Another Opportunity for Successful Guest Speaker

Erik Hanberg is a successful business entrepreneur and a great author that has published number of different books including fiction, nonprofit sector and mystery. He also founded variety of business such as Side x Side, Horatio and so forth. Erik is also involved to support the community and contributes to a common good. He is now serving a board member of Metro-Parks Commission.

Even though I came late for the class that day. However, It was my second time I met Erik, and for listening Erik as a guest speaker in our class was very special to me, and I am really appreciated the opportunity that Prof. Andrew Fry give us to meet him again, listening and asked Erik questions about his internet success story. Which was an encouragement of how benefit the unlimited opportunity of technology today and how someone can achieve a great things by using the internet advantage is phenomenon.

However, the major takeaway of Erik’s speech were: Internet is an opportunity for creative and self-driven entrepreneurial individuals that are willing to succeed in the world of technology. If you are realistic about your dreams and you have the energy to promote yourself into a beautiful future, internet is yours, and it has unlimited open door for you to accomplish your goal of better life. Finally the Erik speech was a motivational that elevated our dream as a students. If Erik succeed the world of technology and become a self- publishing author of nine books, then anyone else can also succeed with excuse.

The Guest Speaker: Derek Young

Derek Young is a successful entrepreneur and small business promoter. After earning his undergraduate from University of Puget Sound in political science and chemistry. He landed his first professional job for REI as an IT support, but worked hard to promote way up to lead negotiator, and a program manager. However, after ten year of REI he decided to go back in school and pursued his MBA from University of Washington Tacoma. At the times, he started to create small business such as Seasonal View, Exit133, Suite133, and Tacoma Runners, and so many others.

As he mentioned during his speech in the class, Derek has a deep passion about creating small business and inventing new ideas to improving service industry. Where he has a plenty of expertise, and excellent experience for renovating how the companies can maintain a stable health businesses. Derek also explained very clearly, how his strategy of creating something new help him to reach a level where he feels boring or disengagement if he is not making any new business. Which is totally a unique approach how he adopted entrepreneurial mindset that works for him all the time.

Indeed, Derek had been talked so many important stuffs, but there are few takeaways that are necessary to remember all the time. Derek said during the speech “I was and still I am a guy that jumps the cliff and by the half way checks if he has a parachute”  which means if you want to create something do not worry about what will happen next, but start the work right away.  He also said if you want to create something “ it has to be solving a problem that existed and put there to tested” this means, If you have an invention, or you are establishing a new business it has to address issues which needs to be solved, and start to tested it before you deliver to the public.

Wonderful business Ideas

It is a human nature that everyone has to have a wonderful thoughts and Ideas of make money from a business someday. But the most fortune one are the people who executed their business dreams very well. Not only that but it also needs a thick skin and strong heart to bypass any initial obstacle at the beginning to establish a business. However, the right business idea lays the ground foundation of every successful business. And this is why I want to share with you my three great business ideas. So, in the upcoming passage, I am discussing each idea in detailed way.

To begin with the most obvious, I want to create an eCommerce website that provide services for East African countries and its population. For enables them to easily buy new and used products from the U.S manufacturing industry. By facilitating the business information between the two, where both sides have not had no prior business relation. It is also a good strategy to start this business when the East African market is growing hugely, and there is a high demand of different commodities that are need over there. So, this website will help the customers to find or buy products from the U.S by using their local languages.

Another great business idea I want to implement is; to make a mobile application that may help customers to save time and money. When it come to shopping from small grocery stores. This application will enable for its users to find the closest grocery store in their area. Then the customer can send a text to that specific storekeeper for ordering the items which the customer needed and the time customer will arrive to pick up the order. At the same time, the storekeeper will make the grocery ready into the counter.

Finally, the I want to start a small software company that builds web application and other technology that are related for building web, such as  logo, prototyping, SEO and graphical related works. This will also help me to implement my other business ideas.