Testing the Hypothesis Part.1 (In Progress)

1.) The opportunity I would like to pursue is a short term real-estate and private security contracting venture into the Colorado green rush.

2) Immigrants to Colorado's green rush are in need of places to live and operate their new businesses as well as a service that can protect their assets and cash from theives and federal seizure. 

• The who: Colorado Immigrants
• The what: They cannot effectively find places to live, operate business, and protect cash/assets produced by the federally illegal industry.
• The why: The green boom cause a skyrocket increase in the demand for property and housing as well as a need for protection of hard cash assets from federal seizure or opportunist thieves.

3) Forming the hypothesis:

• Testing the who: There is a constant universal need for real estate as well as for the securing valuable assets however, there is a very large and desperate need for it in Colorado but it wont last for more than a few years.
• Testing the what: The boundaries for the need are specifically limited to Colorado and other states who legalize recreational use of marijuana. The biggest challenge lays within protecting assets gained or used in the trade of the substance from federal seizure as federal law technically overrules the local law.
• Testing the why: The reasons against my business idea or "the why's": Small business owners will argue they can operate and secure the business from home and there will no longer be a need for security services as soon as it gets federally legalized. Both are valid points however, Colorado does not allow businesses of that kind to operate from a domestic household and without proper legal and physical protection they put not only their livelihood in danger but their physical safety as well.

4) Interviews:

Interviews to be uploaded soon. Currently experiencing technical difficulties. 

Looking for an Opportunity

1.

a.  Economic Trends

- The EU is projected to his an economic crash and crisis soon.

- India projected to be the newest growth leader in the world.

b.  Regulatory Change

- Legalization of marijuana in Colorado doesn't only benefit pot growers, sellers, and consumers.

- Florida removing any federal regulations on Agritourism.

2. Details about previously mentioned opportunities:

- EU projected crash

a. International Business Times

b. When a market crashes, governments are eager to restimulate growth and will pass laws to incentivize new companies and remove barriers for entry into the market.

c. People in the currency trading sector as well as those trying to enter the market in any other way will find lower buying prices, looser employment regulations, and better real-estate available for cheaper. Entrepreneurs and Start-ups are encouraged to capitalize on this opportunity.

d. It's a relatively easy opportunity to exploit although smaller companies with a lower starting budget and less investors may struggle initialy.

- India's economic growth

a. Fortune Magazine 2016 Economic Trends

b. Since India is the worlds largest growing market, the government and investors are really working hard to find new industries and open production plants. There are many chances to capitalize on this emerging market or the construction industry as the country will need all kinds of new infrastructure to handle the growth.

c. Any company who wants to build a new factory or plant as well as cities/providences who wish to expand transportation infrastructure and government amenities. 

d. It is a great opportunity for construction and companies who are trying to manufacture tech/items to exploit but still pretty tough to get into otherwise.

- Colorado green rush (of pot)

a. CNBC: Colorado Green Rush

b. Colorado's green rush provides a great opportunity for new companies to emerge and not just in the weed market but others as well. There's an old saying that is "It's great to be a pickaxe and shovel salesman during a gold rush."

c. The target audience is the marijuana migrants who will need housing, cars, rental equipment, loans, and asset protection.

d. Once again the housing, car, rental equipment, loan, and asset protection industries would greatly benefit from this.

- Removal of federal regulations on FL agritourism.

a. FL Laws Website

b. Places like orange farms, berry picking farms, horse ranches, diving, fishing and airboat tours will have less barriers of entry into the market which allows them to be more profitable quicker.

c. The customer who will be most effected is the tourists who will find better quality, lower priced local tourist opportunities and tourism is a huge mainstay to Florida's economy.

d. The tourism industry will be able to capitalize and exploit the deregulation and be more profitable however, it wont really open up any chances for anyone else.

3. I believe I am interested in capitalizing on openings in foreign markets because I have spent a good bit of time abroad and my father has been working overseas my entire life. The other opportunities I found were because they related to my major (Agriculture & Resource Economics) and the other one I found because my brother is a real-estate broker and mentioned it in an offhand conversation.

My solution

A problem found in a newspaper identified in  my "Identifying Local Opportunities" post drew attention to inefficient schooling in the Pinellas County Area of Florida. An easy way to solve this is to remove the county's ability to fully fund and regulate schools while removing any taxes related to funding them in the area and pass responsibility into private schooling that meets a certain minimum standard. This allows the schools, students, and teachers to compete to provide the best education at the lowest cost possible. In the long run, it could save citizens millions and vastly improve the quality of service provided by schools and teachers. My solution: remove or reduce barriers of entry into the education market within that area to encourage entrepreneurs to take over such as a company I would start to provide high quality, unbiased schooling at a reasonable price.

Identifying Local Opportunities

Prompt: find 5 local newspaper articles and analyze them on these 5 categories.
- Title of the article
- A link to the article
- Description of story
- Problem presented in the story
- Description of who has the problem

5 opportunities:

1.
- House built by Santa Fe College students delivered to Gainesville family.
- Link to Article
- Local students in the Construction Department of Santa Fe College delivered the house that they built as part of their program as a donation to habitat for humanity.
- The problem in the story is that families within the area still don't have a suitable place to live. Santa Fe College has decided to tackle that problem head on by building and donating homes as part of charity and education.

2.
- At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction.
- Link to Article
- In Florida, the fresh restaurants as well as farm-to-table eateries make bold and false claims to freshness and locality.
- Farm-to-table and high class restaurants are making false claims and fooling customers.
- Consumers are being tricked into overpaying for non-fresh and not local foods.

