My Entrepreneurship Story

It is interesting to look at my life in an entrepreneurial mindset, as it is a mindset that I have seldom had before. In my life, with the advancement of technology and consumer information, everything I have done has been in the consuming mindset. What I never realized is that everywhere around me, and in everyday situations of my life there are entrepreneurs, and opportunities to make myself an entrepreneur. As this course has kicked off, I have found it difficult to think of opportunities and situations where I can be an entrepreneur. For brainstorming purposes, I felt it would be best for me to begin by thinking of and observing people around me that are entrepreneurs. I immediately thought of an acquaintance of mine who I went to high school with, his name is Spencer, and I would consider him to be an entrepreneur. Spencer began his own lawn care service as a side job for a source of income back before I knew him in high school. From what I gathered, Spencer just really liked to work outdoors and looked for a way to make money doing something that he loved. He capitalized on this as he worked with more and more "clients" who were the families around our community who needed their lawns maintained. Now this was not a foreign concept by any means. Driving down the streets I see an array of lawn care businesses throughout the neighborhoods. What I didn't realize is just how wide of a market a lawn care business can reach, and just how successful it could be. Spencer grew his service into a company, with logos, and trucks, and trailers, and advanced equipment, and he even began hiring fellow classmates as he had too many clients to handle just by himself. Spencer has turned this lawn care business into a career and he is expanding his services to things like irrigation and is servicing places like golf courses instead of just community homes. It has been interesting to observe the ways Spencer birthed an idea, put it into motion, and adapted with his market and his acquired skills and knowledge. A lawn care business is not unique by any stretch, but what is unique is Spencer, and his ability to grow it into something that not many others could have.

Pictured is Spencer with his truck and trailer.

This is why I enrolled in this course. By no means do I think this course is going to automatically make me a successful entrepreneur, but the main thing I hope to get out of this class is the mindset that I referenced earlier. I hope to have the mindset of an entrepreneur, where I can see a problem, and just as easily see a potential solution. It's not even that I want to start my own business or I have a great idea I want to run with, but having this mindset I feel is a crucial skill to have to take with me in my professional and even personal life.