1. Senior Project Lei Ding

2. Determine what to do? Art? Sports? Films? Photography? Chinese Culture? Business !!!

3. Original Goal of Project To open a Ross School store to benefit the Ross community

4. Goals of Project Find out the potential market at Ross Find a space for the store Find some low cost venders with good quality products Find a suitable computer program to keep track of inventory and incoming money Find Staff and Managers

5. Final Product of Project A business plan

6. Samples from Final Product

12. Samples of Final Product

13. “Ross” Designed Store Products

16. During the process… To speak to different people about a store on campus To change mentor due to time availability Waiting for email responses To look for space To arrange meetings To determine what will be sold online or in store To find online venders and make phone calls To research about sample business plans

17. Challenges Communicate with people to discuss project Cooperation of others with my own idea Lack of responses to emails sent To find a usable location To change final product To stay on track with my project and process folio Getting start up money To open the store

18. I learned… Don’t procrastinate! How to make a business plan Different accounting systems There is a lot more involved than I thought It’s not easy to start up a business English editing skills

19. Future Plans I will study business in college Future career involving business

20. Many Thanks Marty Cooper Jody Heneveld Liz Dobbs Dale Scott Robin Volinski Peter Polshek Riko Kawahara All my friends who supported and helped me in the last three months Ross School

21. Questions?

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