Top learnings

Business and entrepreneurship

Concepts

  • Design Thinking:
  •           Prototyping
  •           Ideating
  •           Iteration
  • Treating your audience
  • Starting with the why
  • How to tell a company a story
  • How to write a proposal to a company
  • Marketing
  • Collaborating with peers
  • Identifying needs of your target audience
  • Myers Briggs test personality types - mixing up personalities for efficiency

Experiences

  • Proposed two furniture stores a project and they were keen on helping us foster creativity and innovation in classrooms by giving us materials and then we would be able to apply it on public school. Proposal
  • Design thinking process with High Tech High professor Randy Scherer
  • Myers Briggs test with David Fischman
  • Working in groups when writing for The Break
  • Visit to Innova Schools
  • Visit to Interbank Explora
  • Starting with the why video - The Golden Circle

Most recent learnings

  • Bonds are long- term investing options (these are safe, long slow growing)
  • Stocks can be AGGRESIVE or SAFE
  • Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) 
  1. Sell and buy small shares
  2. Lower than average mutual fund
  3. Best: spider (SPPR)
  • Aggressive investing: risk>10%
  • Long term investing > 1 year
  • Rule of 72
  • Compounding
  • FV = PV(1+1/n)^N
  • Diversification in portfolio is used to reduced risk.
  • Investing in currency exchange
  • Investing in mutual funds
  • Choosing a industry and a company to invest in

Recent vocabulary words

  1. Intrinsic: Innate, inborn.
  2. Extrinsic: Working with motivations from the outside world.
  3. Revere: To regard with respect .
  4. Ballistic: Going ballistic means going crazy or angry! 
  5. Anecdote: A short story of a particular incident or a historical moment.
  6. Empathy: Understanding another's situation, feelings, and motives.
  7. Emulate: Copy, imitate, mirror.
  8. Scrutinise: (verb) Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.
  9. Hence: From this time now, for this reason.
  10. Introspection: Contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings.
  11. Verbatim: Using exactly the same words; word for word.