I bet Godzilla could survive the dot.bomb

The internet....
That's it, the end.





No not really "the end," but could you imagine if I left my post off like that? IMAGINE IT I SAID!!!!
Sucks right? Bet you'd think I was either retarded, lazy, or thought that I would be thinking I was "deep" or some crap like that. Well I'm not....I'm all of those. I just happen to like writing silly blog posts, so the "lazy" portion dies down somewhat.
But not completely.

Anyway. Monday, March 8th 2010, was probably the greatest class I have ever had, ever. Ever. Dinosaurs? ENOUGH SAID!
In all serious though, I felt like a child in elementary school. Objects were used to teach things, and the small portion of my brain that stores all of my childhood memories was in 'lala-land.' I have no idea why, but I felt like things just soaked in....perhaps a portion of my brain is still like that of a little baby. A mushy little sponge ready to soak up education from ways of toy dinsaurs and traveling spanish girls with pet monkies (Dora the Explora reference for those that don't get it). Regaurdless, I never knew of a more perfect example of mass destruction, and T-Rex consuming action then to use toy dinos to explain the growth and then painful demolition of the Dot.Com era.
What a beautiful thing.
However, the failure did get me thinking.

What if Godzilla was apart of this era? A dino/Japanese monster/lizzard icon that can shoot lazers from it's mouth, that could stand it's own in the Dot.Com boom? Well it would be as awesome as cowboys riding dinos with tanks for arms!
....I should write that down.
The point is, had Godzilla been there, there would be no end to the era. Because Godzilla owns, pure and simple.

You + Door = Fired

What to say about Michele Armstrong, our guest speaker of the day....honestly, nothing negative comes to mind. I can honestly say that out of all of the guest speakers, I felt like the most soaked into my brain with her presentation.
Sure, I asked many-a-questions, and most (all) were questioned in a witty and extremely sarcastic manor that I present, but she answered them all...and they all made prefect sense.

When she mentioned that she posted her company's job offerings on places like Craig's List, Facebook, and Twitter, I was almost shocked. No offense, but when I think of Twitter, I think of Miley Cyrus tweeting a twat about her new highlights, or some other bull, not some mature company posting a "hiring" list. Of course, I had to ask, doesn't it diminish the company? Doesn't it lower your name, who you are?
Apparently not.
For start up businesses, it's the best. It's not a low-life scam of sorts, it can be my greatest assets! So thank you Craig's List. Free advertisement without the shame!

Asides from the advertisement standards, there was the bigger portion. How to run a company on a employee basis. After all, one man cannot run this alone....well they could, but they would likely fail terribly. I realized things that I need to successfully complete my business plan, for the long term, because making my employees happy means they won't find out where I live and stab me in my sleep.

Call Centers -- those automated voices aren't recordings, they're really just heartless people.

While I was told by guest speaker Derek Young, when I had asked him in class if "he provided the heart for IT people who had none," that it wasn't his exact way of saying it, I knew he meant he was TOTALLY on my side.
In all honesty though, to me, call centers have been known as the dread of society. The butt of our jokes, which is why we outsource them with people halfway across the world, which instead of being a joke as turned itself into some sort of stereo-type. Is that better? Maybe. Is it wrong for me to think it is? You bet!
Regardless, what Young's company Seasonal View provides, is an embrace to telecommunications of the world.
Of course this brings me back to the IT guys. What Young secretly, totally, did not say, but I know he was thinking, was that IT guys are heartless, social-outcasts. Which is why he is there to help those awkwards deal with people so that they can better their business...and maybe ask a girl out on a date. Alright, they can at least do the first one, they can't work miracles, clearly.

Personally, I felt a bit intimidated by Derek Young. He was nice, smart, and a sick passion for business that all Entrepreneurs have. His only downside was his habit of grabbing dry-erase markers. Could be a comfort of holding markers in his hand...I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
Despite that though, I think Young has a thing against IT guys. He provides his humanity skills to people (in which he didn't say, but if I could read thoughts I bet this one was there) whom have none. He believes he is a success in placing himself in society, he knows his place and is involved with the culture of it (hence Exit 133 and it's success). If I was an IT guy myself (but I'm not cause I'm a lady) I might be offended by those many things he didn't say.



