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WEEK 18: THE LAST WAVE

“Expectation V.S Reality!”

Of course this is our first time to build a start-up and this is our 2nd product for our company as expected there will be more to correct in what we do. We are prepared for sure by that time but we never expect that sometime the least expected is the most to happen in the reality.

At our pitching we feel doomed by the time one of the judges mention one of our competitors which only me in our group that have small knowledge of it and i know it 2 days before we present. We responded very good in some question that we surely know but when they always going back to our competitor which launched for past months and since it is new so it is not that popular but one of the judge is friend of the owner and by that time we feel down and disappointed. 

As we go out to that door we have a little conversation as a group and tackle about what happened lately and we have the same thoughts that we never expect that there will be another competitor that will show up in the middle of nowhere. Lesson learned, we/you should update time-by-time for new competitors. “Mistakes are always there to test how strong you are, get up and fix the things you can and start over”. But we never regret what happened in our presentation. at least we defend what we can and we respond on what we know based on our journey.

This subject thought me lot of things, not just by marketing but all about business. “It doesn’t mean that you are an inventor then you don’t need to know how to market your product” . I commend our instructor for putting such a big responsibility on handling many group of start-up and not just by group but also updating one-by-one’s blog. Thank you for the wonderful journey.

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WEEK 17: WAITING IS REAL

That feeling that you group are prepared to pitch but suddenly problems and interruption comes to life. 

Since there is no time fir us to pitch at that time, the pitching of our team with the other teams is postponed because of short time that we have that day. Many groups are prepared and others are not, but our team are prepared that day.

Our pitch is more prepared than the last time we pitch even though the person in-charge is change but we have faith in him that he will achieve his communication skills.

Our team are so excited to present next week and we are hoping to hear different kinds of suggestion from our judges and we are preparing to answer some possible questions that they will ask us and hopefully that by next week we will able to pitch. 

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WEEK 16: IMPROVEMENT

In our 16th week of journey as a team, we ourselves are improving and so as our business. At the said week we have a consultation with our instructor and he suggest to improve more our Business Model Canvas especially in the left side which is the production side.

At that time, our instructor said that most or of Business Model Canvas is alright we just need to finalize and minimize some words, he also give us suggestions and check our product if it is already working. By that time we are prepared with our website since we have exact knowledge to make a website, but unfortunately we have not yet finished with our mobile app because we having much time in studying more about android and then apply it to our mobile app.

After the consultation, while the others are busy preparing on the pitch we the hackers update our mobile up and also furnished our website. We also update our valued customers by asking for updates for our proposal. So hopefully our pitching for next week will be more fruitful and okay because there will be visitors that will be there for our pitching. Thank you for reading, till next time.

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WEEK 15: New Adaptors

Hello everyone. I will be sharing with you our experience last week on wht happened to our journey.

Since we have another costing and we want more customers in our product, we give opportunity to other restaurants ere in local to advertise their restaurant through our mobile app. We make 10 copies but unfortunately we only disseminate 5 letters because other restaurants have their advertising/webpage and others did not intertain us.

Those 5 restaurants are cecils, tapa king, ribs & bibs, boy zugba, and roys bistro.

Our team is still in a process of coding for both sides customer and user. Hopefully this week we are finished with our Customer side of our product so thatwe can focus to our users side of product. Thats all and thank you for reading my blog.

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WEEK 14: Busy Week

Hi gusy its been a week again and im here. I select that title because last week we are so very busy with our thesis defense and we forgot about our start-ups. But anyway our instructor is always there to remind us.

Last week he discussed strategy and tactics. Strategy is is a plan made before the the certain event or competition and tactics is how do you apply those plans in the present event or competition. That is how i understand them based on the last discussion and for now i am already building a strategy on how to gain more early adaptors and customers.

Since last our early adaptors asked for new costing for our product and we found amother way to serve them much better with lesser expenses so i or we already make one and it is ready to be passed to our early adaptors and sonce we are not convinced with the numbers of our early adaptors we are planning this week to seek for another early adaptors. Hopefully this week will end up as productive just like last week. So this is it, i guess thats all i haveto share for this week. Thank you for reading. Byeers.

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WEEK 13: Pitching with the Guest

"PITCHING WITH THE GUEST" it sounds scary but we somehow took care of it. By the way, we had pitching and this time we have guest. They are slso teachers but basically they know also business.

Since im one of the pitchers and im so nervous before the pitching because tho it happens that we are the 1st presenter but we are prepared. After the pitching and presentation of products the guests gave their comments and suggestions. Most of them have the same comment that we should get data from SEC or to city hall to ask the lost of registered restaurants here in local. They also suggest that we should add features like food availability, table availability, and reservations and weare looking forward on adding those features.

So we go to our valued customers and talk to the managers and sadly they say that our product is too expensive, luckily we expect they will said that and eventually i am preparing to pass another costing proposal because we found another way to serve them better with the least expenses. And also we are planing to add more customers so we are scheduled for this to roam the city to find another customer. Hopefully that will end up as what we scheduled.

