properly respond to a violent attack that left the inmate paralyzed for months with serious head injuries.
The guards and the prison failed to prevent or properly respond to a a known violent gang attack.
The former BCI inmate is the one with with the problem.

Local pot farm prospects on hold
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00742 Page 1
Chris Jones is wanting to put a medical marijuana cultivation facility in south west Macclenny but there is a hold on awaiting the resolution of a Tallahassee judges' ruling that the state lacked the authority to limit the amount of cultivation licenses as it already in 2017. There are only 17 allowed right now with four open spots left but they need to hurry so Chris Jones will be able to secure his spot in  line.
There are only 17 allowed medical marijuana licenses in Florida right now and with only four left Chris Jones is feeling the pressure of time.
Chris Jones has the problem with how long his hold is awaiting a judges ruling so he can get his medical marijuana cultivation facility.

Flu: Death rate twice state rate
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00728 Page 2
The states death rate for the flu averaged 9.17 fatalities per 100,000 people over the last 11 years while Baker county's rate is more than twice at 21.9 over the same period.
Baker County needs to step up their game when it come to influenza as strong as H1N1 or just the common cold.
The people who get the flu would be the ones with the problem since this county's death rate is more than doubled that of the states average.

4A- Forming an opportunity

Pressure washing is a huge opportunity to not only make money but make peoples belongings look way better than they did before. Driving around my uncles subdivision I noticed that everyone had the same nasty black grime all over their side walk, drive way and even their homes except my uncles. He told me he had gotten tired of everyone's concrete looking so nasty so he went and bought a pressure washer in hopes that his surrounding neighbors would take the hint and follow suit. I'm 75% sure that given the opportunity my uncles neighbors would pay to have their house, sidewalk, and drive way look pristine and brand new without having to buy a pressure washer or actually have to do it themselves.

Some customers could be just individuals in a subdivision, with my LLC I can sell my service to business' around me, or I could hit certain home owners association and get guaranteed work. Every one likes to have their house clean when visitors come over or their lawn well maintained for their neighbors. I think a fresh clean look has always been desirable amongst most home owners.

My first prototypical customer was my brothers friends neighbor, Andrew Keenee. The way his roof is lined up with his sidewalk way all the rain just hammers down since he does not have a gutter system installed. He told me he hates walking up that dirty side walk everyday. He notices the grime any time he looks out his windows. As of right now he is too broke to buy a pressure washer or to even pay me to clean it up for him. I was a little sad that my first prototypical customer rejected me but when trying to sell something you should always expect a no but hope for a yes!

My second prototypical customer was my dads construction boss. They go in to already built subdivisions and spackle and sponge the homes on the block. Henry told me that a lot of the others homes that were already built could definitely use some pressure washing. He said some of them are bad but a lot of them are brand new as well. He offered to put in a good word for me to the guy who gave him this job to get me started but I told him it was all hypothetical at the moment.

My third prototypical customer was going to be my step brothers home owners association but they never returned his call. So I went and talked to his mom who owns two homes in the same area and asked her all the questions. She said she knows for a fact that a lot of the older rich folks would love to have their side walks and homes pressure washed. Even if I couldn't get a contract with the home owners association that I could just go around the neighborhood and advertise my service. She also asked if I maybe thought about expanding my idea a little further into a landscaping business that does lawn mowing, weed eating, pressure washing and everything in between. I realize that if I expanded I would receive a lot more business

I honestly learned a lot about my opportunity through this assignment. It was actually really fun to think of a problem backwards like this and create a solution. I was pretty surprised that my step brothers mom told about the expansion of my idea to create a lot more opportunity which would be very smart.

My original opportunity is still there at the foundation but if I were to follow through I would definitely expand this into a landscaping business to make more money.
I do believe my new opportunity is more accurate than when I first started.
I definitely feel that entrepreneurs should adapt to their customers feedback because there is always room for improvement no matter what.

