My Entrepreneurship Story

Throughout the entirety of my young life, I have been exposed to entrepreneurship principles mainly through watching my father. From the the time I was born until about the age of 8 or 9, my father owned a large statuary in Pompano Beach called Artistic Statuary. I watched him manage his business from top to bottom, and saw him expand his business to numerous locations throughout South Florida. However, he sold this business and went to pursue real estate in what looked to be a promising market. Throughout the next six months, my father obtained both his real estate license and his general contracting license, and eventually was able to open up his own real estate company called Coral Reef Homebuilders. This company, like the one before it, showed promising signs of success. However, when the real estate market crashed, he was forced to look elsewhere for the time being. This then led him to then earn his insurance license where he worked for a number of months only to find out that he preferred to work for himself and not someone else. Taking advice from a successful friend, he started his own scrap-metal business that grew rapidly and was bought out by investors within his first year or so of operation. He then turned back to the housing market where he remodeling numerous homes around the South Florida region and is still selling and renting them out to families in need. On top of this, he has started his own towing company within the past year called Diamond Towing. He is able to serve Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties with this business and he has seen great success with this company so far.  Watching my father have an entrepreneur's mindset, and adapt so many work environments has inspired me to do much of the same. I enrolled in ENT 3003 to mainly get an idea of what the mind of an entrepreneur is like and to obtain this mindset. I know everyone's story to success is different, but I would like to take bits and pieces of the minds of many successful businessmen and women in order to perhaps own my own businesses and become an entrepreneur myself one day. I am hoping this class will challenge me to go outside of my comfort zone and think outside of the box. This class so far is unlike any other that I have taken, and I am hoping that this will lead to a different way of thinking for me.

-Bryce