HAVE TO ADD EXTRA STUFF
So, I'm adding this in, mostly cause I have to...thanks.
But guest speakers.
I must say for everyone my class has had, I've opened my mouth at least once. I feel it shows a value of respect for the speakers. But...if I were to be asked "how many times I've questioned our speakers" well that would be just impossible. Wouldn't it?
I don't keep track of my questions, I just know it's at least one for each, and sometimes more.
The End.

The Who, the What, and the How of the Crazies: A Moment with Bruce Kendall

You might be reading this and thinking: "Oh wow, The Crazies?...that's like that movie The Crazies! You know, that one that looks really, really, re-he-lay bad. The one that's essentially a zombie movie, where they replace zombies with crazy people...hence the name." Well get that thought out of your head! Dear god, do you really think I would ever talk about such a terrible movie?....unless of course it were to reference what I think you would have thought what I had been thinking of.
And...if you were not thinking that in the first place...well good for you.

What this is actually about is my revelation.
What kind of revelation, you may ask (and in this blog YOU WILL ALWAYS ASK). Well it's a revelation of how entrepreneurs are completely insane. I mean it. There is little difference between a homeless man, in the city of Seattle, shouting in the street, than that of an entrepreneur....except, perhaps an office, or a suite.
I owe no one other than Bruce Kendal, economic developer in Peirce County, for this insight.

Honestly...it didn't take Mr. Kendal for me to discover this, actually I knew it at about three guest speakers ago.
In all honesty, I didn't think much about Mr. Kendal. I found his approach rather...dry. However, his passion was clear about entrepreneurship, which is mainly what ensures my hypothesis on the entrepreneur-insanity. Even still, I found it difficult to listen and let his words fully register in my brain...which resulted in my notebook being filled with scribbles of dinosaurs instead (at least no one can say I wasn't being proactive, right?).
I normally don't enjoy behaving as rude as this, because I am a perfect student,and anyone who disagrees should give me their home address. Regardless, Kendal disappointed me in his delivery. He brought my hopes up with his opening words, saying "no discussion about economics can start without talking about your high-school or college mascot." Which of course brought in the questioning of our (the classes) previous mascots, which aloud momentary banter that was quiet enjoyable. But then came the desert of dryness, that long-going power-point, that was delivered in a way that reminded me of the teachers and parents in a "Peanuts" cartoon.
But enough of the complaints. The point is I learned something, little, but at least it was something.

It doesn't matter if it is Spider Man, he won't help building out your company with that on...

The idea that I have decided to pursue in my awesome of all awesome ideas, is that of a product I have personally entitled as a "What's-it."
What's a "What's-it?"
You may ask, and of course you may ask, because in my head and in my blogs, all of my readers adore me and wish to know what it is that I am at work with....because they recognize my genius.
Well, ha! You would like to know....so you can steal my idea, and claim it as your own, well I'm smarter than that.....I got you fooled, didn't I? Of course.

I will say this much though. What I am creating is some sort of online, mobile application. It is something that would be available online freely, but on the profitable side it would be accessible as a phone application, where it would work more efficiently and actually pin-point a users location to direct them to what it is the service offers.
But how can I build this out?
I'm spiffy with a pencil, and graphic designs are a strength of mine. That, and I know how to stretch a dollar. But one man (or woman.....since I have the lady parts) cannot do it alone.

While financially I am in a hole. In my own little dream world I do have money.
So, if I were to start this business, I have an idea or two up my sleeves.

