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Small Business Startup
Pre-College Program - HMG
165 B
Production Management
 As
a child, I was introduced to the idea that "women should
always be well manicured", meaning hair, nails, feet,
eyebrows, and face. Little did I know, men were also
interested in being well kept. It wasn't until I became a
teenager that I realized that there were more men in the
nail salon than women!
Today we live in a
world where presentation is essential and both sexes should
have the opportunity to feel at their highest potential. As
a young woman, I feel that I should open the world of
comfort and relaxation to men. I am looking to open an all
men's spa.
The Small Business Start Up course will allow me
to understand the fundamentals of starting a business and
directing it towards men from the age 25 to 50. Questions
that I hope to find answers to may include what type of
environment can I create that is soothing for my chosen age
range, what types of services should I provide, and where is
the best location for my business. Of course these are
preliminary questions and at the completion of this course,
I will have asked more questions than I've asked in my
seventeen years of school.
- Lailah Taylor
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I wanted to take
this course because I have decided that I would like to open
a small business once I have finished college. My store will
consist of clothing, literature, film, art, and maybe a
cafe. My target customers are 16 to mid twenty year olds
that are more interested in an independent lifestyle rather
than the high fashion market and popular music and film.
I
would like to create an environment that allows my customers
to socialize and shop at the same time. The merchandise that
my store will carry will be mostly from local independent
clothing lines, musicians, artists, and writers. If things
work out well with one of my stores, hopefully I will be
able to make more stores in different locations. The
locations that I am interested in are New York City, Asbury
Park, San Francisco, Miami, and Houston.
I love Manhattan and will most likely be living here after
going to college. I'm interested in attending a school
either in Philadelphia or Boston because I know New York
City well enough and would want to have a different
environment when going to college. Regardless of where I
attend, I hope to be majoring in some sort of business, but
I won't know if this is entirely true until after this
course. - Dianna Scarpa
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 I'm
still not sure what I want to do with my life, but starting
my own business has definitely always been an option. I'm
still young and my world could be anything. I knew if I ever
went into any business I would need fundamentals.
This
course was appealing as a way to gain an understanding of
the foundation I would need, and if I meet the criteria to
control a business by myself. A lot goes into opening, even
a small, store and being successful can be very difficult. I
hope that Small Business Start-Up can teach me how to become
successful in appealing to people and developing the skills
I need to hit the ground running.
- Monique Ting
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From a very young
age I began to think about what I wanted my career to be. I
thought about becoming many different things, and all of
those things had one thing in common. They were all greater
then average. I never wanted to have a regular job making an
average salary. So I decided that I one day wanted to own my
own business.
I first heard about F.I.T's summer and Saturday live
program while searching around the internet for a fashion
related program for either after school or on the weekends. When I went on the website and read about the program I
decided to attend the Saturday Live program last Spring. There I took The Business of Fashion and Manuel
Patternmaking where I was taught a lot of important
information about the fashion industry that I didn't know. The things I learned will stay with my forever.
This
semester back at F.I.T I decided to take Small Business
Start Up because I want to finally achieve my goal of
starting my own business that I have had since I was about 5
years old. I want to one day own my own clothing company. From the skills I learn in this program I hope to set up a
very success business. - Tiffany Desilva
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I have always been
interested in fashion. As a freshman in high school a friend
told me to take classes at FIT to further my dreams in being
a fashion designer. I am now a junior in high school and
after about ten classes at FIT I have skills such as fashion
art, patternmaking, draping techniques, and various business
skills.
Having all these skills, during my sophomore year of
high school I started making my own clothes and having photo
shoots. I started getting requests from friends wanting
t-shirts and various garments. After a summer interning at
New York Couture, I was inspired by the way a small clothing
business was run, from being around my boss and the way she
took charge I thought that this is what I want to do.
I
decided to take the Small Business class at FIT, It was
introduced to me through a teacher at a Saturday Live class
and I thought it would be a great idea. I want to create a
boutique with one of my friends which has two parts to it, a
boutique where every piece is one of a kind and a section
for t-shirts and clothes which are more massively produced
in a wider size range. I hope to expand and become one of
the best designers in the world, design under my own label.
