One of the challenges is adapting myself to people's reaction about the business. Everyone has its own opinion and vision about what BlendZ is, and little by little I guess I need to accommodate to them.
I began thinking about this when I had a meeting with Zito from the Human Resources department in FDR. In an earlier reflection I mentioned how I'm just realizing all the work that creating your own business or company entails, even if it's small scale like BlendZ and it's hard to keep up. Part of that is figuring out how our business is going to work with school regulations and hiring people outside of our campus.
When Corey and I were in the meeting one of the things that caught my attention the most was a comment that came up which was that in a sense, we are a real business, but at the same time we weren't. This might sound extremely confusing but this shows me that some people think of us as JUST a school project and we look at it as a REAL business.
The point I'm trying to get to is that as much as we want to be a real business it's difficult to implement everything that it requires to be independent. However, I've been thinking about this meeting we had on Friday and I realize that still, because we are in school, the amount of work we have to do in order to get things going are mostly feasible because we have the school as a backup and a bunch of people that are willing to help us as well. I have a lot of people to talk to about hiring people and about how we plan on giving back to our community and I'm actually enjoying it because it's more of that "real-world" contact and experience that I'm always eager to be part of.