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fBlog#14

Hello folks! This the things that we've been doing this week. We couldn't just finish making of our MVP because of some reason. Reason that we are multi-tasking in other subject. Reason that we couldn't find a material to fit to our MVP.

For the next week task, we are preparing for the pitching. We are slowly progressing on our pitch deck and we hope this monday, our MVP will finish on the time. We are just concern about the mechanism that we will be using to switch the pen. We're working on it.

As for the presentation, my team discuss that we will make the video after we finish our MVP. We are just worrying because the time is limited and it is like a car moving fast towards you. Either the car crash you or you can overcome it.

We are hoping that the panel will like the MVP that we will be present it next week. We hope that they understand easily the concept that we are going to explain to them. If they are still not into it, we will defend the MVP for them to reconsider.

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fBlog #13

We’ve been given a new task to do this week. Our new instructor tell us to make a brochure about our product. She also said that we have to make a business plan and she gives us a guide lines. This task will be presenting next week.

As for our business plan, we are still working on it because it is too long to think and type. As for its content, we already discussed on what it should be composed of. But still, some areas on the business plan, we might not include it because we don’t know what to write.

As for our MVP, we still don’t have any substitute or alternative mechanism to put on the switchable pen. We don’t have any vacant this week due to some quizzes and projects to be made and passed next week (before finals). We are hoping that we can make it and done it on time before pitching.

Next week, we will be presenting our brochure and the update of our MVP to the class. We already have a plan on how to deliver it as it must be presented last week. We will finish our business plan next week.

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fBlog#12

What happen this week is that we've got a new instructor for our startup. Because our last intructor is have to leave for her recovery of her health. So, our new intructor asked every group of what are our startups. She also asked what are the updates of our startup.

We had not enough time to make the MVP of our product, because of the Final examination approaching. We need to study for the upcoming examination. Even we have to study we still plan to resume making our MVP. Its a hard time rigth?

We heard from other section that they asked to make a brochure for their startups. Maybe because maam jabile, our new instructor, wants to catch up of what we have done and what we are about to do. We have plan of what to put on the brochure.

We are hoping to settle the time of making our MVP. We have a lot of projects to make this upcoming three weeks. Its a hard time to settle the time to make every projects.

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fBlog#11

This week we've got a bad news about our instructor. We heard that maam Lagura have to leave two (2) months maybe she is sick or something. Even if our instructor is not around we have to used the time to work for our MVP. We need to find a small and thin pen, it is the material of our product, but we didn't find any.

We even went to hardwares just to find an alternative materials but we didn't. We meet up to discuss what we are going to do to overcome this problem. So, we might making a pen out from old ones and make it thinner just to fit on the body of our MVP. We are still working on it.

In terms of switchable mechanism, we find out that it will be changed because we can't find any thinner pen from stores. Because of this, it will also be difficult as we will be making a mechanism for the spring to work as the trigger of the switchable. Also, we are still working on it.

Over all, we can't finish our MVP on the time we set. We still need time to finish. It will be slow to progress of making our MVP because of the materials we can't find. But, we will try our best to hurry just to finish in time. We hope next week will be a more productive one.

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fBlog #10

What we do this week is that we do more validation of our product. We asked instructors that if they uses powerpoint presenter at the same time white board pen.Then we asked if what if there is a product that is a combination of presenter and a switchable pen. Then most of them immediately answered that it would be great.

We then introduced our lo-fi and most of them laughed because the lo-fi we presented was ridiculous. At first, they had a difficulty because it was their first time using it. But as they used it, they got the hang of it. After the class, they said that it was ridiculous at first (because it is lo-fi) but in the end, it is comfortable to use and convenient for them.

We went to store to buy the materials needed so that we can start making the MVP. But we had difficulty in finding the small pen that we should use. We can’t use the regular whiteboard pen because it is too thick to be used as a switchable.

We learned that not all instructors uses powerpoint in thier in lectures. So, there is some changes about our customer segments in our BMC. As of now, we are searching for alternative way to put the switchable pen. We are also preparing for the powerpoint that we will be using for Monday’s presentation.

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fBlog#9

We are shorthanded this week. There’s a lot of things we must do by this week. We are given a task to do this incoming Monday and that is more validation of our product. We have less of time to validate because there are subjects that we need to do the requirements as well.

So, to make a validation this time we need to make a lo-fi of our product. We need to show to the potential customer the concept of our product so that, they will not imagining of what we sell to them. We made a lo-fi composed of the white board pen attached to the power point presenter by a scotch tape. But, unfortunately, most of the potential customer that we asked are not conducting any lectures and discussion because they only gave quizzes to their students.

Some we interview, they gave criticism because of the lo-fi we presented to them but after we explained the process, the concept of our product they agreed to try it. Most of we interviewed they said some negative feedbacks about our product. Some says that they want not too big of the product because it is hard to handle. So as the potential customer said that we noted it and to make some improvement of our product.

