EXPOSED: Flint Hill student Tim Rupli...

Joins a small business class at school. He is a multi-sport athlete who plays lacrosse and golf at his high school. As noted by my "about me" section, I dabble in the outdoors, and do have a recurring tendency to wear Hawaiian shirts upwards of three times a week. Tim's favorite brands are Patagonia and Yeti. #sent

The Grind

This week was all about preparing for our presentation for Mr.Reed, Mr.Thomas, Mrs.Williams and many other teachers. We took the mini business plan we made the previous week and decided what were the most important points from it. We also discussed what would be the most valuable points from our lean canvas and what would be the best presentation format to use. We ended up choosing Prezi to display our presentation for the teachers and picked the most important parts from our business plans. All this planning was done on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday, we went through a dry run of out presentation and prepared ourselves for difficult questions and problems that could occur or be brought up in our meeting. We were not completely prepared for our presentation, because we only have five or six slides, so we will need to make sure that is done by the time we return from Spring Break. Our initial launch date had been immediately following the return of Spring Break, but now we have realized it will need to be pushed back a few days in order to meet and make decisions with regards to location and supplies.

Food? Food.

Over this past week we have met a few times, and have talked about choosing a launch date for our business. It is very important to us that we are ready to open and that everything is prepared when this happens. We have decided that we will be completely prepared to open the day before we leave for break, and plan to open a day or two after we return. We have also discussed all the individual topics of running a business that we need to be aware of before we can start and run our business. The drive we worked on discussed risk, management, supplies and other essential topics that need to be carefully considered before we move on. We also talked about possible errors and problems that could arise after our business opens. We discussed competition, who was supplying our customers before us and what will happen to them when we are open. We discussed interest, how our business sounds to an outsider who has never seen or heard about it before. This week was essential to our business because we started to work at our core foundation and understand the work we need to do in order to create a successful and strong business.