Conrad Hilton

Gus and Mary Hilton decided to have a child, on Christmas day in 1887.
Conrad's father owned the town's general store.
Mary was as quiet as her husband was loud. She was the backbone of the family. They were Catholic and believed in the power of prayer.
This shaped Conrad, installing a winning attitude in him.
He excelled in arithmetic, and learnt how to speak Spanish.
He worked for his father's general store.
Working at the general store, also gave him a taste of the hotel business.
He wasn't interested in the hotel business, he had bigger dreams.
He was one of 18 children by the time he was 22.
By now Gus was now a wealthy man.
Conrad and his father often clashed. Conrad struggled to make it work, but in his heart he knew his father would never treat him as an equal partner.
In 1911, Conrad entered politics.
He served a two year term in the lowers house legislature.
When his term expired, he threw in the towel saying politics were to slow and frustrating.
His family's love of music gave him a chance to set up concerts for his sister's band.
Conrad decided to open a bank, even though his father didn't think he could do it.
He was the president, cashier and sometimes the janitor.
Finally, he realized that bank was a lousy idea.
He got a telegram saying:: "Father dead. Come quick. Mother"
And he was too late for the funeral.
Hilton went to Texas in the spring of 1919, he wanted to per sue his life as a banker.
Soon opportunity arose, and there was a bank for sale.
He decided that if he couldn't be a banker, then why not a hotel owner?
He purchased his first hotel for $40,000 and he brought in $2,000 a week, but he wasn't impressed.
He busted up the lobby to add rooms, and he built a restaurant so more people would come, and he made a profit.
He then started buying more hotels in small Texas towns.
"Dig for Gold" or "Squeeze dollars from every space available"
Profits began to soar.
Hilton needed a slogan, and for weeks he was unable to come up with one.
"Minimax" Minimum price, for maximum service.
By 1925, his small town chain had 8 hotels and he was earning $100,000/year.
He attended mas every Sunday , and that's where he met his wife.
On October 19th, 1925 he was married.
He seemed well on his way to making his first million, but then disaster struck.
At age 40, in October of 1929, the depression hit. Hilton was deeply in debt and Conrad lost everything but one hotel.
He believed that since he could keep one hotel, then maybe he could survive.
Finally one supplier spoke up, and said here's my $5,000.
He finally got the $40,000 and paid the lease payment.
If he hadn't made that payment, he would have lost his empire.
He didn't go through bankruptcy, but he wouldn't.
His wife filed for a divorce in 1931.
By the end of the 30's, he was ready to buy new property.
He purposed to another woman, and she said yes.
They were married in 1941.
The talk on wall street was that Hilton was a sucker.
He bought the largest hotel in the world in Chicago, and renamed it the Conrad Hilton.
He got deivorced to his second wife in 1945.
August 27th, 1947, his mother died.
In 1948 his company was incorperated.
His son got married to Elizabeth Taylor, the two divorced after 7 months.

Home Depot

Founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank.
Bernie was a miracle child because once he was born, his mother was able to walk again.
Arthur's mom always believed you should strive for higher standards.
Bernie settled for a degree in Pharmacy, but he realized he loved being out on the floor rather than behind the counter.
In 1957, Arthur's father died of a heart attack at the age of 44, Arthur was 15.
Arthur's competitive strengths were reinforced by the loss of his father.
He was elected senior class president, and started his own business.
By 1974, Bernie and Marcus were working for the same company called Handy Dan, Home Improvement Centers.
Back in 1974, after getting to know Arthur, Bernie had an opening on his executive staff.
In 1978, Bernie and Marcus both got the 'axe'.
Bernie believed that his idea would make any other home improvement company obsolete.
The new company they were about to form would change the industry.
Low cost, high service, low volume.
They got a $2 million for 70% of the company.
Bernie and the others chose Atlanta, now if they could only settle on a name.
Bad Bernie's Home was the first name.
The Grand Opening as scheduled for Friday morning and they put a two page ad in the newspaper, but they didn't run it.
Their promotion was if you came to the store, they'd give you a dollar bill.
Things didn't pick up much over the next few months, people were confused.
There were no signs in the store, it was like a maze.
People started hearing about this 'amazing company'.
The early days were different, very alive, always moving.
It was very loud, and very fast paced.
Bernie was the money guy, Arthur was the cheerleader and inspiration.
In 1980, it was still anxiously hoping that the people of Atlanta would start coming.
By the end of year 2, there was almost $1 million profit.
The would send a small coffin to their rivals as a sign telling them that their days are numbered.
Home depot, in it's first 20 years, grew faster than any other industry.
The philosophy of doing well by doing good wasn't new to Home Depot.
In 1996, they had more than 500 stores to it's name.
It was named one of America's most admired retailers.

