Dan's Business Blog Writ 340

All students should have mentors. But for the underprivileged, access to mentors is a necessity. In the United States, there is only a 7.5% chance that children born into the bottom income bracket will reach the top. Those that actually achieve that feat are even fewer. [1] Why is this the case? In my experience while starting and working with the volunteer organization Career Gear, I have observed one general cause: underprivileged individuals don't have access to the social capital necessary for upward mobility. Career Gear provides professional clothing and career development opportunities to those in need. However while running the program, our leadership team would notice the people whom we had provided help, dissapear. Or as we would say, "fall off the face of the Earth". Similarly, In The Blue Sweater,  Jaquiline   Novagratz began her journey by providing financial capital to the underprivileged through microfinancing. Yet throughout her experiences, Jaquiline se...

World We Dare To Imagine Post 1 When I think about making the world a better place, I think about how limited an influence I have in making a large change. I think that empowering more people to contribute innovative ideas to society will be more beneficial than any idea that I can contribute myself. To empower more people, I think that promoting upward mobility or creating a platform that value all people as equals is just as important and will be a step towards making the world a better place. This could be an organization that anybody could access. Whatever the organization is, it must represent a sustainable community to establish lasting networks for the underpriveleged. Through social media or referrals by teachers, students from a young age could gain access to networks of supportive mentors. I can see this as an organization who through social media and data collection develop communities where people are inspired to contribute more to society. Initially I can see thi...

  My Experience at Soliloquy I was initially surprised by the size of the LaunchLA venue, it is not very large at all. And the actual room for the exhibition is even smaller, about the size of our WRIT340 classroom. When I arrived around 6:30, the exhibition room was filled with people. It was incredibly difficult to get images next to the artwork itsself, plus I'm not really a person who takes alot of selfies. I was, however, able to take these... The object on the wall behind me, as well as the other piece, are crafted of cut paper. Soliloquy featured artwork produced by artist Leigh Salgado, a graduate of UCLA with decades of experience in the arts. The intention behind producing feminine objects of hand cut materials is to provide a personal interpretation and reflection on the object itsself. Leigh views the opportunity to experiment with different perspectives on feminine clothing as empowering. Around the room were objects prepared with different shapes, colors...

By: Dan Heinrich I'm sure that you all know about Lyft, or "Fryft".  And you probably know that the ridesharing technology company Lyft recently had its IPO. And if you've heard of Lyft, you've likely heard about Uber which plans to make its IPO debut this year after wrapping up a 3.1 billion deal in the Middle East. These two names have been dominating the IPO news recently, overshadowing other interesting companies also going public. The companies also interested in going public or that have already formally filed S-1 documents with the SEC include:                - Levi Strauss     (S-1 Filed)                - Pinterest           (S-1 Filed)                - iHeartRadio                - Slack                - Tr...