For now, we are currently discussing about making the presentation for next week. We also made a script so that all the members can present and prepared for the presentation. We are finalizing our user persona this time. We will still continue our validation next week to finalize our product.

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Blog #9

This week have a lot of holiday in our school. For two days, we didn’t meet up of my team because of a national hero’s day and festival of our city. We’ve been communicating of my team by the technology to discuss about our startup. We’ve been discussing about the materials of making our product.

After the two days of holiday, the school have an event and that’s event is the Intramurals of the school. It is no class because of the event but we should be in school because it is a compulsory of the school to attend the said event. That’s the reason my team and I meet up in the school to continue what we discussing lately. Meeting and making a plan to make a MVP of our product.

Because of the event in the school, we can’t validate our product in the school to test it to the instructor. There’s no instructor available in the school to test of our product because of the said event. We discussing about where we can test or to validate our product. We planning to validate it to other school.

So, we’ve been discussing about what school we should go to validate our product. But because of the event, one of my team mates and I have a work to assist the players of our department that days. The plan we decide didn’t work. So we were hoping next week we will start validating our product because the time is running out. We will start test our product to the instructor of our school not in the other school.

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Blog#8

One of my group mates do the pitching of our product last Monday. Before he pitch we do a lot of preparation to make it successful. We make sure that the way he speech it should be convincing. It is like we have a big rock in our back that day.

Before the pitching time, my team meet up to finalize the presentation of our product. We introduced our product and we call it “pen presentation”. The problem we solved is that the teachers/instructors we see that they struggling when they present a PowerPoint, they come over to their laptop to next the page of PowerPoint and after that they come over to the white board to write some explanation.

After we introduced our product, we seem that the judges are not satisfied of the solution of our product. The judges leaves us a comment and said that we must to try to the potential customer to use our product because last time we validate it’s only a drawing. And after we give a trial of our product we must ask of their feedback.

So, we go some market and see the materials to make a sample of our product. We will make a sample of our product to test it to the potential customer if they like to use the way the product do. For now, we continue making a sample to test it to the customer. We hope that they are willing to buy this product and they may enjoy using it.  

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Blog#7

There’s some changes happen in our starup this week. Last time we said that we will pursue our first proposal that rejected. But now, one of my group mates came up another idea. We make another BMC for this another idea.

When one of my group mates came up another idea he shared this idea to our team. My team meet up to discuss about this new came up idea. We’ve been discussing why we propose another idea, why change? We don’t have much time to work this new idea, that’s what we’ve been discussing lately.

They said that this new idea is cheaper to buy than to our first proposal. Our first proposal cost of 2000-2500 and the new idea cost of 500 below. It is the price are good for the all buyer that they can afford. We started validation of our new product this week. Most of all we interview, they are willing to buy if it works. Of course it will works.!

So we decided that this new product is what we are going to make. Our product are used for teaching that will make comfortable for teaching. It is simple but useful tool for teaching. We hope that this our new product will be successful.

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Blog#6

This week we tell to our instructor that we will pursue the rejected proposal. We make our business model canvass (BMC) for the revised product we propose. We do some changes of our first proposal in our BMC. We make changes that will suit to the potential customer.

When we said that we will pursue the rejected proposal we should answer the questioned of our instructor about our startup. Our group meet up to see what we can do about the questioned of our instructor. We’ve been discussing about the question and it seems we can answer those questions about our product. So, we finalized our answers about those questions of our instructor.

Here our answer about those questions. First, we already asked some potential users and majority said that they are willing to try it if it will work. Second, This Portable Dispenser might be little expensive but compared to the Dispenser we are using nowadays, it is much cheaper.  The users will be travelers. The price will be Php 2000-2500. Third, it is handy and portable so it is not so heavy and it can be carry anytime.  Battery and water are the only factor that can make it heavy. Lastly, all of the members in the teams has the capability to make the project because the parts and steps of making the product is part of our course— Mechanical Engineering.

We would like to discuss this answer to sir Bronson but, in this week he is not around. So, we send a message of our answers to our instructor about those questions. We are currently validating our product to a potential customer. We hope that this product will be accepted and give us a second chance.

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Blog#5

We receive a result of our proposal this week. Our instructor said that most of our class’s proposals are rejected. It is sad to say that you have to propose another idea. We have to propose a new idea that will have specific potential users of our product.

Last Monday, we do a Business Model Canvass of our product. It is to help you to identify if it is your product have a potential to sell to the customer. We do a temporary data that we input to our Business Model Canvass (BMC). The product that we input data in our BMC is our second idea that we decided by my group mates.

At first we decide to use the data of our second proposal idea in the BMC. Sadly, when we report our BMC in the class, our instructor said that our second idea is not acceptable. We discussing about what we will do to the third idea that we will propose. We have zero idea what we are going to propose.