3.
- How riding your bike can land you in trouble with the cops — if you're black.
- Link to Article
- Tampa PD is targeting minorities with unnecessary bike citations and fines disguised as a prevention method for curbing bike theft
- Tampa PD is fining citizens excessively for minor infractions, more than the other major cities in FL combined.
- Minorities and people who ride bikes around town are falling victim to unfair ticketing.

4.
- District leaders turned five once-average schools into Failure Factories.
- Link to Article
- Part of the election campaign for Pinellas Co. officials involved the undoing of school integration with the promise of increased funding and staff for lower income schools.
- Pinellas County officials severely hurt the local education program.
- Local citizens are fed up with low quality schooling.

5.
- A Tampa Bay home inspector shares tales of critter encounters and what he's found in the attic.
- Link to Article
- Local home inspectors find unsettling damage and critters too common in homes.
- Homeowners are bamboozled by the inadequacies and hazards that they would've otherwise been unable to find.
- Prospective home buyers are effected by the properties that end up as surprisingly low quality lemons and are hit with surprise expenses they would've otherwise been able to avoid with a home inspector.

Bug List

Top 20 things that bug me and what reason it may happen.

Bugs:

1. When people "suck their teeth making that clicking noise.

There is no reason people do this.

2. When people don't respond or take a ridiculously long time to respond to a message.

Sure the person may actually be busy, but it's more of a blatant disrespect to the sender.

3. When people stop to make a turn while driving with no turn signal.

It may be a sudden decision turn or maybe they forgot every car is equiped with one. It's irresponsible either way.

4. When driver's don't look and almost run me over on my motorcycle when changing lanes

I know motorcycles are hard to see sometimes but maybe put your phone away for 5 minutes while controlling a 2 ton death machine.

5. When people "snuff" others; rejecting them because they don't consider it worth the time.

What makes people do this is smugness: a belief that they are somehow better than other people for whatever reason.

6. When others take their phone out mid conversation.

Maybe they have a phone call coming in or they feel like checking texts. Regardless, its super rude unless it's answering a call.

7. Anti war and anti soldier activists.

I understand people don't like war and that's perfectly fine but punishing soldiers who keep you free to express your world views is just ignorant.

8. Newberry, 34th, or Archer during rush hour. The roads here are too small.

Compared to other metropolitan areas of a similar size, the roads in Gainesville are rather narrow and lacing in number of lanes, thus congesting traffic.

9. Any time people whine.

We get it. You're having a hard time. So is everyone else.

10. Lack of physical fitness without any reason.

Unless you're physically disabled, there's no excuse to be incredulously fat. Put down a fork and go for a run.

11. When parents let their kids scream.

This shows complete lack of discipline in both parent and child. I understand the parent may be tired and try to zone it out, but it's at the cost of annoying everyone around you.

12. Acne breakouts; I'm too old and clean to be getting them anymore they need to stop.

I wash my face regularly and am well over 20. Why are hormones doing this to me?

13. People with pencil thin beards. Commit to having one or being shaven. Stop going in between.

I mean it's probably for a fashion statement but it looks dumb and indecisive.

14. When my dog just refuses to stop barking.

He might try to be getting my attention or see something that spooks him but I need to find a way to get him to stop.

15. When people lack discipline ie; talking at inappropriate times or lack of commitment to any goals

Maybe someone didn't teach them manners, or maybe they've never had to do anything important or urgent before.

16. When people ignore the lessons of history and keep making the same exact mistake.

Socialism and communism collapses, the only way to stop an evil man with a gun is more good men with guns. Don't ignore what happened in the past because"history doesn't repeat but it rhymes quite nicely."- Mark Twain

17. People who enjoy watching golf and tennis... what are you even doing with your life?

The only reason to watch them is if you play, used to play, or are related to the person competing. Otherwise it's a complete waste of time and has no entertainment value.

18. Leaving a huge mess at someone else's place and not cleaning it up.

Why do adults do this? Were they not taught manners? Who knows!?

19. Stolen valor: when people impersonate a soldier.

People do this for a number of reasons: admiration, desire for respect, the glory of war heroes, benefits at stores. Any reason it may be: It's wrong and you need to correct yourself. Men and Women have died wearing that uniform, don't dare to disrespect it or the flag they represent.

20. Incompetence: When people can't do the job they've been trained to do or perform simple tasks.

The reason this happens is because of poor supervision and lack of discipline.

I didn't have too much trouble coming up with the 20 bugs or why they bother me because a lot of little things bother me. The root cause of them are almost all related to ignorance, incompetence, and lack of discipline.

My Entrepreneurship Story

Prompt:
think of a time in your life when you have been exposed to entrepreneurship and tell us about that experience. Perhaps you led some new project in middle school? Perhaps your parents are serial entrepreneurs? Perhaps you once met a cool entrepreneur and can share some insights with us about that meeting? 

Second, I would like you discuss why you enrolled in ENT 3003 and what you hope to get out of the class. 

I have recently had an amazing experience with entrepreneurship first hand when learning from my brother's amazing success just 5 years after college. This year he opened up his own real-estate firm in his hometown and is projected to sell over 5 million dollars worth of property this year. If he receives just 1% of the profits, that's over $50k! I Aspire to be like him or find a way to excel even more than he did after receiving an MBA.
I enrolled in ENT3003 because I believe every student in any field of study should learn the basics of Entrepreneurship as it is not only the lifeblood of modern economy as well as the basis of running any business.

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