Arthur's strength:
Very competitive, service guy,
Bernie's strength:
Inspirational
Ken's strength:
Finance
Pat's strength:
Knew how to sell, marketing.

I learned that if you play well with others strengths and work as a team, you can do anything.

Home Depot

Started by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank.

Martha Stewert

Martha Stewart was born on August 3rd, 1941.
Martha's mother was an expert seamstress.
Martha was expected to learn all these skills herself, and do them right the first time.
She was always involved in things that helped develop the person she is today, always learning.
She loved to read and was a whiz kid at math and science, she was very exceptional at art.
Her father spoke fluent polish, and she would cook traditional polish food.
With six kids and a low paying job, she had to pay her own way for college.
In 1958 she learnt the girl across the street was making good money modelling clothes.
She was in a commercial.
She was responsible for creating the theme a details for prom.
She gained a partial college to one of the top woman college's in New York.
Everyday she commuted from her parent's house to attend classes in art and history, she would then slip off to do work in modelling.
When she returned home, she seemed to sleep less and less.
besides her studies, she believed her modelling career would help her achieve success.
Andy Stewart, a 23 year old law student from Yale University was Martha's first serious boyfriend.
Martha decided to drop out of school, worked full time as a model to help Andy through law school. Her friends were mystified.
Andy represented a world she had never been exposed to before.
In 1963, he took Martha to see Europe, stopping in France, Italy and Greece. They did all that on $5 a day.
Andy and Martha moved to the upper west side, and Martha went back to school to finish her degree.
Martha's modelling was put on hold when she had a baby daughter in the September of 1965.
She found it increasingly difficult to find a job because of her already having a child.
She set her sites on wall street.
From 1968-1971, Martha was commanding a six figure salary.
In 1972, they decided to move into a farm house in Connecticut.
Their house has been built in 1805, and it looked like nothing had been done to it since.
Martha and Andy were both holding full time jobs.
She was very capable of losing her temperature when things didn't do right.
She got a book deal and was an instant success.
Her father had a heart attack at 68, and passed away.
It wasn't enough to set the table with forks and knifes. Everything had to fit in a carefully orchestrated theme.
Her business consumed almost all of her energy.
Her public persona was making her an inviting target for criticism.
Critics came up with a host of unflattering comments.
She acted as a spokesperson for K-Mart.
In 1988 her marriage to Andy was falling apart.
Martha did her very best to keep her private life out of the public eye.
She wanted to launch her own magazine.
It was one of the most profitable starts in magaziene history.
In 1993, she created her own televsion show.
She was the subject of numeruous parady's.

What I learnt from Martha Stewart:
Trying different things in life can help you figure out who you really want to be, just try not to forget about the people who mean the most to you along the way.

The Apprentice

11 minute live charity auction to benefit a aids benefit
each team will be randomly given 5 big artists in the music business
the team that raises the most money wins,the bidding starts on the internet
Stephanie teams 5 are: barenaked laides, gene simmones, mew found glory, simple plan, and fat joe
The Magna's 5 are lil kim, lil jon, moby, eve, jadakiss
John is veru me, me, me. He always interupts girls when their trying to talk.
The first team changed one of their talk hosts to seem like a 'milf'. She talked comepletely different then she usually would.
The second team had Gene Simmons AND the lead singer from Bare Naked Ladies appear on their comercial.
Networth made $11,325.
Magna made $21,654.
John from Networth was fired

1.Negotiation - be smart, don't go for the lowest when you have the chance to go for the highest
2. Delegation - Don't give it to friends, it's the best person for the job.

