{"id":60,"date":"2012-11-02T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T22:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-11-19T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T07:50:50","slug":"1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/2012\/11\/02\/1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It\u2019s Never Too Early to Start a Lemonade Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/files\/2012\/11\/003_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95 \" title=\"003_3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/files\/2012\/11\/003_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young entrepreneurs at work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Having read Ben Mezrich\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/The-Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Facebook\/dp\/0385529376\"><em>The Accidental Billionaires<\/em><\/a> which profiles the rise of then 20-year-old Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s social networking innovation called\u2014you may have heard of it\u2014Facebook, I started to think about the relationship students have with their aspirations, specifically pertaining starting their own businesses while they are still in school. This led me to the question: Why is it so hard for many students to actually turn their big, bold, entrepreneurial thoughts into action?<\/p>\n<p>Upon entering university, I have never met as many bright, young students who have dared to dream as big. Become CEO of a major corporation, start my own my business, be my own boss\u2014these are the common goals I hear from my peers. And then I ask, \u201cWhen will we start?\u201d The response? \u201cWhen I\u2019m older, when I graduate, after I get work experience, after I start a family.\u201d Why? \u201cI have no time. Plus, I\u2019m too young.\u201d Cue in now 28-year-old Marc Zuckerberg of <a href=\"facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>, 21-year-old Brian Wong of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiip.me\/\">Kiip<\/a> or 25-year-old Glenn Clayton of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appletonlearning.com\/\">AppletonLearning<\/a>\u2014the list goes on. Each of them were students, barely a few years my senior, when they started their first ventures. What stops people like them from starting now when they had such big dreams? Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>As students of the Sauder School of Business at UBC, we\u2019ve been given so many resources and as clich\u00e9 as it sounds, we really do take it all for granted\u2014at least I have. As I slowly ease into my transition to university, I now realize that I have the real opportunity to chase my dreams. I may not know exactly what I\u2019ll be doing, but there\u2019s one thing I do know: I dare to not only dream big but to also pursue these dreams with fearlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Image via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jdwphoto.wordpress.com\/page\/2\/\">http:\/\/jdwphoto.wordpress.com\/page\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read Ben Mezrich\u2019s The Accidental Billionaires which profiles the rise of then 20-year-old Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s social networking innovation called\u2014you may have heard of it\u2014Facebook, I started to think about the relationship students have with their aspirations, specifically pertaining starting their own businesses while they are still in school. This led me to the question: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}