During my freshman year in high school, I identified an unmet need that I was able to capitalize on. While scrolling through Craigslist looking for items that I could buy and then resell for a profit, I identified one market that I did not feel had been exploited. The opportunity identification was that of the overwhelming surplus of military gear owned by veterans. I noticed that most of these veterans were not willing to take the time to sell their gear piece by piece, but that they were willing to sell their collective gear in one lot for pennies on the dollar.
Throughout all of high school, I bought approximately a dozen different compilations of military gear from veterans, and I was able to resell the gear on eBay and at flea markets and yielded considerable profits. This was perhaps my first venture of entrepreneurship, identifying an unmet need, exercising opportunity identification.
I enrolled in ENT 3003 to help shape my knowledge of entrepreneurship as well as to help develop my entrepreneurial skills. This course is also a requirement for me to earn my BSBA.
