Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, an information technology entrepreneur and inventor, was interviewed in 1996 by Wired's website. In this interview he predicted the world's future and here is what he saw in his visions:

1- A world where the web will be found everywhere, in other words, mobile-first world.

2- E-commerce was going to skyrock "about two years away" he said.At that time Amazon was starting up but about 20 years later, In 2015 Amazon did 105 billion in net sales according to Business Insider. 

3- The internet would allow us to have a direct to customer distribution channel, making commerce faster and cheaper.

4- Companies have to adapt and evolve to the new world otherwise they will face the consequences. 

5- The web was going to get more complex in very simple forms. Tracking a delivery?

6- Jobs also predicted a way to sell vehicles. He thought that having too much car inventory was expensive and ineffective. Dealers should have one car in display and a catalog. 

7- Desktop market are from the last decade. New technology leads to more compact and fast processors.

8- Storage should be stored in the air. Jobs stored everything on his email.

Maria Rivero                                               Center for Hispanic Entrepreneurship

The Rookie Entrepreneur Program

The number of Hispanic owned businesses in the U.S. in 2012 was 3.32 million and was projected to be 4.07 by 2015, yet the fastest rising "minority" in the U.S. are Hispanics. Hispanics are more likely to start their own business and to fail at doing so or become stagnant, therefore the knowledge students learn in school should prepare them for the real world.
The Center for Hispanic Entrepreneurship and the Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce have teamed up to create the Rookie Entrepreneur Program, an intensive week long summer camp held by the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso. The REP provides a practicum of entrepreneurship in a multidisciplinary setting, where students are given the opportunity to learn how to start a business from the ground up, learn how profit works, and are encouraged to take the necessary steps to become entrepreneurs by experiencing various positions that are typically seen in a real business scenario. The past two years the REP was a two day program held in the summer of 2014 & 2015 which consisted with a first day of training and a second day of practicum around the COBA. Due to such success the REP has been redesigned to provide high school students a better understanding of business foundation knowledge and comprehensive business exercises via marketing, accounting, finance, fundraising, pitching, management, and research classes among others. The program will consist of Monday through Friday classes with top mentors from the college of business administration, networking with top local entrepreneurs, business etiquette dinner, golf class, breakfast and lunch, business and entrepreneurship courses and more.
The Center for Hispanic Entrepreneurship invites any high school student interested in business to join our fun energy-fulled summer camp on July 18 - 23, 2016. To register or further questions please contact Aaron Cervantes at arcervantes@utep.edu (915) 747-6157 or Denisse Olivas at dolivas@utep.edu (915) 747-7738.

Claudia Navarro | Center for Hispanic Entrepreneurship.