Sunday, August 18, 2013

Waow What a Year


It's hard to believe it's been a year since I decided to enroll in Full Sail University. It has been a year full of obstacles, fears, joys, and days and nights without an end, all to achieve a goal. First of all, I have to thank God for letting me reach another goal in my life and give me the strength to finish my masters. Second I would like to thank my mother for always motivate me to finish my masters and to finish all that I propose, the truth is that I had not achieved anything if it was not for her.
Finishing my Master's has been one of the most difficult challenges I had ever faced in my life. For me, studying online was truly a nightmare because it was something new to what I was used to. It took almost the entire year to adjust to study online. The thing is that when you have several goals and dreams at once is difficult to highlight all without failing. That was one of my biggest obstacles while doing my master degree. Currently I work at the VA Hospital, besides that I am music producer and engineer with personal goals that I want to achieve and besides that I own my own company that I work to come out afloat. Each of these achievements has its own demands which I want to fulfill all, but the time factor can cause serious problems if a person is not organized. During the year I had many problems to do well in school, I even got a probation for failing to maintain the minimum average required in Full Sail University, yet I never quite, I just kept fighting to achieve my goal.
Nothing in life is easy, everything you do to reach a goal have a price to pay, and the question is “are you willing to pay that price?”  Never give up and even when you see that the road is hard to see put your focus on God and keep going, when you least expect it you will be on the other side of the goal.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Experts Views on the Value of Business Plan


There are many qualities that we can appreciate about Steve Blank and Carlos Slim, both have been successful with their philosophy of doing business. If anything I can relate about Steve Blank's theory is working a business model instead of working a business plan. According to Blank, a business model focuses on being true to the customers instead to the market. This type of theory is a way of thinking in which I always believed as a clerk and customer service. For me the main focus of My Own Music is always to offer the fans the music they want to hear because they are what will make my business to be prosperous. If My Own Music focuses on always take the place of their customers and fans, we will always be at the forefront of the industry.
About Carlos Slim I think he is one of the most influential men in the world today. His enforceable speak for themselves for three years in a row he is being name the richest man in the world. In an interview, Mr. Slim offers several tips from his business perspective. One of the tips that Mr. Slim offers that really struck me was when he said you have to know how to work hard and use the right tools. My Own Music is an independent record label that needs to know how to work hard to maximize the tools that they have on hand because My Own Music do not have the same budget that have major record labels.
For me, the section of my business plan that is the most important is the finance section. The finance section is a section that all investors will want to look for when deciding whether to invest in the plan. So for me it is very important to structure a business plan with a finance section simple to understand for my investors in order to get what we want from them.