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30A – Final Reflection I honestly never considered myself as an entrepreneur. I didn’t think I had what it took to start a business from scratch. While to business I chose to pursue still wouldn’t be started from scratch, thanks to this class I think I have gain some skills that would allow me to be more open to the idea of becoming self-employed. I am by no means a reader, so when I saw we had to read THREE books over this course I was a little nervous about that. I read very slow. I made sure to research my books to make sure I would enjoy them otherwise; I just wouldn’t be able to stick with it. I did end of enjoying these three assignments. To future students, I would recommend that you stay on top of your assignments. None of them are hard. While some require extra work and effort, they can all be accomplished. Make sure you review what assignments are due the week before they are actually due, that way if you need to take time to read a book or complete a few interviews you...

29A – Venture Concept No. 2 Opportunity The service I am offering has a main opportunity of stopping unwanted telemarketing phone calls. The potential customers of this service will be anyone, at almost any age, who has a landline phone or cell phone. The need is stopping the unwanted telemarketing calls. Telemarketing phone calls are one the rise. According to an article released by the Boston Globe last May, telemarketing phone calls has risen from 3.5 million calls to 5.3 million calls in just one year. With this large increase in telemarketing phone calls I think there are millions of people who would also like their number(s) removed from the telemarketers call list. This market is large. This service is available to anyone in the United States. Currently customers can sign up to be added to a do not call list, but it is seemingly unmanaged. I use the word unmanaged because I’m currently signed up for this list, but I still receive phone calls. This is the only service t...