Sunday, 27 May 2018

My Entrepreneurship story

Cody's Entrepreneurship story

 I do not have a direct Entrepreneurship story, but I have had some severe influences that have led me to adopt an entrepreneurial, adaptive, and open mind when it comes to business, technology, and medicine. I have a friend that has competed in the the UF big event competition for a start up app, that helps simplify time management complexities for individuals of a variety of ages, and his critical thinking, and open-mind for technology and entrepreneurship has rubbed off on me and led me to think vividly and openly, while developing an acute sense for problem solving in those specified fields for an array of individuals. I helped facilitate the sales process for this project, and helped provide the CEO with constructive criticism on how to solve the problems he has in front. It also helped open my mind to how demanding and intricate a career in entrepreneurship is. Entrepreneurship is not necessarily a fact-based approach for what I learned in that process, but people oriented, and how you can solve real-world problems in a pragmatic manner and be aware of the demand of what you are working on, while going with any field, your listening skills need to be unprecedented and be able to understand criticism from a variety of people, while leveraging that criticism in your favor and working toward your end goal.

Thursday, 24 May 2018


Why the Dolphins are hopeful they have found a solution to a perpetual roster problem 
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/16C17014B46C1310?p=WORLDNEWS
This article is summing up a perpetual problem that the Miami Dolphins football team has had for the past 10 years, and cant seem to solve the problem using their consistent strategy, the article states they decided not to draft an offensive lineman, but instead draft another player that will help benefit the team. The problem I see here for the organization is a non-producing idea and implementation strategy from the team, and now they are choosing a more innovative route to improve the teams standing. 
#2 
Need help moving? This app is like 'Uber for trucks'
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/16C17014AB33E7F0?p=WORLDNEWS
This article shows how important and innovative the transportation and logistics industry is. An app called "Quickload" has emerged. It is solving problems for individuals that need a quick truck load and businesses that need large shipments in a quick manner. This app and idea is truly optimizing the efficiency of these cargo trucks and not letting their be wasted space, and more importantly wasted time. 
#3
Does killer of Redskins star Sean Taylor deserve a reduced sentence? A judge decided
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/16C1644D755755A0?p=WORLDNEWS
Article is saying if the killer of Sean Taylor, the NFL player should deserve a reduced sentence. The article states that the judge ruled that he does not deserve a reduced sentence from his initial 57 year sentence, stating most of his life will be in prison. The defense attorneys for the killer believe he should have it reduced because he killed Taylor when he was 17. The problem is if we should be more lenient toward pre-meditated murders, and also juvenille murders. I believe that at 17 you have a strong understanding of what is right and wrong, and it was also pre-meditated, so I believe he should remain in prison for that duration, he took a human life, a husband and father. The issue here is the murders and society at large. 
#4
Express bus to South Beach? Tri-Rail in Design District? New transit plans in the works
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/16C1B8AD5FE79658?p=WORLDNEWS
This article is about the expansion of a Flagami Trolley which is a unique transit area. This plan is roughly 3-6 Billion dollars in the public transit. Essentially this massive public transportation implementation plan will affect the whole Miami public at large, whether it is public transportation occupants or commuters via cars, it will be affecting the whole city as a whole, transportation-wise. 
#5
Cut out fruit juice to slash your chance of getting cancer, experts say. Also bacon.
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/16C1B8AD6D63BC58?p=WORLDNEWS
This article is about cancer reduction in day-day activities and foods. Specifically discussing health and fitness and foods that we consume. Examples are: fruit juices with sugar, alcohol abuse, processed meats and vegetable deprivation. This article is affecting everyone in America especially the younger, more informed generation on health. Millenials, generation Y and Z. 

Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Forming an Opportunity Belief

I do believe that an Opportunity belief is in play. In this country, specifically, everyone has opportunities to progress in life or digress. We have the ability to improve everyday. Some people have more resources than others, but an unprecedented work ethic, understanding of your passion, and what you are good at is key to optimizing your opportunity and turn it into something of success.I wanted to be a pro baseball player at 17-18 years old as a senior in high school and recent graduate, then my ideology changed, rapidly. I understood that i was talented, but it was a far-fetched goal that wasn't necessarily realistic. Yet, I was able to develop an internal locus of control, and believe that I can control my future with the things ahead of me, not everything, but most things. Now as a 22 year old going on 23 I have a more vivid understanding of the demand and supply of the markets that I want to go into. My passions, my talents, and my work ethic. My unmet need is a certain level of success/wealth that i am hungry, and ambitious to acquire. I have that need, the need came from my own internal locus of control. People are going to college to meet this need, networking with successful, intelligent, knowledgeable people. Listening, and finding the right job/industry to help satisfy this need. I am 110% percent sure this opportunity exists considering I have felt myself grow as an individual and professional the past few years, and my mind has opened up to learn from others.
My prototypical customer would be someone in the Healthcare industry that needs a different software program, I am the sales person and am selling it. I would need to gain an understanding of their primary needs as well as their secondary needs. And develop a consultative approach, or possibly a transactional, depending on the nature of the business and the relationship with the customer. My reflection for this opportunity would be to address my adaptive listening skills, and develop a win-win for me and the customer, not just shoving a product or service down their throat that they dont need, which is often a common practice for most companies. I believe my original opportunity will still be there if I apply those ethics to the customers in my desired industry, I believe my opportunity will still be accurate, but would need to see how the approach plays out and learn from there. I believe Entrepreneurs should always be listening to customer feedback. A lot of Entrepreneurs are in the tech industry, which is constantly evolving and is a good idea to learn from respected individuals or even new clients. Customer feedback is very important.

