1) What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations?
-I was most surprised about how much this chapter reminded me of the accounting classes I had taken thus far at UF. I saw a fair amount of overlap in the subject matter and this was interesting to me seeing as this is an entrepreneurship class.
2) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.
-No part of the reading was surprising to me honestly as I had read most of the subject matter in my previous classwork here at UF.
3) If you were able to ask two questions to the author, what would you ask? Why?
-I would ask the author "Why did you include the quote 'just 2 percent of patents ever turn a profit'?" as this, in the context of an entrepreneurship book is counter-productive to get people to want to go out on a limb and be an entrepreneur. I would also ask the author "did you ever have a patent that did not turn a profit that would lead you to write such a statement?"
4) Was there anything you think the author was wrong about? Where do you disagree with what she or he said? How?
-I do not believe the author was wrong about any of the subject matter in the chapter but I do still disagree with the subject matter which I talked about in question 3 above. The language just seemed unnecessary and very negative in general which is not very wise of the author of a book meant to encourage people to make new patents, ideas, etc.
-Mitch
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