Kai's Blog

Opportunity: The opportunity that my venture seeks to take advantage of is need for the parents of highschoolers in Miami to save money on sending their kids to college. I believe in this being a real opportunity because of how much excess time and money children waste because they aren't sure why they are in college. Many students just jump into a major they think they might like and end up either unmotivated or just doing poorly in their classes. The average college student changes their major up to three times before graduating. Nearly 60% of students finish a 4 year degree in 6 years time according to the US Department of Education. If a parent is sending their child to a school like UM, that could mean up to 120,000 dollars wasted. Because of the nature of my solution revolving around helping kids explore their future major through at least 100 hours of community service (which is required to graduate highschool in Miami). Parents are usually getting their kids communit...

Exit strategy My exit strategy will be to eventually pass on the daily operations to a board of qualified individuals with a passion for community service. I will also be apart of this board so that I still has influence within the organization. Even in retirement from my main career I still see myself playing a role similar to this in the organization. I selected this option because this will allow me to focus on a career outside of my non-profit while still fulfilling the goals I set out to complete in the organization. I will probably serve as a board member during my retirement because I never enjoyed the idea of doing nothing work related during my retirement. Keeping myself at least somewhat invested into a project like this would make me happy.

Mindset Carol Dweck 1.This books main focus was to no surprise about people's Mindset. More specifically the Mindset if successful people. Dweck talks about the people who keep trying, keo practicing and eventually become a great success. The mindset she attributes to this kind of person is a "growth mindset". Dweck is fascinated by how impactful instilling the phrase "not yet", into struggling children can help with testing, learning, and overall success.She brings up examples of the teacher who brought a school from the bottom of the performance in their district to one of the best in the city testing wise.  2. I think this book relates well to the class because we focus a lot on changing our view of failure. It's important as an entrepreneur to embrace failure and learn how to do better from it. Someone with a fixed mindset would give up being an entrepreneur very quickly. 3. I think a great exercise for this class would be a take home project. ...

Failure- I failed to abandon habits of procrastination. Countless times this semester I have let studying wait till the last minute for exams. It has cost me better grades on a few of my tests. It has also caused me to develop bad habits of staying up late at night to get homework completed. I've tried setting reminders but they have ended up just becoming something I routinely ignore. It has in some areas allowed me to miss important deadlines in and out if school.  It's even harder now after my foot injury because I can't move as quickly as my now PACKED schedule demands. But it's only as packed as it is because of the things I out off in the last few weeks. In the long run it has made me more stressed.  I've learned that the harder and bigger the workload the less efficient putting off my work becomes. I learned that trying to do work and play in the same space is hard for me. Trying to get productivity done in the school library lately has been a help ...

 •  500 Dollars raised for current mission (it's important to have funding for fundraisers)  • Connection to Orphanage in Haiti (potential mission trip)  • Social media (advertising, reaching out to parents, donators ect.)  • Connection to Dorothy Mindingal (member of Miami-dade school board who I've done volunteering with before)  • Connection to ceo of non fir profit in miami dade/fort Lauderdale area (a good mentor for teaching me how to create grant applications, and find other sources of fundraising)  • connection to an accountant in Miami (had helped me start my non profit)   • a partner who has great knowledge in photography, and web design (need web design and photography for promotion)  • my own education in how business management works (will need this to run my own business)  • knowledge gained from my entrepreneurship course (this course has taught me many different things from my business management cour...

https://youtu.be/4AxfDf_C8n4 Reflection: For this pitch I decided to change a couple things. My location and the horizontal camera where the most apparent visual changes I made. This was due to some of the professors critiquing of my second pitch. I also expounded upon my connections, and the nature of my organization.  Looking back I realized it was not clear that my org is a non profit.  I made efforts to correct this in this latest pitch. Please let me know any adjustments I should make!