3A- My Entrepreneurship story

Back in 9th grade I got my very first job with my best friends older brother John David Peterson. He started his bee keeping career as a school project in the 8th grade. He had just graduated when I first started working for him. He was still pretty small time but with the help of me and my brother we turned a couple of bee hives into a flourishing business. After a couple of years of grinding away my brother and I started traveling with boss man and the bees to Wisconsin to pollinate the cranberries and then all the way to California to pollinate the almonds. We also traveled to south Florida to pollinate Orange grooves. One of the best managerial and entrepreneurship stories i have is when the whole crew bailed on a last minute trip to put queens in the hives so they can start producing honey. Bossman told me that if I hadn't decided to come even on short notice there was no way he could do this on his own. I was still in school at the time so we had to make this quick. We got there Friday evening and it poured rain the entire time. Thankfully we got seven out of twelve yards done but the last five were the biggest yards. On Saturday night Bossman ordered Pizza Meat lovers for him and a cheese pizza for me. I am awoken to John David puking his guts out at three in the morning and he claimed that pizza hut had given him severe food poisoning. So I had to drive out to all five yards put in over 300 queen cells by myself. To this day John David still tells me how much that meant to him and how much that helped out World Honey Market. He was a great entrepreneur to learn from and can't wait to implements everything he taught me to my own business one day.
To be honest I enrolled in ENT3003 because I needed it for my Bachelors in Business Administration

but I can see now that I think I will enjoy this class.

