ENT3003 Entrepreneurship Blog

City: Miami, FL Paper: Miami Herald Title : Super Bowl Parties are expensive. Here are the ones you can afford. Link :  https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/things-to-do/article239686003.html Summary : With the Super Bowl coming to down, people will be tempted to throw extravagant parties, instead they should look into this shortlist of concerts and public pay-to-play parties. Problem : None of these parties provide the same feel or atmosphere as a home Superbowl party with friends that you host yourself. Who has the problem? People in Miami who want to host a party but don't want to break the bank doing so. Title:  State halts new admissions to Hialeah ALF after resident dies, another goes missing Link:  https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article239762753.html Summary: An assisted living facility has been banned from accepting new residents after multiple mistakes leading to the death of one resident and in the wake of another going missing. This d...

I think that student loans and the associated crises is a huge problem, not only for those with the debt but for everyone else who would suffer the trickle down  effects. I think there needs to be a realistic set of opportunities for people to receive higher education in a manner which is significantly lower in costs so that they do not have to take out loans. This is a need shared by anyone who wants to pursue  higher education or even professional certifications which can be very expensive.This need has developed over the past 2-3 decades as more and more people have rushed to get college degrees, driving up the price for the degree and decreasing its value.  There is really nothing substantial being done. Many people are making minimum payments or no payments at all. The proposed solutions are politically divisive pieces of legislation currently have no hope of being passed before the next election.  Drew: Recent Graduate Drew didn't realize he had...

My for most of my life since entering adolescence, I have had the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs. These were people were some of the hardest workers I have ever been around. Some of them started landscaping businesses, others were craftsmen. My senior year of high school, the summer before I came to UF, I had the opportunity to work with an entrepreneur. Who had a fairly sizable business. His entire career he had worked for himself as a real estate developer. When I met him, he was not only doing this, but he also owned and managed several senior living facilities. I was able to work for him at a time when his small company was building a new facility which would effectively double the number of seniors they could care for. It was a small office- just myself, the owner and three other employees in the office were responsible for all the managerial functions of the normal business and the new construction on top of that. Because of this, everyone involved had to wear multiple ha...

This is a test post for the blog I am constructing for ENC3003: Principles of Entrepreneurship.