Personally I find an application company, a small gig....to start at least.
My company wouldn't need more than say....ten to thirteen people to start.
Since most of the process involves online data gathering, I would need at least four data collectors for the application. Preferably there would be two to collect information on surrounding stores, and two for restaurants. I would have two to connect to satellite maps that would register to users through their cellphones to pinpoint their locations and show them surrounding locations. That leads to six employees already for the technical mumbo-jumbo.
From there I would need one website designer that would monitor online data for mainstream users and the application for mobile users. Then I would need a graphics designer to make cool little do-dads that are appealing to the public eyes.
I would need two PR representatives, one that would spread the word of "What's-it" for commercial use, and one to gather reviews that would be available for the application for users to see (reviews would be both from critics and from general users).
I would need someone to answer office phones as well.....cause I hate doing that....dear god. Preferably someone that can handle customer service calls too....at least for the beginning of the business.

But before ANY of this. I would need a few lawyers, and an accountant to handle the money, so I can blame them for my problems and slap them.....not literally though....well maybe.

I believe the company should start out small, perhaps joining in a partnership with a popular cellular phone, like the iphone.....or....others.
Most of the jobs are juggling more than one task, which creates, what I believe, a great way to have a mix of titles, and a balanced of importance. Every part is equally important in the company.
Which in turn creates a happy family......but I have the power to fire them from the job-family....which is kinda awesome.

Please give me money for my "man-purse"

It's strange when you have a guest speaker, and the two main things you're left with are that he's good with money...and he was never shot at in a previous job. Personally I think dodging a bullet or two would make his stories more interesting. But hey, that's just me.

To be honest, after hearing John Dimmer talk, it was almost like being pushed down a flight of stairs and told to start back at step one.
...unless you like....die as you hit the bottom, then I suppose it would be hard to start again.
Regardless, to hear that John Dimmer started his role as an entrepreneur with nothing in mind twisted at my gut. His passion wasn't lead on an idea, but just to have his own business. Where's the passion toward the product in that? Sure, if you have passion in the job, I'm sure that simply pushing on the rush of business alone can give you an adrenalin boost but that's not what I thought this was all about.
I mean, how can you sell a product like a man-purse if you have no confidence for it, but only for the drive of the business?

Perhaps it's me that is wrong.
But this is my blog, so in these pages I am always right.
So we'll just say you need passion for both...or something.

Another thing that twisted at me, was his higher stand for the entrepreneur. His "entrepreneurs always think on a different angle then the rest of the world" speech. Not that I didn't appreciate his opinion, but I went to a freakin' art school for three years, and if everyone there didn't think a little bit differently than the rest of the world too....then I don't know what.
Perhaps I as just a bit offended. Not saying he's not special, or he doesn't think he's different than most. But originality comes from where you think of it (which doesn't make it so original to personal-self, but roll with me here), I should know, I am completely loony.

The pros and cons, comparing Spongebob to Jon Goodman.

Let me begin this blog by telling the summary of an episode of one of the greatest cartoons of all time....Spongebob Squarepants.
In one particlar episode of Spongebob Squarepants, entitled Chocolate with Nuts, Spongebob and his loyal friend Patrick diced to become *drum-roll* entrepreneurs!
I know, right? What seven-year-old watching this show wouldn't know they were talking about?!?!
Any-who, the episode begins with Spongebob waiting for the mail, after receiving it, he discovers a magazine entitled "Fancy Living." After Spongebob' neighbor Squidward comes to retrieve the magazine that is really his (apparently their mailman isn't good), Spongebob asks his neighbor just how did those people in the magazine get so rich (rich enough for the fish inside to have shoes!). Squidward replies "They're entrepreneurs, they sell things." From this, Spongebob and Patrick decide they would like to be rich, and that they should sell thins as entrepreneurs.
The two decide to become traveling chocolate bar salesman. At first it doesn't go so well, the two become distracted, and they eventually sit down to think of tactics to get ahead in the game. Patrick offers the idea of getting naked, but Spongebob insists that they save that for selling real-estate.
By the end of the 11 minute episode the two eventually become greatly successful (actually one customer buys all of their chocolate bars)...and that's it, the end.

This of course relates to the next topic....

Jon Goodman.
And no that's not a typo. Trust me, I know how you feel. When I hear the name "John Goodman," I instantly think of an overweight man that played Fred Flintstone in the "real-life" movie of the old cartoon.
But this Jon Goodman is minus the "H" and a certain man part....because the he is actually a she. And therefore not a man.

