ReINVENTing Iowa, College of Business & Innovation
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Today, we attended multiple panels that were very informative on different markets in Iowa. Although, I didn’t fully understand most of the industries being spoken about I took a deep interest in the similarities it took to run or jump start all the companies. I was amazed how many companies are globally located that are headquartered out of Iowa. I never realized the impact Iowa not only makes on the nation but the world itself. It baffled me that Sauer Danfoss is so large and successful yet I have not heard of them till today. I heard an interesting take on entrepreneurship and it got me thinking about where I really want to take my life in general. Mr. Vada Grantham had us list our hobbies and some other tidbits about ourselves and my hobbies were sports and traveling, he said you should be doing something you love and your hobbies are clearly something you love so why not try to incorporate that into your work life. I have always known sports are a huge interest of mine and that the industry interested me, yet I always only thought of it on a professional level. Today I realized there are numerous ways for me to travel, meet people, and be surround by sports I just cannot be narrow minded in my dreams.
We also wrapped up our business simulation where each company pitched there companies strengths and opportunities trying to gain investors. Although, my company did not win overall it helped me look at our companies’ overview and really dig into what our company was successful at doing. Even though we won the competition the day before we had some challenges to overcome. Entrepreneurship is something that has always kept me listening, so this simulation gave me a simple real life example on some challenges and thoughts I would face in running my company in a condensed way obviously… |
Aug 12, 2009 11:26 AM
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