Throughout my life I have not had much exposure to entrepreneurship. My mom is a school teacher and my dad is a lawyer, so neither of them had much experience in entrepreneurship either. My first memory of anything entrepreneurship related occurred when I was about 12 years old. I lived with my grandfather and mom when I was growing up so I spent a lot of time with my grandpa. His favorite thing to do at night was to watch the TV show Shark Tank. Shark Tank is a show that consists of 5 the most successful entrepreneurs, and someone presenting an idea to them and hoping one of the entrepreneurs will be interested in the show. My and my grandpa would talk all the time about something we could invent some day and maybe be on the show. After I started high school we would watch the show less, but some of the ideas we came up with will forever be in the back of my mind. The most memorable idea that we came up with was the "Sock Lock." Our idea was to create a magnet that would hold a pair of socks together when you throw them in the wash. The goal was to never lose one of the pairs of matching socks in the washer machine again.
The reason I decided to join this class was because it was one of the elective choices for my major, Sports Management. I always had an interest in entrepreneurship because of the times I used to watch Shark Tank with my grandpa. Even to this day he tells me that I should be taking entrepreneurship classes because of all the awesome ideas we used to come up with. I really am taking this class to see if entrepreneurship is something that I can envision myself doing for a career.
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