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This is an interactive space for the student participants to share their experiences in the Milford Business Mentoring Program. Feel free to read, comment, and learn.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Ian

Blog 2
2/10/11
At this week’s meeting we cover some very important information about how to develop your own business.  The majority of what we covered was just what skills and other things you should do to make your business better than other businesses.  We also covered information on personal finance.  And, information on how to establish good credit and the accounting steps were discussed.  And, the food there this week was even better than last week’s food.            

Blog 3
2/16/11
Tuesday’s meeting was the same as the other two meetings.  The guest speaker this time was a woman that had been a business owner six times and had started her first business when she was eighteen.  The information that she gave us about running a business was quite useful.  The conversation took some time to get started, but once it did everything went smoothly.  But, all and all it was a good meeting.  

Blog 4
2/24/11
Today at the meeting we were visited by a retired U.S. army ranger who became an entrepreneur.  Everyone was able to ask him questions about what it’s like to be an entrepreneur.  Some great discussions were brought up that resulted in a great deal of information, and I think just about everyone’s questions were answered.  So all and all this week’s meeting went over pretty well.  And we even got are mentors.   

Chantay

This week Mr. Mike Nally came to talk to the other students and I. Mr. Nally was very open about talking to us about watever we wanted to know. He didn't even lecture us like all the other speakers did. We just asked him questions and he answered them. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with lecturing I just liked his method a little more. Mr. Nally told us that when we first start our own businesses there's going to be some setbacks and some downfalls but we have to keep our heads up and move in from it. We shouldn't let our problems whether they are work related or home related show in the work place. I think that is true for any job , not just your own business. These next four weeks we each are going to be shadowing a local downtown Milford business owner. We get to watch what they have to go thru on a daily basis and how they handle customers and their employees . I'm very excited about the shadowing part. This program has given me lots of ideas and has gotten my brain turning all the time now, asking myself questions about my future business. Starting thus program was a very good idea.