My Entrepreneurship Story 3A

        One funny entrepreneurship story that comes to mind was when I was in elementary school. Like many students, myself and my friends would always get caught up on the newest fads and toys. Our fads ranged from new clothes to key chains and everything in between. At one point in my school days,  sports trading cards were one of the big fads. I loved sports even as a kid and I knew a lot about them for my age. As they became popular I realized my friends were more concerned about the new cool looking cards and the new players that they had heard about rather than the cards that were actually worth money. I begged my mom to take me to a sports shop and bought a magazine that shows the current value and projected value of certain sports cards. I then began to trade cards with my friends based on the monetary value of them rather than what they were looking for. I traded many no-name cool looking cards for valuable cards like a Manny Ramirez rookie card, Chipper Jones hall of fame cards, and my favorite deal of all, a LeBron James rookie card. I still have many of these cards to this day up in the attic somewhere. Some of the lesser cards I didn’t like as much I decided to sell to my friends based on my newly acquired sports magazine. Soon enough I had friends paying me cash for different cards that I showed them could one day become worth lots of money based on projections of similar cards. I made a good amount of money for a 10-year-old and was very proud of my salesmanship and recognizing a good opportunity when I saw one. Here is a picture of some of my old cards that I found in the attic from when I was in elementary school.

             

         

I have wanted to be an entrepreneur for some time now. I have always believed that owning a business one day would be an amazing experience that could be very successful as well as help a lot of people. As much as I hope this will happen one day, I have not come up with an amazing idea that I felt I could pour a career into. This entrepreneurship class could be a large part of helping me discovers how to recognize opportunities and take advantage of them while thinking in a different way than most people. I want to learn how entrepreneurs think and how they recognize a good business idea when they see one. I am very excited to be learning things that are transferable to my future. I hope to gain a clearer picture of what my business could be one day and to possibly come up with some ideas I can begin to explore now.