Mike Kinds Last Day

7 Keys

1. Fear of failure
-failure is the key to success

2. Eyes Wide Open
-Don't rule out any industry
-Identify opportunities that exist

3. Copy Cat
-Examples: Google, iPod (improved mp3 player)
-there are things that you can do now, so why not improve it?

4. Circle of Influence

5. Rocky
-do not quit!

6. Never Stop Learning
-you're never to old to learn
-you're brain is a sponge

7. Try and have fun everyday


The one that applies to my life the most is Rocky. There have been many times when I have wanted to quit, yet I've pushed myself not to and the outcome was great. When you quit, you fail. Trying is failing. You need to suceed to get somewhere in life, and if you quit there is no hope.
I need to work on Never Stop Learning because I don't want to learn anymore...sorry.
Try and Have Fun Everyday is going to be one that is a little hard to do, since i'll be working all the time.

The Apprentice

Audrey first started off freaking out at the other people, saying how she has a brain, not just beauty and personality. Stephanie's group really figured out how to advertise their business, and there were no arguments. They had a jungle theme, and they had a lot more flyers and had coupons. Every time they sold something, they put a flyer in the bag. Audrey's group handed out flyers and and dressed up as clowns to attract children. Audrey's group made $304. Stephanie's group made $508. Audrey was blaming every one else but herself for the mistakes that her group did. In the end, Audrey got fired.

Reflecting on the Experience

A. The main problem we had was answering the question "Where will we keep the ice cream?" For the first day, we kept it at Taylor' house and had Stephanie drive over there and pick it up and drop it off. By day 2 we had found a safe place to put it.
We didn't have the greatest weather for selling ice cream, which was a bit of a disadvantage.
The guys took our table, unexpecitidly, on day 2. We weren't expecting that, so it frustrated us a bit. By day 3, we were aware the they were willing to pay for our table if they could have our spot.

B. I learnt how to make a profit. How to sell things for enough money to make a profit, but not too expensive, leading to a loss in money. I also learnt how to set up shop in a short amount of time.

How Did Google Start?

Google began with two college kids in 1996 who hated each other, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They were both really low on cash, so they decided that they would track down loading docks to see if they were able to borrow new inexpensive computers so they could start working on their network called BackRub. Soon, word started spreading about what Brin and Page were doing and was earning them a ton of publicity. By 1998, they had begun improving their technology. They built their own computer housing in Page's homeroom, and they were advised, by a friend from Yahoo, to grow the service, and start a search engine by themselves. They decided to find an investor, Andy Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems, who knew that they had a lot of potential. Not before long, Bechtolsheim signed them a cheque for $100,000. The only problem was the Google Inc. had no legal entity which made it impossible to deposit the cheque. They found founders within their family and friends, and they're total investment was close to $1 million. At the end of 1998, Google Inc. started up in California, and was answering 10,000 search inquiries/day.

Shoes for Tomorrow (TOMS Shoes)

Blake made 250 pairs, for each child in the village.
Before 4 o'clock, they had sold 2400 pairs of shoes online.
They hand place every shoe on the children's foot, because the connection that you have with that child is not only giving, but is full of hope and happiness.
In less than a year they went from 5 people in an apartment to 8,000 sqft of office space with proffesional workers.
There are different prices for every pair, but every time you buy one, he gives a pair to someone who needs them.
It's all about putting other people first.
Incorporate giving in whatever you do.
One for One.
Everyone who wears the shoes becomes a marketer of the shoes.
He met a group of children in Argentina who couldn't afford shoes, and within six months of launching TOMS shoes, he sold 1o,ooo pairs of shoes and gave away the same number.

Developing The Plan Part One

1. Why write a business plan?

Developing a good business plan can put you on track to success in a small business. A business plan summarizes an entrepreneur's proposed business venture. It provides an organized report of a company's goals and how management intends to acieve those goals. A business plan is a comntinuing work in progress that should evolve as your business evolves. Developing a business plan is like outlining a strategy for turning your business idea into reality.

2. What to include in a business plan?

A business plan includes a guide to the company's operations, a document presenting your company's strategic vision, and a tool to persuade lenders and investers to finance your business. A business plan also includes a standard by which you can measure and improve your business performance, and it is the basis for making sound business decisions. The elements of the business plan are a management team plan; company description; product and service plan; mission statements; market analusis; industry overview; competitive analysis; operational plan; organizational plan; financial plan; growth plan; contingency plan; executive summery; cover page, title page, and table of contetnts; and supporting documents.

3. What are the key attributes needed to be successful and an entrepreneur?

As an entrepreneur some key attributes are as follows. You need to be able to manage a team, be able to think up names for different plans, you need to be able to research different companies, and be able to do good comparisons. You need to make sure that you have a solid business plan, where you have taken time out to think over everything carefully.

