3A Your Entrepreneurship Story

I have been exposed to entrepreneurship various times in my life, but the most significant time was during my sophomore year of high school. That year, a study conducted by the Legal Services Commission stated “86 percent of legal problems reported by low income Americans in the past year were handled with ‘inadequate or no legal help’”. Many of the people then must represent themselves in court when they have a legal issue. However, it was often difficult to find the resources they needed to be able to represent themselves effectively and efficiently. 

My father and I saw this problem locally and decided to try to find a way to solve it. We developed a software called My Law designed to provide the legal tools people need to present in court. The product includes access to all of the state statutes, rules of court, a search engine for case law, and a platform that users can upload documents and take notes in. After two years of product development and testing, we released My Law to the public for free in January of 2018. Since its release, we have had over 200 users and have been working with self-help centers in the local courts to provide easier access to anyone who needs it.  This experience has been really eye-opening and enriching. Not only being able to identify a problem in my community, but also being to help others has been a very valuable experience for me.

I enrolled in ENT 3003 because of my interest in entrepreneurship. I really enjoy the idea of finding problems and ways to solve them. I feel like I can learn a lot about that from this course. What I hope to get out of this course is more practice in identifying opportunities and creatively finding solutions for each “problem”.