For the last three months the term known as school, has become more of a business, and entrepreneurial space for students to create passion for learning, exemplifying a culture of excellence. The idea of lectures and essay writing have transformed into an active company that serves the community that surrounds us, with socially responsible fresh smoothies. At least for myself, and the IA cohort, that mentality of being a student has flipped around, becoming little entrepreneurs.
BlendZ has been an opportunity to envision the load of hard-work needed in order to earn the gold medal. As brilliant as any student might be, I bet that there's not even one of them who understands the "concept" and the challenge that maintaining a business up and running requires, unless they've experienced it. Since the start of the semester, we've been working within a system that we used to believe was the most efficient. We began as any other large company, dividing into five different departments to start |
Since we started with this new business working system, I've been proud of all the beautiful work that I've brought together, but there' one specific task that I believe I've nailed it. As I mentioned earlier in this blog post: "You don't have to be great to get started, but you gotta get started to be great". Before working in the branding aspect of the company, I honestly had no clear idea of what I was involving myself in, but there was no denial to the "job" opportunity, I was the one and only in charge of it. It's sad that I have no pictures of what the website looked like before, especially the flavors section, but what I can assure you, is that the work I did with the Squarespace website when I just started was good to show off our smoothie business, but it was certainly not good enough. That's when I proved myself that the idea of starting in order to become great was on the right track. As I began manipulating Squarespace and starting |