Brainstorming

1. Freezie stand
2. Plant sale
3. Pet sale
4. Ice Cream stand
5. Drink stand
6. School Supply store
7. Book store
8. Music store
9. Food stand
10. School clothing stand


Plant Sale

1. You could sell the plants outside of the school, at other businesses.
2. A lot of people like plants, especially when they're cheaper.
3. It could help raise money for the school.
4. This idea seems the most promising out of them all.

Five Problems

1. It only can take part at the right time of year
2. It's mainly a business directed at parents, rather than teenagers.
3. We'd have to be able to find plants that are cheaper, sell them for cheap, yet still be able to make a profit.
4. The plants may die suddenly, and we could lose money.
5. We will have to find people who will volunteer to sell the plants.

1.Economic Turmoil
2.Green Power
3.The Senior Market
4.Discount Retail
5.Local Business
6.Education
7.Parental Outsourcing
8.Health and Wellness
9.Texas
10.Affordable Alcohol



Education
A lot of people are returning back to school, and total enrollment at university and college is over 12 million, and is continuously getting larger. This is due to the people who are unemployed and others who are wanting to upgrade their education for future job positions. There is a new degree in Digital Entrepreneurship in 2010, and there will be a high proportion of adult learners in the first group of students. There is also a tour that teaches students about entrepreneurship and is founded by past entrepreneurs, authors, and lecturers. It includes workshops, speed-networking sessions, panel discussions, and keynote speakers.

Google

Google hosts and develops a number of internet-based services and products, and recieves it's profit from advertising. It began in 1996 as a research project. They accept employees of all ages and they're always working, while trying out new projects. Everyday, the employees at Google are trying to make researching more efficient and easier for it's users. The employees love the atmosphere, and feel very welcomes whenever they go to work. Google always puts employees first, and they put users first when it comes to online services. Every week google gives you 20% of your time for something that you would like to do for yourself, that's 1/5th of your time.

What I Learned from Arnold.

He is a most unique human being who came from a humble origin. He's keeping himself repected, and the best is yet to come.

I learnt that if you want something, all you have to do is go out and get it. If you don't try, then you don't have any chance in succeeding. Once you get up enough confidence there is no harm in trying your best and going for the things that you want in life. Even though he just started as a regular person, then becoming a body builder, he is now the governer of California. Keep your mind to it, and you will succeed.

Blue Ocean Strategy

What is it?

The Blue Ocean Strategy is based on the idea of creating new markets where none previously existed. Blue Ocean thinking has not only created new industries- it has created exceptionally profitable new industries. Blue Oceans

Examples of B.O.S?

Cars, recorded music, aviation, petrochemicals, iPad, Starbucks, Southwest Airlines, The Body Shop.

6 Principles of B.O.S?

One: "Reconsruct Market Bounderies"
- re-evaluate the premises that form your industry's assumptions and shape your company's business model. Strategically examine your industry's key competitive drivers to create a "strategy canvas" that displays each factor graphically.

Two: "Focus on the Big Picture. Not the Numbers"
- keep your eye on the overall view and don't get lost in the statistics. Use a "strategy canvas", a graphic representation of your competitor's products, prices and industry positions.

Three: "Reach Beyond Existing Demand"
- focus on potential future customers.

Four: "Get the Strategic Sequence Right"
- execute your strategy sequentially to achieve your "value innovation." The technology must provide convenience, safety, and entertainment.

Five: "Overcome Key Organizational Hurdles"
-to implement change with minimal disruption, use "tipping point leadership." The key is using resources when they are most powerful.

Six: "Build Execution into Strategies"
- reduce your management risk by incorporating blue ocean implementation onto your company's ongoing processes.

Foldio

Christian Lane is looking to recieve £80,000 for 15% of his company. Foldio's curve your documents without a crease, keeping your artwork perfectly flat enabling you to transport documents with ease.
He was offered £80,000 for 35% from Theo Paphitis.
Peter Jones offered something else, which I didn't understand.
The first guy stayed with his offer. He accepts Theo's offer, and deinies Peter.
Foldio's are now being sold in over 500 stores in the UK and online.

