Learning How to Be an Entrepreneur One Blog at a Time: Final Summary

Weeks has gone by. Lectures has zoomed past. The information hopefully retains! Being able to learn and consistently blog in efforts to apply my newfound knowledge has been a beneficial experience for myself! I took my idea from the level of brainstorm was able to think step by step, from hardware to software to databases and security, of how my device to check and maintain the health of a computer could evolve.

I learned about what was the best method to create my idea and how I would be able to maintain good integrity not only with the new device but with the several accompanying pieces like online buying and customer service situations. In the blog, I realized that the health diagnostic device was better as a piece of hardware created than software. I also learned how Databases will be key in maintaining proper records of diagnoses and to keep the consumer informed about trends in their computer's health. It's important because if more help is needed with the computer having that history could be vital to its survival and longevity.

Sometimes blogging seems annoying and tedious, but maintaing the consistency not only reaffirmed that knowledge but it truly shows what separates good blogs from bad blogs. Blogging is work and keeping your audience up to date is essential because the exit window button is always so far away from the mouse's ability to click on. It is important to also use visuals and multimedia to keep the audience engaged. At the end of the day, the knowledge you have and product trying to be sold would be nothing without the consumer, your audience.

Arjan Writes: True Music Entrepreneurial Magic

This has nothing to do with my specific entrepreneurial idea for my blog but Arjan from Arjan Writes is one of the top bloggers in the music scene. Being a fan of his blog for years, it has enabled me to understand the function and potential that the blogging world offers. He is true entrepeneur establishing an image in the music industry. His blog is now huge and he has hired an extra writer or two and even has been a correspondent for the GRAMMYs.

Seeing how his blog transformed his passion for music into something big, I learned a few things from it. I learned that is so completely necessary to be consistent with your blog in design and posts. The only way to get recognition is through consistency in most of these matters because you are building up credibility in the mess of the Internet.

Arjan has become a entrepreneur for music promotion and marketing. He has his own iPhone application and like I mention has been able to establish a lot of bonds with people in the music business. Personally, I think he is involved in entrepreneurship because he built his image up from nothing and knew how to market himself and his blog creating revenue.

Here's his blog to check it out more in depth: http://www.arjanwrites.com/ .

Week 9 - IT Security

The topic of this week was taking the knowledge of all the components of technology and learning how to protect it. With certain methods like Cryptography and Steganography, I was able to learn methods to protect the integrity, accuracy and confidentiality of works created by myself and others. However, I learned that security not only depends on methods like this but on people as well and their honesty handling important and private information.

Obviously, it is important to use things like a CAPTCHA to ensure that my website to order these products remains safe and trustworthy! Yet, the tools involving biometrics will probably not be necessary and not be relevant to my entrepreneurial idea or any entities of it. Yet, security methods like identification and authentication will be incorporated in the online buying process and when inserting the created device into the computer.

When it comes to troubleshooting, I could see the company incorporating Cryptography. I know that the health of a computer can be very private and when the information about its health goes on the internet, it could leave the consumer vulnerable to attacks. No computer, as we learned, is ever safe! So if the diagnostic needs better interpretation or help from our customer service maybe cryptography could be used in the exchange of information between the two parties.