My mom works for this guy this. He owns two businesses the first one being Regal Electric and the second one being Safe Tech. When my mom first started working for him the business were thriving and very successful. I remember helping my mom one time and walking into the offices and seeing JD Power and Associates trophy for Best Business and Going Strong for 10years etc. Every time you saw the owner you can see the passion he put into his businesses. You could easily tell her cared more about Regal Electric than Safe Tech. He was very chill. He wore khakis and a tee shirt to work while his employees wore suits. He only wore suits when necessary. I liked that about him. There came a point where business for Regal Electric slowed down and the business struggled. Regardless he still put the same passion into all his work. Regal Electric suffered a bit and was going down under. In order to save it he sold Safe Tech which was at the top of its peak. I respect the owner for putting passion into his work but unfortunately the company ended up closing down and never recovered. I always looks back and wonder if he made the right business decision in selling Safe Tech in order to save Regal Electric. If I start a business I want to make sure I show that passion as well but I also want to make smart business decisions.
I'm taking ENT3003 because I want to become an Entrepreneur one day. I want to start a business of my own. I want to make sure I have the right mindset and and strategy to open a business. I want to make sure I know what being an entrepreneur means and see if I have what it takes.
Hey Erick,
ReplyDeleteWow! I enjoyed reading your post because it can show that everything doesn't always work out as an entrepreneur. In fact, I'm sure as an entrepreneur you fail often. However, the guy your mom worked for probably picked up where he left off and got right back on the horse after his company went under. I also want to own my own business one day and figured ENT would help me get the right mindset and tools to one day do that. You never know, maybe if your moms boss would have taken this class he would have run his business differently and avoided going under. Just a thought :-).
Hi Erick,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading about your Entrepreneurship Story. I believe that your post is a key example of how an entrepreneur should be able to affront many failures in life, but still working and never give up. I hope that the great leader you talk about in your post didn't give up after these series of events and I'm sure that he will learn from his mistakes and he will be successful in the future. I believe that we are all entrepreneurs. In fact, I believe that you are already an entrepreneur and the only thing you have to do is experiment what you think and the solutions that you can provide to your community or the world. But I also think that you have know how to think and act as an entrepreneur and that is why I am taking this class, as you said, to “have the right mindset and strategy”. Please let me show you my entrepreneurship story, which is one of the reasons why I believe we are all entrepreneurs and feel free to comment if you want.
Here’s the link: http://alejandroentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-helping-snack-my-entrepreneurship.html
Great Post!