Element Bars

12 bars to a thousand of bars per day, and they're seeling thousand of bars per week.
Jonathan Miller. The company started in August 2008, and has doubled their sales in the last 6 months. They have $50,000 in sales. He believe that the execution is more important. He has put $50,000 of his own money. He's willing to give up 15% of the busniess for 150K.
He was given 2 options. One he could give one guy 75% of the company and he'll get his 150K OR he could give the other guy 100% of the company and gget his 150K, and he'll have a 4% royalty for the rest of his life.
Went for a licensing agreement giving the one guy %30, with a %4 royalty for the rest of his life and 150K.

Ray Kroc

They developed in innovative delivery system, and makes sure everyone gets good value. He was born in Chicago in 1902 and as a child he seemed more ambitious than others. He started working in a grocery store, and viewed the world as one big place to sell too. He started selling Dixie brand paper cups. He signed a contract with Walgreens and became the star salesman of his company where he worked for 16 years. In 1939, he seeked interest in a five spindled milkshake machine called the multi mixer and was making over $25,000/year. In 1954 he met Dick and Mac (Richard and Maurice) Mcdonald. In 1958 - 1961 he opened up 200 McDonalds but wasn't happy with the brother's hesitation in opening more. In 1961, Ray bought the company from the brothers and payed them 2.7 million dollars. In time he drove the McDonald's real business into the ground Ray Croc suffered from a number of strokes and died from heart failure in 1998 at 81 years of age. The Golden Arches is more known than the cross.

Joan Kroc, Ray Kroc's wife, is the 208th wealthiest person in the world.

Eminent Editing

I would start a business in online editing because I love reading what other people write, and correcting it. I would have to start off by purchasing a web hosting through FatCow. It will cost me about $44/year for the web hosting. There are also a few privacy options I would pay for. Domain privacy, costing me 8.99/year, Protecting my site from and lost or damaged files will cost 12.95/year. Securing and protecting my website from viruses, fraud, etc. will cost 12.95/year. Adding my site to their directory will cost $1/month and raising my search engine rankings will cost $9.95/year. A final price of $100.84/year. I will also need to make sure that I have Internet which will cost about $40/month. I would then advertise my business on facebook, or on other websites which would cost me about $100/month. A plus to signing up with FatCow is they give me $50 worth of advertising on Facebook, and $50 towards advertising my site on Google advertising network.

Script

Hello, my name is Stephanie. I'm here representing Sardis Secondary and the Entrepreneurship 12 class. We are currently selling tickets to raise money for our Grad Legacy fund, which will then go towards scholarships, bursaries and helping out grads pay for the graduation ceremony and dinner/dance, and I was wondering if you would like to buy One ticket for $1? The tickets you buy will be put into a draw, where you could win a [car].

BC's Top 55

Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
- helps employees save for retirement with an RSP plan
- paid vacation allowance, and five paid days off during the Christmas season
- offers maternity leave top-up
- free membership to a fitness facility, and yoga classes

Next Level Games Inc.
- parental leave top-up for new and adoptive mothers
- three week vacation, five paid personal days, and five paid time off during the Christmas season
- profit-sharing and share purchase plans
- subsidized fitness club memberships, free ski passes to Cypress Mountain
- flexible work hours

HSBC Bank Canada
- up to $2,000 support of adoptive parents
- up to $9,000/year of tuition subsidies
- three weeks paid vacation during first year, increases to four weeks after third year
- up to $3,000 in referral bonuses

Simon Fraser University
- parental top-up for new mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents
- on site daycare
- free memberships to state-of-the-art fitness facility
- supplies a generous tuition subsidy.
- employee health benefits extending after retirement

University of British Columbia
- supports new mothers with top-up benefits
- on site daycare
- free use of the fitness center
- flexible hours
- four weeks of paid vacation time, paid days-off during Christmas season

Dave Thomas (1932-2002)

Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy's. He was adopted when he was 6 months old, and when he was 5 his adoptive mother passed away. by the time he was a 15, he already had a full-time job, had quit school, and was living on his own. At 18, he joined the army and went to cooking school, yet failed. He was married within a year of meeting his wife, and had 4 children in 6 years. It was hard for him to get by at first, because he was only making $125 a week. He was a veteran of the food business at the age of 20, and he was helped to make signs and buckets for KFC. The problem was that he wasn't having fun because he believed, since childhood, that work would solve all of his problems. The first Wendy's opened in the November of 1969. He earned his GED in 1993 at Coconut Creek High School. In 2002 he died from liver cancer, and had more than 6,000 Wendy's restaurants operating in North America.

