Ambition - 21 April 2013

Day 7 – Sunday It’s Sunday morning and I’m on my way to campus. This is the life that I have become accustomed to, however I have actually starting to enjoy my time at campus, as dull as that sounds, sometimes ambition can drive one to push themselves beyond what they can imagine. This is something that you need to embrace within your very nature as a person. “They are going to love you for your ambition”……… that’s a profound statement. As it’s easier to dream a dream then it is to live it. This shows you how hard the road ahead is. As priceless...

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Thank god its friday - 19 April 2013

Day 5 – Friday Thank God it’s Friday, this is probably my favourite day of the week. Even though this is a false reality as I know I’ll probably spend most of my day busy with school. It’s still good to bask in the excitement of the day. There comes a point where we all need to accept that time is a rare commodity and needs to be treated with due care. As I had thought the day proved to be very eventful with a lot of things needing last minute running around, that was mostly personal stuff though. I do have a life outside the Genesis program...

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Where are the opportunities - 18 April 2013

Day 4 – Thursday In life we all sometimes take a moment where we look back at our lives and to where we want to be heading to, the opportunities that lie in front of us which we are blind to. They say luck is a result of hard work, so I would like to take this moment to make an absurd relation. As absurd as this may sound hope it will open your mind on what I’m trying to get across, that sometimes we overlook this simplest of opportunities in the chase of the golden pot. According to a google search the first envelopes were made of cloth,...

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The use of technology and all accompanying implications - 17 April 2013

Day 3 – Wednesday Today I woke up with a feeling of anxiousness. I work up with a troubled feeling unable to sleep I tried meditating. After reading on medication techniques and the number of people who have seen real benefit from the exercise in my Entrepreneurial Strategies readings. However this proved to a fruitless exercise, I could not keep my mind clear for longer than 2 minutes. After reading that 10minutesis a standard norm for beginners I decided to leave this exercise for another day. All that kept springing in my mind is what...

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Making use of every opportunities - 16 April 2013

Day 2 – Tuesday Today we had no meeting with Stuart………Yeahhhhhhh….that means no school today. My smiles were quickly swept away as I thought of the amount of work I need to catch up on.  As result of cake and the tests that took place during the course of last week, I fell behind on most my readings which means I wasn’t getting full value from the lectures I was attending as I was unfamiliar with the topic discussed. So I have to drag myself out of bed and head to school…. On that note I would just like to share my opinion about lecture...

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The morning after the night before - 15 April 2013

Day 1 – Monday Having spent the night on campus before a big test is an experience that I thought I’d never go through. Marketing Research has managed to make me do the unimaginable. The experience has taught me a lot in terms of time management and spending too much time in the 1st quadrant. Time management has proven to be a big issue during the course of this program. As much as I would look back to this event, as learning curve in terms of time management, other things I appreciated is the acknowledgement of the of amount of discipline...

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Lessons Learnt

So sadly this is my last blog till the next time you are graced with my presence. Thus far being an aspiring entrepreneur has taught me a few things... 1) School is in fact an important key to being a successful entrepreneur. Knowledge equals power and power equals success and without it you can only get so far. 2) The value of working as a team. Team work is never easy, however if you work together you will be able to achieve more, for at the...

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Graduating and Becoming Entrepreneurs

 So this week proved to be one of the hardest weeks as Aspiring Entrepreneurs. The drive to make as much money as possible and still get an education seemed harder than we thought it would be. However we managed to get through it, and our journey still continues... 'Hell week' so as we called it got me thinking. I know one may think its a silly thought, but I was just thinking, and feel free to comment on the subject. All this hard...

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The post death, or was it really????

So its me, Tarisai again... So you know how my last blog was about how the dreaded cake sale is now over and I was all smiles. Well guess what, the life of an Entrepreneur is never all smiles, and just as I thought I was past death, I realized death had only just hit me. So the day after cake sale 2 I had a big Marketing Test that I had stayed up the night before reading for and had been prepping for the week before. So I thought I had nipped this one in the bud. Yea lets just say that wasn't the case. The day started off well as days normally...

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The 2nd Cake Sale!!!!

Hi all, my name is Tarisai, and now its my turn to let you in behind the scenes. As an Entrepreneur start up capital is a very important thing. The 2nd Cake Sale was an opportunity for us to make more start up capital to start our business. If you had asked me at the beginning of this course if i thought i would be learning how to make pizza somewhere down the line my answer would have been "Hell No". lol Not only was the 2nd cake sale an opportunity for us as a group to make money, but it was also an opportunity for us to grow as individuals....

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The Role of the Ego, the Group, Achieving Results and most Importantly, Happiness!

This is my last post until next blog-duty-shift-week (we need a more fun name for this!). I’m actually slowly getting into this whole bloggin’ thAng! You know, one the biggest lessons I’ve learnt during this course is about the power of working as a team. When I first looked at the calendar of deadlines at the start of the program, I thought to myself, “Oooooh sh#t! How the funk am I going to do all this??” It’s amazing to watch when the group comes together and executes assignments left right and centre. And it’s humbling to get out of the...

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Enlargening the Brain - Course Readings that Blow the Mind

Today was sort of a quiet day at home for me catching up on readings and doing assignments. I must say that even though there is a lot to get through, I am thoroughly enjoying the readings for our course, Entrepreneurial Strategies. They are compilations of what our lecturer has deemed ‘the best literature on the subject’. The course pack includes chapters from Steve Jobs’ biography, Stephen Covey, Malcolm Gladwell and other such visionaries. Another great move today was in announcing the winners from the raffle we conducted on our first...

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Changing the Way we do Business - Hemp & Pizza!

Today I visited our hemp supplier to collect sample materials for our prototype. It was quite amazing to get a sense of how influential one company can be in shifting the mindset of the market. Although there is a long way to go in changing the overall market demand for non-environmentally friendly products and practices, much ground has been gained thanks to companies like Hemporium. On the other hand, plans for our second cake sale day are...

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Turning Ideas into Prototypes

Today we met on campus and had a super long meeting! Loads to plan for our first day back and time never seems to accommodate us by adding an extra hour to the day. Somehow they got an exclusivity deal there at Bar One Ltd. Besides writing our micro enterprise reports, as a group we need to plan our second cake sale day and develop our first product prototype –while we still are in two minds about the idea for the latter. We have a product idea that we have been advised to keep quiet about to avoid being copied. This is largely due to the...

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Monday 22nd March - One Week of 'Holiday'

Hello there, My name is Craig and this week I will be on blog-shift. We are currently on a ‘short vac’ from varsity. It’s quite different from most other varsity vacs I’ve had in the past in that there is definitely more mandatory bed-time reading. I guess the adventures of Winnie the Pooh will have to stay in the draw for now. We have been assigned a project for this vac called the Micro Enterprise project. It involves interviewing the owners...

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