Week 2 Reading Reflection

After reading in my entrepreneurship text book this week there were definitely some interesting things to dissect and evaluate.

1) What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations? 

The biggest surprise I read about was the 10 biggest myths about entrepreneurship. What stood out tome was how many businesses success in the USA. I have always heard that half of new businesses fail within the first year and 85% within the first five years. The statistics in the book explained why this thought was wrong and supported there claim with data and evidence. I wonder why this old way of thinking is stil going around when it is clearly wrong.  Reading this was intriguing, and I also like knowing that most entrepreneurs do not take as much risk as most people think. I thought to myself hey if these entrepreneurs are calculating risk management and making the best of their investment.  I just thought to myself how television does a poor job explaining these facts to people. This is probably due to the fact that statistics and facts can be boring to the average individual.

2) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

One part of this text that I really did not understand was why the textbook took the time to explain which schools have the best entrepreneurship programs. Entrepreneurship is not about attending the best schools in the nation or receiving the best of the best in education. Entrepreneurship is about taking as little as possible and transforming it into something great. Most of the worlds best innovators and entrepreneurs came from nothing and made the best out of little.
3) If you were able to ask two questions to the author, what would you ask? Why?

First question.)  Why were the first few pages of this text so boring Mr Kuratko?I had a very tough time staying awake during the beginning of the text because the content was not presented in a fun way.

Second question .) Will the next few chapters be more closely related to the second half of this chapter?  I enjoyed reading the statistics and facts about out topics. It was interesting reading how you analyzed each topic.


4) Was there anything you think the author was wrong about? Where do you disagree with what she or he said? How?Nothing really jumped out at me that the author got wrong. Mr. Kuratko took both sides of the opinionated topics he discussed and I cant argue with anything he wrote about. Perhaps in future reading there will be something I disagree with.

Steve Clegg