2A- Bug List

1. My yard is infested with all sorts of wildlife ranging from ants, wasps, and birds .  
1. This is spring time so it is natural to have wildlife scurrying everywhere
2. After a year and half my landlord still has not screened in our back porch resulting in wasp, ant, and bird fly by's threatening our good times.
1.  My land lord is a very busy man with multiple other properties so we are low on his priority list
3. Less than a mile down my road there is an intersection that is getting very difficult to navigate. Macclenny is an ever growing city so there are many people here now that causes trying to cross two lanes of traffic with out a light on a single road is getting near impossible. 
1. Right after the intersection there are people getting off of I-10 so if there was a light the line could back up onto the interstate. It would also cost a lot of money to install a light.
4. Right before the stop sign there is a zaxbys which is probably the most popular fast food spot Macclenny has and there is now a huge four story hotel that is being built right behind zaxbys which is going to make so much traffic especially at that crappy stop sign.
1. The city is putting a hotel there because Macclenny is growing so fast and our police department has busted every other motel in town for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine.
5. I work at Walmart DC 6099 and the equipment we operate are called Center Riders and they run off of hydrogen. Unfortunately we have to fill our rides up very often so there is always a line at the fill up station.
1. Walmart uses hydrogen because it is cheaper than their old system and it is easier to maintain. It takes about five minutes to fill up now but the old system took almost 30 minutes. 
6. I am an order filler in the Freezer so my job is very simple. I play 3D tetris all day by stacking boxes into neat cubic pallets. The order that we get our boxes in and where each box is in the warehouse is called our profile. As of right now our profile is messed up we are losing workers and it is getting harder to stack certain trips as fast as I would like to.
1. The profile could be very easily and quickly changed by our Quality Assurance team but they let the over night haulers determine where new boxes and new slots go.
7. Walmart also just changed how we as order fillers wrap our trips. We used take our pallets to the staging area, drop it off, and start another trip while our loaders/ wrappers would wrap each trip and take it to the correct door. Now they have us as order fillers pull a trip, now wait in line to wrap our pallets, fix a problem or help a new wrap his awful pallet, take it to the door, THEN start a new trip. They also have not given us the proper amount of time so if I was running a 130% six months ago that is now a 100% which is stealing money from me.
1. So many whys to address here yet it all seriously boils down to money. They displaced 5 loaders/ wrappers so we could wrap our own pallets and they could save money by not paying those wrappers. They have not given us the proper time back because that would mean dishes out so much more money than they want to.
8.  Recently our perishable sides power went out for thirty minuets so our temperatures started warming up. To combat the warm temperatures they made it colder and have had the fans blowing nonstop so it is so cold right now.
1. It makes sense why Walmart is just protecting so much perishable goods it just sucks running so hard in an even colder climate. The ice cream room is usually -30 but it's around -40 still. 
9. Walmart just recently moved our lockers from perishable side to dry side. We not only have to walk further but I am dressed to run in a freezer so when I start walking around dry side trying to get to my locker I start heating up quick.
1. Walmart moved the lockers to add a whole other isle in the dry produce room to fix their profile. 
10. As an order filler I rely heavily on my equipment to not fail me so I have a good day and it is very rare for nothing to die on me all day. We have old center riders that die all the time, we finally got Bluetooth headsets that can run out of battery sometimes, and our talkman that also runs on a battery.
1. Walmart uses all of these because they were the cheapest option they could find. They got the hydrogen center riders knowing they die a lot but it was still cheaper, we got our Bluetooth headsets when amazon upgraded head sets because the ones we bought from them kept dying so much.
11. I just attended my girlfriends little sister graduation. She graduated from 3rd grade so they had it in the Glenn Baptist Church. We went to side down in empty seats and the little kid at they end of the row said he needed three extra seats and of course I was sitting in the 3rd seat so we all got up and moved a row back. The entire graduation happened which was an hour and thirty five minutes and that kid saved three seats for no body to show up!!
1. He told us he was saving seats for his family and we believed him. I have no idea why the family did not show up but it bugged everyone.
12. Just bought a pool table and I like treating it with great respect. I clean it after every use and I re-rack the table so when I come back to play it is already racked and I just have to break. My older brother on the other hand likes to leave in the middle of a game or will finish said game and wont re-rack the table.
1. My brother is just being plain lazy and does not want to show my beloved pool table the same amount of respect that I do.
13. I bought a cheap bed and bed frame from Walmart because I get a 10% discount and it was a nice bed. After six months the bed decided to start squeaking very loudly at the slightest of movements.
1. After six months of sleeping on a cheap Walmart bed frame without greasing up the pressure points I can understand some squeaking. I have since bought a new bed that does not squeak.
14. Just bought my girlfriend and I a new set of My Pillows because I was very pleased with my purchases. Unfortunately this time the pillow did not fluff up like it was supposed to.
1. I put the dryer on medium heat instead of high heat so the pillows did not fluff up the way they were supposed to. I have put the dryer on high heat and am letting it go for round two.
15. Last night we bought some hardees and their sweet tea tasted awful.
1. There are a lot of things that could have happened here. It could have been a newbies first week, the manager could have shown this person how to make sweet tea wrong, or this person was a Northerner and just like to make to make proper sweet tea.
16. Walmart's employee website Walmart One has now changed to Walmart Wire now and it has not worked properly this entire time.
1. It could be really hard to transfer all that data over and make a fully functional website but I feel if Walmart is paying to get this done they would try to get this huge issue fixed so their employees can look at their pay checks or look for new job opportunities.
17. Last week at work I went to the break room to take my lunch break and I could not find my food. Someone had moved my food all the way to the back so they could put their ginormous lunch box in front of every body even though on the front of the refrigerator it clearly says no lunch boxes!
1. Some one who is already inconsiderate decided to inconvenience my life so their life would be easier.
18. My neighbor has an obsession with taking care of his yard. He is literally out there everyday in the spring either weed eating or mowing his lawn for the fifth time this week.
1. He either really wants to get away from his wife or he takes a lot of pride in the way his yard looks.
19. I'm in charge of the trash at my house and my brother takes care of the lawn. With just four people living here we as humans create so much trash its astounding and makes me think about how many families there are and how much trash there is out in the world.
1. Our capitalistic economy runs off of people buying things. When you buy something there is almost always something to throw away.
20. The amount plastic that is in my house alone honestly scares me. I'm thinking about starting to recycle and see if I can make money on recycling so much plastic because just a family of four uses and discards so much plastic it is crazy to think about.
1. Once again this capitalistic economy runs on people buying things which are usually wrapped in all kinds of plastic. Plastic is inevitable and the only thing we can do is recycle.

This assignment was actually pretty cool. I got to think about what bugged me and why it exists. This will definitely carry on in my life when I get bugged by something I will instantly start asking why?