Graham Evans

 Grahams Evans presentation was one of the more tactile presentation we had. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to stay for the whole presentation. But the stuff that he showed me while I was in class was very helpful. Evans works for a non-profit that targets the act of human trafficking, a problem that occurs not only in third world countries, but happens even on out our backyard (and backyard I mean, Seattle). From that he split us into groups and showed us the parts of his Business Model Canvas. And told us to each as a group fill out a part of the business model canvas. As it seemed that this Business model was a good model to use, not only for a business, but also for a nonprofit.

John Dimmer

John dimmer was one of my favorite guest lectures that we had come into Professor Fry’s class. Just Dimmer was of the first case where I got an actual entrepreneurship atmosphere from. Not saying that the others were not. But the stories that John told the class, kind of proved to me that he was the real deal. What first got me to this impression was the fact that he first owned a Honda dealership somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and then he decided to enter the airstream market, where he practically took ahold part of the west side of the cascades.

But all in all John Dimmer lectures was based on the funding aspects of running a startup business. He had opened my eyes on the multiple people that you can ask funding for. For example it first starts out with friends and family, then if you want a bigger investment, there are angel investor(s), and so on. Seeing the importance of funding for a business gave me a better understanding of how importance funding can be in running a small business, or any business of some sort. And I feel like he had a lot of experience on the funding, at first the thought of it scared me a bit, but after a while John confirmed to us that it was all part of the process.

Amy Sallin

Amy Sallin a representative of the Burkes Center of Entrepreneurship. Her lectures were a bit different than the previous lectures we had (and previous I mean one, which was Eric Handberg). Amy’s lectures concentrated more on an event that she was a part of for quite a while now which the Business Plan Competition. She talked to how a lot students like us were participating in an event/competition where they enter their business plans into a competition on hopes of getting their first funds started. She explained to us the steps on how to join and the benefits of joining such a completion. She explained to us the benefits of entering such a competition. Not only is a good way for students to get an experience on the toughness and joy of starting a new business, but it was also for us to actively create networks with some investor and hopefully later in the future, when we feel like we do have a competent business idea, that we can use these skills we learned and apply them.

Eric Hanburg

Eric Hamburg’s lecture was one of the first guest speakers we had in the class. From the looks of it, Eric is not only an entrepreneur, but he is also an author, a part of the metro parks committee, let’s just say Eric has seen a lot of things. One of the things he emphasized that not all business are successful there are a lot of business that do well and then crash immediately (something that professor fry has been pushing on us). But actually seeing something that has gone through the ups and down of trying to build wealth was interesting. There was a part of this lecture where he portrayed all of the jobs he been though and the income he was making partaking in that job. As the graph showed parts of his life he was making a ton of income, but other parts he was making enough. This was an eye-opener for me, showing me that the hope of building a business and making tons of profit is not an impossible thing to do, but it can be difficult at time, and kind of scared me from the idea of starting my business, but that’s a whole different story