This entrepreneurial journey has had its many ups and down. It felt like to took us forever to come up with and idea for our product and then we were devastated when we found out we got scooped by the Breeze. We then had to move to a new concept and came up with Making Moves. It was extremely stressful trying to make the time to sell advertisements, put the book together,and sell it but in the end we not only reached the the $200 mark we passed it and made $312. Its be great seeing all of our hard work come to life in our product and produce value as we sold it. It was like having a baby and then seeing it graduate and leave the nest.
By far the hardest part of being an entrepreneur was finding the time to get everything done. Actually making the books, going out and selling ads, and then printing and selling the books themselves. Just finding the time to get everything done in the semester was challenging but in the end we got it done.
Our advise for future classes would be to come up with an idea that is feasible very early and start working on it right away. One of our mistakes was taking to long to come up with an in idea and then we had to scramble a little to pull everything together in enough time to start selling. I think that had we started earlier we could have had the book ready in time for Choices and would have made alot more money by selling to parents and visiting students. So our best advice for them is to get started right aways so they can take advantage of all the opportunities JMU has to offer and can create most value.
Over all this experience has be both challenging and very rewarding and we wish the best of luck to future entrepreneurs in this course :)
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