Since I have no experience about making a business, it's nice to have a person who has a successful business, who rolled through ups and downs in business life came to the class and tell his story which helped me imagined more about that world. The first thing I heard from him is really surprise me which is if I have a business idea, start it, even though I don't know what it's gonna be, where it's gonna go. I'm a person who always think a lot before doing anything, if I don't know where I go, I'm not gonna start anything, you could say that's I'm hesitating a lot. And after that, Erik shared more about his life, how he maintains his money flow and keep the base for his main business by he and his wife doing different things beside the main side x side business which is teaching, writing book,...The money from it is lower than the main one, but it seems less peak up and down, so when things happened for the main business, he still has a back up plan, but it seems the purpose is just not for business, he did it because it's how things work in real life. Another experience he shared that I really like is he doing research and taking feed back, and hearing about the market think about his coming up product from email, so he can make sure that he can earn money from it and go ahead start the process. In the end, same with any business, I listened to their stories, but to fully understand their feeling about business, it's still a scary part and interested.
This week guest speaker, Matthew Tolentino who graduated from Tacoma and work as Assistant Professor within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He's founder of Intelligent Platform & Architecture (IPA) and developed technology which helped Tacoma Fire Department problem. The interesting is he had no idea with their problem at first, he just went straight and ask "what is your problem?" Somehow it's a good way to find out. Compare to Erik, I felt like Mathew has more engineering side in him more than business, but he knows the core of the entrepreneurship. He developed his product in term to solve tracking chemical spills and the “lost firefighter” problem. And when he talked about RFID systems and bread crumb trail so they can calculate the situation inside the building before the firefighters going into by transition every firefighter into a mobile sensing platform. By that, the department can get the information location, floor-plan, and vita...
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