Sir Ken Robinson - Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson talks about how Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. he says that no one has a clue what the world will look like in 5 years, yet we're suppose to be educated for it. We can't grasp unpredictability, so we have to make mistakes to be prepared. If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. In conclusion he says that intelligience is diverse,dynamic, distinct, and abstract. Don't be afraid to use it.

Defintion.

My definition for a healthy organaization:

"An organization that protects and empowers the people, yet sells and markets an exceptional product."

Mark Zuckerberg

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1567

Describe yourself in five words or less...

These are the few words that I believe describe me:

talkative - I love talking. There isn't much to explain about this one. I'm not very loud, but I constantly talk. Even in elementary school, my teachers would constantly get mad at me for talking too much. I even got sent to face my desk towards the wall so I would stop talking.

self-conscious - I wish I was more confident, but to my dismay I am not. I try to be happy about who I am, but sometimes it's too hard for me. It also depends on my mood, but the majority of the time, I am not happy with myself.

caring - I care about my family and friends. I love them all, and I like to think that I treat them all in a really good way. Sometimes I get in a bad mood, and I might say things that I don't mean, but most people do. It doesn't mean that I don't care about them.

friendly - I'm always trying to welcome new people, and make new friends. I'm a nice person, and I'm not afraid to talk to everyone even if other people don't think they're 'cool'.

hard-worker - I am a very hard worker when I want to be. When it comes to my job, I do the best that I can. In school, I'm not as hard of a worker, but if I exerted myself, I know that I could be.

/Sir/ Richard Branson

In Entrepreneurship 12, we watched the interview of Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin. Here are a list of things that I have learnt.

He has over 360 companies, which include Virgin Mobile, Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and Virgin Trains.


He learnt early on that if you can run one company you can run any company, as long as you can find the right people, and you're constantly drilling out the best in people. He loves to learn, and he sees life as one long learning process.

Branson believes that there is a thin line between success and failure.

The total revenue for Virgin is a bout $25 billion, and there are about 55 thousand employees.

He was dyslexic, had no understanding of school work. He would have failed IQ tests, and he left school when he was 15. If he's not interested in something he just doesn't grasp it. He doesn't know the difference of gross and net sales, even though he has multiple companies. He was the captain of the football, and cricket team. He believes that he was a bit of a rebel, and he was fortunately good at sports.

His mother felt that he should be able to 'stand on his own two feet' by the age of four. His headmaster told him that he was either going to be a millionaire or he was going to go to prison. He did both, and he believed that he went to prison. He was prosecuted for mentioning the word' venereal disease' in public, so he changed it to 'social disease' but then changed it back and got arrested. The police also arrested him for using the word 'bollocks' on The Sex Pistols album.

If you treat people well, people will come back for more. The best way to become a successful business leader is to treat people very well.

He believes that being a father is very important. So when his children went on holidays, he would go with them.

Issues he worries about that he would like to turn his resources towards: Global Warming, trying to find alternative fuels, and extracting carbon from the earth's atmosphere; 'The Wall Room', coordinates all the attacks and social problems that have happened in Africa, trying to look at the best practices.

How to Kill the Entrepreneurial Spirit

"How to Kill the Entrepreneurial Spirit" was an article written by Larry Farrell. It states the problems of producing and then selling a product. The people who make the product don't see the customers who buy it, the customers don't see the people who make it, and they don't know what the item is. The administrators don't see the customers OR the producers, so all they know is what they're told.

Second Post

An experience that I went through that made me more confident, would be when I got my first job. I was sixteen, and I was really nervous. I didn't know what to say when I walked in, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be who they would want to hire. They hired me on the spot, and I felt really proud of myself. Getting this job really boosted my confidence on a few different levels. It helped me to become less shy, and it made me feel like I could do anything if I set my mind to it. I have now been promoted twice in two years, and I have another job.

First post

Today I learnt the outlines for Entrepreneurship 12. This class is the last class of the day, and I don't really know what it's all about. We watched a few video clips and they showed that 'if you believe in yourself, you can do anything'. The teacher also told us a few quotes from people that he knows, and told us about past classes. He mentioned the debt that Canadians and Americans in, and about some of the future debts that Canada most likely will come into. We were told to wrote a blog about our progress in the class, and the teacher will be showing this to our parents.