First of all, I would like to say thank you to Sara for spending time checking my work. I can’t even tell you how happy I am that I’ve passed this assessment.
To be honest, the second term was not easy for me but I tried my best. This term we did lots of engrossing and productive work. I explored a big amount of new things for me such as fashion journalism, piar strategies, etc. I did my second design collection and was experimenting a lot with procreate and Adobe photoshop.
I am really thankful for giving me feedback on the specific things I need to improve. According to the feedback on fashion design I need to develop my sketching skills and engage more with the tasks at hand. Also, give more attention on the details. I will practice more to improve it.
Having analysed my media feedback I need to develop more in-depth analysis of the PR work and attract more connection between my original research into the artist. And finally moving to my favorite part – business I need to improve the development of the concepts, critique about the SWOT model and explain more detailed about written work that outlines my research, investigation, analysis and final outcomes.
To conclude, analysing the whole feedback I understood my strength and weaknesses and I am already working. I am very excited for the term 3 and ready to work really hard.
From my perspective, it is very important to understand and know your personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This analysis will help me to find the most engrossing and profetable work for me. Moreover, it will help me to study better because I can clearly see what I need to improve such as timing, planning, drawing skills and digital skills and where I need to practice more. Therefore, that was a very interesting process to discover myself and make this type of work.
The second part of this SDS task was to make a job roles analysis. I felt extremely excited while I was making this work because now I have a goal to study even harder and reach my goals. According to my first preference is Fashion Management I can work as a designer (own brand), stylist, brand manager, creative director etc. And according to my second preference, I even can work in two spheres as a psychologist and like a personal fashion adviser, personal stylist etc. It was an amazing SDS task, I really enjoyed it!
This is the second SDS task that is about three fashion news articles. Nowadays, there are a lot of “fashion issues/problems” due to the pandemic and other factors. I’ve found a couple of reports that confirm that information.
And the final article is called “What’s wrong with the fashion industry?” and also contains 5 sections such as: Fast Fashion, Environmental impact, Working conditions, Toxic clothes and a Fiber eco-review. The article is available at: https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/en/whats-wrong-with-the-fashion-industry
I want to start my new blog with a business SDS task about the famous Ukrainian entrepreneur who has succeeded in global markets. Firstly, i wanted to tell who is an entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur is a starter. An entrepreneur is an initiator, a challenger and a driver. Someone that creates something new, either an initiative, a business or a company. He or she is the beginning (and sometimes the end) of a venture, project or activity. The entrepreneur might not be the ideator, but he or she is definitely the one that decides to make that idea a reality.
An entrepreneur is the driver. The entrepreneur is the person in charge, the leader and the person to look to for leadership. He or she is the one that pushes forward and inspires a team to follow. The entrepreneur is the one that sits in the driver’s seat, and has the ability to change direction, accelerate, slow down or even stop a venture.
An entrepreneur is accountable and responsible. The entrepreneur is the ultimate responsible for the destiny of its venture, which can be a company, a project, or any other endeavor. The entrepreneur is the one that has the highest stakes at the venture, thus the one that needs to be empowered to fully direct the endeavor.
An amazing example is a Ukrainian legendary entrepreneur Jan Koum.
Jan Koum is possibly the most financially successful Ukraine-born tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Koum, who Forbes believes owns 45% of WhatsApp and thus is suddenly worth $6.8 billion (net of taxes) — was born and raised in a small village outside of Kiev, Ukraine, the only child of a housewife and a construction manager who built hospitals and schools.
In 2009, he co-founded Whatsapp, which became the world’s biggest mobile messaging service. Before that, he worked at Yahoo! for almost 9 years. Koum had emigrated to the USA from Ukraine with his family in 1992 at age 16. Facebook bought Whatsapp in 2014 for $22 billion in cash and stock and he went to work for them. Although he no longer works at Facebook today, the Ukrainian-American is reportedly worth $9 billion.
Jan Koum signs the $19 billion Facebook deal paperwork on the door of his old welfare office in Mountain View, Calif.
Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up,” and a week later on his birthday, Feb. 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California. “He’s very thorough,” says Fishman. The app hadn’t even been written yet. Koum spent days creating the backend code to synch his app with any phone number in the world, poring over a Wikipedia entry that listed international dialing prefixes — he would spend many infuriating months updating it for the hundreds of regional nuances.
Brian Acton, Jan Koum and Sequouia Capital’s Jim Goetz pose for a photo after signing WhatsApp’s historic Facebook deal. (Photo courtesy of Jan Koum)