- Emma Chopov
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I was first told
about the Pre- College Program by a friend about two years
ago. She knew that I had the same interests as her for which
she had came to F.I.T. for Design and Merchandise.
My
freshman year I started off thinking I wanted to be a
fashion designer but after taking multiple courses, I
realized that what I wanted to focus on had changed. I am
going to be a junior in high school after the end of this
summer and my feelings for what I want to be involved in
when I am older has changed to the business side of the
industry.
I am testing out what I want to do specifically.
No matter what it is that I decide to take part in for my
future, I believe that one should have a background on
business to know what exactly goes on and how everything
works. After an assembly during the Spring class I enrolled
in, I listened to Professor Ari Vega's description of what
Small Business Start Up is like and the story of a young man
who is now very successful. When I heard that story, I was
inspired and decided to take advantage of an opportunity
like this and sign up for the class. - Chelsea Simunovich
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 This course interested me for many
reasons. I was told by someone I needed to have a business
sense if I wanted to work in the fashion and design
industry, which I hope to do someday. This class seemed like
a good introduction to developing a business and
understanding the business behind most industries today. I
am always coming up with business concepts and I would like
to create a business with one of my concepts.
Since I don't
know much about owning a business and what goes into making
it successful, I wanted to learn. One of the business
concepts I am currently working on is a party planning
business for children's' parties with my sister. We have
done a few parties in the past and I really think we
could turn this into a real profitable business. I think
this would be a good thing to do during high school and
maybe take it beyond into college or possibly even further.
Later in life, after college, I would like to work for
myself in my own business. I know many people who work for
themselves doing what they truly enjoy and they are happier
and more successful than many people I know working in a
company. I would like to be one of those happy and
successful business owners. I understand how much work is
involved in owning my own business, but I think I would
enjoy it once I got the business going. At this point, I'm
not quite sure what kind of business I would like to own. Some of my ideas were specialty clothing shops such as
stores for those "hard to find" or "in between" sizes. A
concept a friend of mine mentioned to me recently was
creating bottoms with shorter inseams for "vertically
challenged" women. She would like to pursue that concept and
would like me to help her with the business end of it. This
course looked like it would help me with all of my goals. -
Carina Miranda
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 I am a high school student who is
interested in taking this course because I am passionate
about owning my own fashion retail store in the future. I
believe that this course could provide a basis of knowledge
and education towards my dreams. I hope to learn
entrepreneurial and management skills in order to advance
and become a successful business owner.
It is important for
me to lay down and stable, trustworthy foundation for my
future at this point in my life, so that I am able to pursue
my dreams to the fullest later on. The entire F.I.T.
experience, this course, and my drive towards ultimate
success will most definitely will help me become the person
that I hope to be. - Jessica Offman
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 The
reason I wanted to take this course is because I want to
major in business but I'm not sure exactly in what. Business
has been easy for me to comprehend over my high school
years. I've been able to sell products like crazy to
costumers even if they had no need of what I was selling. I
could take money and double that amount in two days. Nothing
could stand in my way if I was determined.
I understood the
business world better than my mother because my father had
taught me the basics and then the secrets to make it big. But, I didn't know how to apply that concept to my life. My
friend brought up the F.I.T. summer pre-college courses to me
over Christmas break and I knew this was my chance. I've had
an idea of starting up my own magazine since the start
of high school but I didn't have enough training or
information to try to make my idea into a reality.
I had
learned that F.I.T. offered Advertising Design Basics and Small
Business Start-up, a great combination for a future magazine
producer. Small Business Start-up caught my eye because even
if my magazine would not be successful the class would still
provide me with information and knowledge of how to run
other businesses that would be of interest to me. Being able
to take a course in Small Business Start-up will definitely
help me start from a beginning and hopefully carry me to an
end with a happily ever after. - Kelly Muse
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