3A: My Entrepreneurship Story

My dad has always told me, if you like your job you won't work a day in your life. I decided to take this advice early on into life and buy and sell basketball cards. I was 12 years old at the time, and I loved the business side of trading basketball cards with my friends. This was also when I started getting heavily invested into basketball. My favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers had just come off winning back to back championships. This passion combined with the satisfying feeling of making money at an early age got me hooked. By the time I was in middle school I was starting to sell the cards on eBay. I would buy all my cards in the beginning of the year of players that I thought would do well. By the end of the year I would sell all my inventory and 9/10 I would make a hefty amount of profit. I decided to get myself a gift to remind myself of my early entrepreneurship journey. I got a Magic Johnson signed baseball. This has great significance to me not only because it reminds me of my success from an early age but it also is one of the players I grew up idolizing at an early age on my favorite team. I still have this baseball today.



I signed up for ENT 3003 to further develop my love for entrepreneurship. It has always been a dream of mine to start a business from the ground up and watch it become successful. I find pleasure in creating success out of my own hard work. I hope to be able to gain valuable lessons from this class in order to fully realize my dream.

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  1. Brooke RossmanSeptember 12, 2019 at 10:10 PM

    This is such a wholesome and relatable post! My brother was absolutely obsessed with these back in the day, and I could venture to say that every boy was collecting them when they were young. I'm pretty sure I still have my Chipper Jones one that my brother let me have. I can easily relate to what you said about creating your own success, and seeing all of your effort come together into something tangible and impressive. It is such an amazing feeling. What a wonderful post!

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  2. Philip AciernoSeptember 15, 2019 at 7:17 PM

    I did a very similar thing with my dad as well except with random items of value from garage sales. It really did build a sort of entreprenuership way of thinking with a lot day to day items. You also make a really good point about "creating success out of your own hard work". A lot of people today plan on having a boss when they do not even think about being their own boss. Great post!

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