Cody's Entrepreneurship story

 I do not have a direct Entrepreneurship story, but I have had some severe influences that have led me to adopt an entrepreneurial, adaptive, and open mind when it comes to business, technology, and medicine. I have a friend that has competed in the the UF big event competition for a start up app, that helps simplify time management complexities for individuals of a variety of ages, and his critical thinking, and open-mind for technology and entrepreneurship has rubbed off on me and led me to think vividly and openly, while developing an acute sense for problem solving in those specified fields for an array of individuals. I helped facilitate the sales process for this project, and helped provide the CEO with constructive criticism on how to solve the problems he has in front. It also helped open my mind to how demanding and intricate a career in entrepreneurship is. Entrepreneurship is not necessarily a fact-based approach for what I learned in that process, but people oriented, and how you can solve real-world problems in a pragmatic manner and be aware of the demand of what you are working on, while going with any field, your listening skills need to be unprecedented and be able to understand criticism from a variety of people, while leveraging that criticism in your favor and working toward your end goal.

Cody's Buglist


Bug list
ENT3003
Cody Wright
Christopher Pryor
1.       When you are having a conversation with someone and they won’t let you finish speaking, and consistently jump in.
Answer: Don’t butt in, have adaptive listening skills, pay attention to what people say.
2.       When you are playing fortnite and your squad cant pull their weight
Answer: Work with your teammates, foster better teamwork, and communication skills, work at it.
3.       When you are driving, and someone cuts you off because they are impulsive
Answer: Drive like a normal human being, obey traffic laws, don’t be stupid.
4.       When you are working out and someone doesn’t re-rack their weights
Answer: Be courteous of others, don’t be selfish and not pick up after yourself, think rational.
5.       When people act a certain way on social media, but are completely different in person
Answer: Just be yourself, in person and on social media, no need to “flex” and act like a person that you are not online, yet a completely different individual in person.
6.       I am bugged when people are close-minded and are not open to new ideas.
Answer: Listen to people that are somewhat rational, you may not need to agree actively, but listen to what people on both sides say, and make a constructive, educational decision on what you believe in, based on the rationality of the subject.
7.       When a bar takes way too long to order a drink
Answer: Unless it is a slammed bar, there is no reason for a bartender to take an extraneously long time to deliver a drink to a patron, it just shouldn’t happen, make it timely.
8.       I am bugged when its an 0-2 count and I guess the wrong pitch the pitcher is throwing
Answer: Life may be a guessing game, and so is baseball, this subject just rattles me when I dont guess correctly, referring to life, its about what is thrown at you and how you adapt, same is for baseball, pitcher throws a pitch and you must adapt to what is thrown. Still bothers me.
9.       I am bugged by people that don’t like Publix subs (yes, I have met someone)
Answer: This is solely of taste, and opinionated, but still bothers me, because there Is a wide variety of options to choose from that are all great
10.   Long drives with someone playing bad music, disrupts my brain  
Answer: This is a tough one, because it is mentally deteriorating. You want to listen to something that is somewhat agreeable among friends, not just something to the equivalent of someone scratching their fingernails on a chalkboard.
11.   When you go to the gym at the wrong time and it is too packed
Answer: This is my own personal fault, need to just go to the gym at better times, although sometimes I must go when I can simply just make time for it.
12.   I am bugged when the stock market takes a dip, and I lose significant value in my investments,
Answer: This is just simply a financial burden, and not really a way to solve it, market does what it wants, but there are predictors to make better sound, outcomes on your investments.
13.   When you are walking outside, and mother nature decides to start pouring down rain like Southeast Asian Monsoon.
Answer: Not necessarily a straightforward answer to this, unless you bring an umbrella, or get lucky and it doesn’t start monsooning when you are outside.
14.    Being in Gainesville over the Summer bugs me because it takes away from living my actual life.
Answer: Only bothers me because I don’t see much fulfillment in life here, other than academic achievement.
15.   Not being able to see my dog bothers me
Answer: Make the drive home to see my dog.
16.   Having to deal with classes that are conceptual based that are only study by the book, take an exam. Not a hands on-oriented, creative class like this
Answer: research-based method classes are good to stem learning, but as a college student graduating, taking more application, hands-on, real world like classes are more beneficial at this point in my academic career.  
17.   Bad Mexican food bothers me, because it disorients my taste buds
Answer: MY own fault, should be going to better restaurants.
18.   People that argue politics blatantly and loudly in public, bother me.
Answer: Speak your mind in a pragmatic, and reasonable way, no need to get overly angry and may lead to impulsive decision making, things you say that you may not have said if you weren’t angry. Don’t let yourself get angry.
19.   People that complain all the time bug me. The reasoning is that people think that complaining about their problems will make them feel better, or magically make them go away, yet no one wants to hear someone complain about things going on, someone always has it worse.
Answer: Complaining can be a catharsis to many of us, I understand this first hand, because I am a college student and am surrounded by college students, must of the problems on my list can be solved by participating in active thinking, before you do something, and avoiding stupidity, which is extremely hard for a variety of people.
20.   The stresses of college bother me
Answer: This resorts to my 19th bug of complaining, I can best solve this problem by understanding what stresses me, and solving that problem, by thinking constructively and thinking things through.



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