Anyway, how do these two relate? Well they relate in the negative side...so technically they do not really relate at all. The two support completely different ideals.
Within her lecture, Jon Goodman said "Those that become an entrepreneur to get rich, will never be rich." Yet, to rebuttle, to get rich and have a "fancy living" is exactly the reason that Spongebob and Patrick became entreprenures...for a day..or 11 minute cartoon episode, but that is asides the point.
The point is the CHILDREN. What are they being told? That it's all about the money? Well for shame Spongebob.

In all honesty though, through Jon Goodman's lecture, it was this episode of Spongebob that entered my mind over and over again. It made me laugh how her words seemed to sync up with the episode.
Jon Goodman said "Failure is an extraordinary experience," and in the beginning that was what Spongebob faced. She said that "there is no such thing as a new idea," and Spongebob and Patrick took their idea for a marketing scheme (which was to lie to the customer) from a billboard.
The two do have things in common, even if aiming for opposite purposes.
Where the talking sponge and starfish are for profit, the woman with the same name as the guy who played Fred Flintstone and who is impossible to find in a google search is for passion.

It is not a strength to know you have none....

Weaknesses and Strengths.
That's right kids we all have them, and in order to be sucessful in life you have to point out what makes you strong and weak, or you'll grow up to be a big-fat loser who never amounts to anything. You're parents will be forced to tell you that you were a mistake too.

Now what about me? You may ask, and even if you didn't, this is my blog so I'm going to tell you whether you like it or not.
So, to get a little personal.....
But not that pathetically sappy way, or in that "oh no he didn' Jerry, that's his baby," other way.

I know what my strengths are, to a certain extent. I know I'm creative, a hard worker, a little bit original...which tends to not really make me a leader, but not a follower either. Oh, and I know how to work the google on the internet-thingy.
Seriously though, I'm damned smart, and I've been through alot (which means my autobiography will be filled with things people will accuse as lies. Or at least Oprah will), and a perfectionist...which means what I create as GOD of my creations, will be MIND BLOWING.
On the opposite side. I do suck. At A LOT of things. Well...it's more like I annoy myself for things. For example, I stress alot, which is bad....but it's also apparently good? I mean, stressing is a sign you care about what you're doing, your work, your business, so it can't be all bad. Also, because I'm a perfectionist, to the point where I have mild OCD problems, things HAVE to be a certain way. Which means people that work with me either have to not care, or just learn to be like me....or I'll kill them.

To say things of a speaker

Five steps.
To think all this time all I had to do, was sum up my business in five steps.
Identify the audience.
Outline the plan.
Write the plan.
Review the plan.
And lastly...update the plan, again and again.

Why update? Because chances are what you have isn't right. So you fix it, and then fix it again....because the world is an ever changing thing and what you fix once you will need to fix ten time over. It's why I must update my iTunes ever single month from iTunes 9.0.1 to 9.0.2 (which has practically no difference to the previous one. However I do hear that iTunes 9.0.3 will have that dancing baby that was so popular in the 1990's in the top right corner (if you take me seriously by now when I say these things I pity you).

Other than the fact that what I do will never be quite perfect, the words of Ron Kornfeild weren't keen to me. I was still left wondering.
I'm still left in a financial hole, and to gain profits I only know of two things: get into massive credit debt, or take my idea to people on the streets and beg for money. Then again, Ron did mention that the only difference between a crazy man on the street and an entrepreneur, was a business plan.
Perhaps I should have asked him his approach on the topic though. How did he get to where he was? Stepping on the little people? Stealing purses from ladies? Just how did he get where he is today?

I'll just have to remember the question for next time.

The growing costs of economical problems....and five basic (still in progress) business ideas...

Now where to begin....
Today is the day/post/assignment/"I have no choice but to do this" where I must place down five business ideas.

First thought to enter the head is simply a "what?"

