Very short Interview No.1 Week # 3

The entrepreneur I had interviewed was Whitney Spence. What makes her an entrepreneur is that she owns her own dance studio for over 14 years. She was an olympic dancer and after her competing days she decided to dedicate her life to the sport and open up her own studio.

1. Was it hard to start and actually run your business? It was extremely difficult at the beginning because no one knows the business yet and you still have to pay the bills until you start building clientele. 

2. What should my expectation be in this course? You should be ready to learn all of the key essentials of the business side of being an entrepreneur. I would do anything to go back and take more classes like this to make myself more knowledgeable about becoming my own boss. 

3. What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? For me it means being my own boss, working hard for myself because I know what I want to accomplish. It is not as easy as a lot of people perceive it to be. It takes countless hours and stress to make a business make it. 

4. What do you think I should learn in an entrepreneurship course? I would say what you should learn is the difference between owning your own business and running it as well. People get that confused sometimes. You're not only the owner of your company but also the manager, the employee, and the CEO. IT gets hard at times. 

5. Do you wish you would have been taught more in school about entrepreneurship before going out on your own? Of course I do, it would have made things a lot easier on me. When I started I did not really know anything about running my own business and that is where it gets really tricky. If you already have a background in this field and can get educated on it, it could become fairly easy.    

I really liked interviewing Mrs. Spence because I like to hear others stories about how their business started out and how difficult it was. What really surprised me about this short interview was that she was entirely right! You are not just the owner of your company you are the employee and the manager. When running your own business it is all on you to make the best of decisions. After this interview I realized how important this class will be for me and my future endeavours.