So, we decided that we go back to the first idea that we propose. We will pursue that product and find more validation to the customer. We will ask not random people, but first we need limited range of age people. We hope that we will convince the customer to like this product and also buy this product.

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Blog#4

We’ve been waiting for the approval of our product in this week. Sadly, the approval didn’t come and also the rest of our classmates about their product. The faculty are too busy to look of our product were they are to decide either our product will be accepted or rejected. Some of product in the other course are already receive an approval or rejected.

We have learn things about the startup that don’t scale. It is a method that you use to recruit customers will not be scalable. When we are the one to come to the customer door to door. It is thinking a big success of your idea and start your business in a small number of customer.

We’ve been discussing of our group mates about planning an interview of random people about our product. We will asking them if this our product will convince them to buy this product. While we are waiting for our approval of our product, we’ve been thinking of what we are going to propose of our plan B if our product will reject. We should asking first a couple of people about this second proposal idea if it is have a potential to the customer.

We deciding if our proposal will approve, we will start interviewing random people. We sure that we will receive a negative feedback of our product. Receiving a negative feedback, will help us to improve our product. We hope that we don’t have to propose again another idea, that our product will be approve.

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Blog#3

This week is the proposal week.  We propose our ideas to the instructor in three (3) minutes only, that’s a lot of pressure right? There are lots of ideas we heard from our classmates. Some of their proposal are awesome ideas and some are not effective to help the problem of a person/people.

We choose a member of our group to propose our idea in the front of our instructor and our classmates. To stand in the front and to propose your idea is that you should been practicing the words you want to say in the front. It is not easy to stand and explain your proposal in the front to convince the audience. So, we choose a member that can explain well of our product and can defence or answer the difficult question from the instructor.

We propose a tumbler that can heat or cool the water inside of the tumbler. It is good for us to use this product because it easy to cool the water wherever you are as long as you have this tumbler. You don’t have to bring with you the water dispenser or the refrigerator to cool the water when you are away from home. It also easy to heat the water when it is a rainy season, you don’t have to go to the water dispenser or open your stove to heat water and to make a cup of coffee. Isn’t amazing?

We done the proposal of our product. We’ve seen a different kind of ideas they propose in the proposal day. We just wait of response of our instructor if it is approve or reject. We hope that our product will be accepted so that this upcoming week we will start interviewing people about our product.

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Blog#2

In this week we have to finalize our ideas. We have to think an idea at least three (3) ideas to propose next week. Why three? Because, if ever our first idea will reject we will proceed to plan B. We have to be ready and have a backup plan for the proposal of ideas next week.

We’ve been struggling thinking ideas in the last few days. We asking each other, exchanging thoughts to what we are going to propose next week. There are few ideas pop up in my head and I shared this idea to my group mates. They say that my ideas is impossible to make and my ideas are not a solution to the problems of many people. We have to come up a better ideas, that ideas are easy to build and not will cost us a high price to what materials we will use.

One of my group mates come up an ideas. He said to us what if a tumbler, not just an ordinary tumbler but a tumbler that can cool the water inside of it or to heat the water inside of it. The other idea, what if a lunch box, most of the people have a lunch box. A lunch box that will heat the food inside of it, to keep the food fresh.

So far these two ideas are the only ideas we consider a better idea we’ve come up with. We decided what we are we going to propose. We decided that these two ideas: tumbler and lunch box, we will propose this to our instructor next week. We must be ready for the negative feedbacks in our ideas. Hopefully that our idea will be approve.

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Blog #1

This week is a lot of challenging we’ve been encounter. It is a week with a pile of work to do. It started when we have a program in the gym and it affect our schedule in Technoprenuership. We are behind of schedule, so we have to catch up the topic and we should do the two assignments at the same time in this week. In the first place we have no idea what is this subject all about, but after the instructor introduce this to us of what is this all about, we are amazed of what we will become in the future if we take this path after we graduate.

We form a group consist of 4 members in a group to make a startup. We should think an ideas that will solve the problem of people. Before we started think an ideas, the instructor instructed us to make a “rejection therapy” video. We come up a question that surely we will reject. This assignment will teach us a lesson that whatever we propose an idea we should not be disappointed rather we should think another better idea.

Thinking of an ideas for starups is the hardest thing we’ve been experience this week. We have short of ideas in our group. Even we come up an idea, it is impossible to make those idea. Sometimes we come up an idea but it is already made in our society. It is been hard for us to make an ideas that will best suit to solve the problems of people.

We can’t decide yet of what ideas we should present in the following week. We’ve been searching some problems in our world that need to be solve or need to make a life easier. It’s been a hard time for us in this whole week. For now, we continue to discuss about what ideas we will present. I’m sure by the end of Sunday evening we will make a decision to what idea we will present.