Honestly, where to begin? When an idea is placed in the head that says, "okay there...think of five good ideas for business." It's hard to not feel left out to dry up. Business is a difficult thing. First of all I have to think, what classifies? An idea? An invention?....or a service?
Secondly...of course. There is an issue of cost. How do I know I'm not biting off more than I can chew? It's not like I have some relative that is rich and might have me in their will, so I can be around when a terrible accident happens.
So where ca I go from there? Something cheap, or something free to start up at....and to hopefully gain some profit to benefit people.

After a few long....procrastinated moments. An idea came.
Online of course.
Why it is a massive resource that is usually free (minus a rising monthly fee for it).

Soon ideas came.
The first had to do with some massive online database, similar to an online mall. While ideally it would be used as a cellphone application that could pinpoint your location from the phone to find nearby stores to find the product you're searching for, without having to go to many different shops to only be left disapointed.
For a second idea, kinda stretching on the same idea, an online application would be used, preferably an application for a cellphone, but instead of shops...it would be used for restaurants. The application would find nearby eateries and offer price ranges to meet budgets, reviews, contact information for restaurants (which, if using a phone, you could contact them instantly), and hours of operation.
The third idea that hit my head was something for mobile transportation. I followed onto a recently relative problem that I had to deal with, for this solution. I was recently in a car accident, where the driver totaled my car in the process. Now because I had insurance I was offered a rental car, but most kids/students my age would be left without transportation in such a situation. Their only option would be bus or walk. To most people that's not an option. So the service I would offer would be some sort of rental service aimed for a younger audience, for transportation. The catch would be cheaper vehicles, not meant for highway, mostly city related vehicles, such as mopeds or smart cars.
Fourth idea is for my passion of travel, an online resource to offer students to travel without fear, but in comfort. It would be an application that could be used on the computer or phone, that could allow students to tour/study abroad with an online course, enabling the high costs that most studying abroad ensure, allowing students to pick their own flights and to view and appreciate things at their own enjoyment. It would also be available for others to use as a touring device that would not include the lessons, assignments, or tests that students would have to enlist in.
Finally, because I was thirsty in-class, the last idea would be an in-home installed, rain-water filter. Attached to the roof of a home, the filter would collect pure and clean rainwater and deliver it into a storage system that could would be connected to the house. Primarily the water would be used for drinking purposes but if enough is stored, then it could be used for other purposes like bathing and for dish washers and cloth washers.

.....and that's about it.
The End.

The "what were they thinking?.....no really." ideals in life.

Look at this image....no, seriously. Look at it. Tell me the first thing in your head isn't some interjection like "WHAT?!?" Tell me you don't get slightly upset, or laugh, and then get upset again, and then go punch some random person in the street.....or is that just me?
With all honesty though, someone actually thought this was a good idea. Why?
In what way could this fit a line of success? Did someone think that having a cell phone in their pocket was such an inconvenience that they decided to strap a collar around the neck and add a pocket there for convenience? If business plans are meant to fall into two categories; operational plans, and plans designed to attract investors, then where does this fit in?
Dear Lord. (this isn't a rhetorical question by the way, someone please answer this)

True. Inventions and entrepreneurship are two completely different things, but they are also very similar. Inventors create things in mind in order for their creations to complete a service, just like entrepreneurship (however, skills and favors and tools are in mind versus a strait unified object).
But through this absurdity, can this even dare to be called an invention? The idea of such a thing as a "neck fanny pack" causes me to cringe and wake up in night sweats.
To put it straight, I am glad, even if it was a once thought of creation, it was not a successful one. The original fanny pack was bad enough.

No this isn't just a "can I has cheezeburger?" post.

