The Journey Begins...

Hello blog world. It's a beautiful Monday morning and this is officially my first post.  I am on blog duty this week so you’ll be reading a lot from me. Before, I get started let me introduce myself. My name is Anim and I make up 1/7th of the "Genesis group B" team. The purpose of this blog is two-fold: To REFLECT on the incredible journey as we blossom into entrepreneurs and to share our unique insights into the LEARNING process along the way.

We have come a long way from those “nerve wracking” orientation networking sessions when our group was just beginning to form, to where we are today-post cake sale 1. For those of you who may not be familiar with cake sale, it’s an annual event here at UCT which takes place on the historic Jammie plaza. During this event, post graduate diploma in entrepreneurship (PDE) students set up "mini shops" on campus, where they sell a variety of foods to students. All profits from cake sale 1 will be used as start-up capital for the business we shall be running this year.

Cake Sale 1 was our first group activity and there was a ton of planning/project management that went into preparing for the event. We had to: look for corporate sponsors, open a business bank account, come up with a marketing strategy, go for training, organize store layout, buy inventory and make the products ourselves.  The week before cake sale, I felt like there were a million things that needed to be done and not enough hours in the day to do them all. We had a total of seven meetings to talk about our progress and discuss cake sale strategy.  The meetings (especially the informal ones held at a group member's house) were quite helpful as we learned the importance of splitting up big tasks into smaller ones to avoid getting overwhelmed.

Check out pictures from our pre-cake sale meeting sessions:                                

                          Planning

                          Cooking

                         Tasting

                         
                         350 brownies later....and still smiling :)