Category Archives: Entrepreneurship II

This week in Direlights, our seniors defend their learning. It is indeed that time of the year when seniors get up in front of the class and present why they deserve to graduate at CCNTH. This is a yearly tradition that all seniors do toward the end of May and it is usually a stressful […]

This week in DireLights, we give critical feedback on each other’s business plans. We have been working in our passion breakout rooms to build and form our own business plans for the businesses we hope to create. I wrote last week that this doc has a lot of moving parts to it with a lot […]

This week in DireLights, we began working on our passion businesses! This is a time where we get to explore something we love and create a business idea based on this. Both EMI and EMII have the option to do this, while we also have a small group of people sticking with the DlireLights company […]

My time in DlireLights is quickly coming to a close as we wrap up our projects and get ready to graduate in a few months. Very scary to think about, but that graduation date is coming faster than we are all expecting and I’m personally not ready for it. Since these will be the last […]

This week in DireLights, we look to improve the company. At the end of the EM I DireLights project, the students are asked to identify an issue with the company and come up with an innovation to help solve this problem. They spend a few weeks coming up with their innovation and making a pitch […]

Since it is the end of the DireLights part of Entrepreneurship, it is time to transition and begin to work on our own business ideas. Of course, DireLights will still be running and we are all still part of the company, but we will be working less on the company and more on our individual […]

Mentors are a huge part of your life if you are interested in the business world. They are someone you look up to for answers to your questions and sources for inspiration. Usually, your mentor is someone you know and a person you can trust, but sometimes a mentor can be a figure that you […]

Now that we are in the second semester of Entrepreneurial Mindsets II, it is time for us to break away from the main business and begin working on our own business ideas. Of course, we will still be involved with DireLights, but ultimately we will be handing over the lead to the Entrepreneurial Mindset I […]

With our DireLights.com website fully up and running, we have seen some amazing support and customer growth. I mentioned this in a previous post, but we completely sold out of our fall and winter scents over the holiday period! This proves that our website is very effective and customers found it easy to use and […]

Love how in my last post I wrote about procrastinating less and getting a better handle on my work and here I am writing this at 8 pm the day this is due. Things happened and I was busy this week haha! Between figuring out how I am going to continue my business idea (more […]