Now I know that successful business, is one set around a trend. Whether it's a 1980's Wendy's ad following the motto "where's the beef" in order to sell more greasy burgers into the ever growing mouth of American's, or the creation of fanny packs sending a trend for the average tourist in order to send a message out to surrounding people "hey, I have no sense of fashion! Please don't associate with me!" The point is that trends and business plans go hand in hand like me and my coffee (it's an unhealthy relationship, but a good one all the same).
However, in relation to the unhealthy relationship, trends tend to change. Whether a new month, new season, new year, the opinion of millions change and for that trends die, and with it businesses die along beside it. That is of course unless the business brutally rips apart it's previous relationship with the trend in order to find a new trend that will keep it afloat for the next few months until that too dies out, and a cycle will form.
Now....to explain the picture at hand.
Sayings. Simply put. From "I've fallen and I can't get up," "I'm lovin' it," "Ch-ch-ch-chia," "snap into a slim-jim," "red-bull gives you wings," "choose life," "I'm a PC," "droid does," and so on and so-forth until the day we die, that a picture of a cat saying "I can has cheezeburger?" doesn't seem so off.
The popularity of the absolutely absurd saying has grown so popular that its begun to market itself into product like books and buttons and t-shirts, so now you can walk around on the street and people can stop and point and have a cheap laugh. But it is a trend and luckily it will eventually die a slow and painful death.
Thank God.

Being independent doesn't mean be a loner.

The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook.

I know, sounds like a page turner doesn't it?
Well it's required reading, so back off.....
Regardless there were a few points that stuck in the brain, as much as the eating effects of carbs has to increasing my pant size.
There was alot of negative "poo-poos" to the first few pages of the book. In a sum, if you think entrepreneurship is simply an idea and pile of cash to bathe in, then think again!
What?!
Not even a flip of the page and already your dreams are destroyed?
The key word, is passion. Entrepreneur's need passion.
Within the first chapter of the honorable "Guidebook" called Entrepreneurship, by Reggie Aggarwal and Mark Esposito. The two go onto say:

For example, entrepreneurs always have passion. Entrepreneurs live and breathe their business enterprises. They are zealots about their business models and are evangelical about their products or services. They have to be. If they weren't, the stress and financial pressures of running a fledgling business would completely wipe them out. The sheer magnitude of the odds that are stacked against entrepreneurs requires a special kind of irrational exuberance to overcome. Entrepreneurs have unshakable confidence in and enthusiasm for their business ventures that contagiously spreads to their business team.

Breath business?
Personally I find that a bit toxic to breath in. Nonetheless it is a good ideal to take in. Why commit to something you have no desire in? After all if you have no passion in something you're trying to put out toward the public, then how can the public ever truly be passionate about it either?
The example presented is something that is rather bluntly put out. To the point.
It makes perfect sense, that with lack of passion means lack of control, which means increase in stress and a failing business. Passion is key.
While knowing that to succeed in entrepreneurship is almost as rare as becoming a successful writer, actor, singer....and making it seem all the more impossible, passion is key, and with a striving passion there is a possibility.

Shakespeare the entrepreneur?

So let me just say....this isn't a blog about nothing. I mean it is, but it's more than just some lame images of fat men in fanny-paks (cause there's already one on the main page forever). To put it straight....
The "agenda," is to get in the business sides of things.
Personally I find this strange.
I'm a communications major. What does communications have to do with entrepreneurship? I mean I write, I like media, and being EXTREMELY opinionated. I don't sell or make things...but I do see myself as a leader.
And then I got to thinking, "well you have to lead if you want to be an entrepreneur, don't you?"
Entrepreneurship is all about taking charge and being creative, is it not?
You have to provide a service, a skill, an item that can benefit people...the world.
Take the horrific creation of the fanny-pak, someone thought it was a good idea. Possibly stylish even. And it was (in the eighties....where phrases like "relax" were posted on giant shirts and left there where it belonged), and while it may no longer be the "top of the trend list" it left an impact and isn't that what entrepreneurship is about? To leave a mark on society with your goods or service?
As a communications major that's what I'm passionate about.
Those writers, those artists, those musicians, those bits of media life that have left their mark on society years and years after their they've left this planet...was Plato ahead of the game? He took the sayings of his mentor and put them to paper to mass produce. Or Shakespeare, warping the concept of theater into a modern marvel in his time? Who would've put them in the line of entrepreneurship...
But the concept does fit, doesn't it?