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WEEK 12: CODING

hello readers. this week we go to the restaurants and talk to their managers but unfortunately the manager are busy because they are working with their month end reports and told us to go back another time, but that our week does not end there. 

we continue our week through coding, since i’m one of the programmer on our team so i started coding at the user side. its kinda hard for me because this is my first time to make a android app using android studio IDE so i watched many tutorials and build some simple projects so that i could learn something and apply it to our user’s smart phones application. 

on the other side, i discovered something about web hosting and building our own server. we discussed that we should take the web hosting because it has the least cost than building our own server. so the next time we will have a meeting we will talk about making new costing so that many restaurants can afford our product. 

so that’s it for this week. hopefully you will still continue reading my blog. see you to my next blog. 

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WEEK 11: UPDATES

actually this was to be posted last week bu i ran into some problems but any way i’m already back.

last week during the 11th week of our journey in technoprenuership and in our product. last week we had our consultation about our product and early adapters and it happened that we are prepared by that and also i think we are ahead of the other team because some them have not proceed yet to costing proposal. during our consultation we explain to our adviser our costing, wireframe, and work flow. after checking we had a good news from him, he said that we can now proceed to our CODING and for us its a big big big yes. we are happy that we are now in the next level of of our journey.

but until then, our early adapters have not yet respond to our letter, we are agreed to update them about our costing and we are looking forward to meet their accounting manager so that we could talk about the price because we expect the worst that could happen that they will not agree in terms of our price. But we are prepared for that situation. 

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WEEK 10: Pitching

We dont have any idea about this. But our business wont because we dont know how to pitch, so we searched and learne. I learne something about the rule 10/20/30, 10sllides-20 minutes- 30 pointers. But our pitch required only 7 minutes maximum. Aincw we learn different kinds of pitching, we apply it and luckily at the actual we deliver it right but some of the data is wrong as expected. After the pitch we are required to play the wireframe of our product in both user and customers side but we did not plah it because we have same technical problem and since we are out of time so our adviser told us to present our wireframe at his office later afternoon. We present and explain what is in our application through wireframe. In the user (diner) side, it is an application that can search anything the users want inside the local and in the customers side, it is a website with the features set promo, add, delete, and update menu. After the presentation our adviser give us a big GO signal. Meaning, we cam start our coding. Finally we arrive at the next level of our journey. Hopefully this luck will go all the way.

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WEEK 9: COSTING

last week we are just picking customers but now customers picked us. 

In this week, we follow-up our business proposals to our valued customer but only 1 customer faced us because others are busy with their meeting. So that customer asked for costing so that they will help us to convince their financial manager to approve our proposal. Since we don’t have enough idea about costing so i asked my friend who graduated in Business Management at Xavier University, she help us what to do about our costing, she said that every price of the product consist of: direct material, direct labor, and factory overhead and sum it up to have our product cost. In my understanding based on what she said, our direct material will be the payment for our server, also our direct labor will be the programmers salary, and lastly our factory overhead will be our acquisition cost.

Based on the data we gathered this week about our costumers persona we will have another meeting this week for our final costing and to be evaluated by our instructor since he is guiding us to the better future for our future company.

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WEEK 8: Proposals

it all happens fast, first we are just picking problems but now we are making business proposals for our future costumers. Our business proposal consist of our products overview, wireframe for both mobile users and costumers admin, intent letter for meeting them as soon as possible and advantages of our product. the process of the mobiles users application will be: they can search what they want after that there will be plenty of restaurants that will pop out based on what is being searched, after the user chooses what restaurant they want to go the output will be the restaurants information, location, and other menu’s that they serve. At our costumers side process, first they will have to login because every restaurant/costumer have different admin profile and information, 2nd they can edit/update their menu and promo, 3rd they can add menu, and 4th they can set promo for their restaurant.

After making business proposal for our costumers (ale, countryside steak house, redtail shrimp, seafood island, gerry’s grill, and sunburst) we disseminate our business proposals. Some of the manager commend us for a unique idea/product, they gave their word that they will help us to convince their accounting manager because they know that our product will give a big help to them.

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WEEK 7: Introducing our Product.

Last week, we interviewed different kinds of costumer. We gathered data all about we need at the restaurants standard work flow. At the same time we ask about their work flow we introduced our product to their manager and most of the managers that we talk are interested and some of them agreed but they are not interested because they already have websites. With the data we gathered we are planning to make a business proposal because the managers also ask for it. Also about the restaurants standard work flow, we are going to minimize as expected because it might help us to market our product. This next week I am proposing a plan with in group to split into 2 group since we are 4 in a group I will set a task for 2 person who will conduct a survey for our user persona and the other 2 for costumer persona. May God bless this coming week for our successful plans.

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WEEK 6

lately we had our survey in different restaurants here in the city and unfortunately other restaurants rejected us because they are busy assisting their costumers and some of them their manager was not around so they told us to comeback later.

When we finally finished our survey we discovered that we are asking the wrong person. Instead of asking the manager it should be the accounting manager or the owner of the restaurant. In additional, some of them ask for brochure of our product instead of showing them our wire frame. They tell us also to comeback so that we could talk to the owner or accounting manager.

So in this coming week, at least we have an idea for what we are going to do and who are the exact person we should talk to. Also we learn to have our pitch work at least for just 3 minutes and we will practice to have another pitch for 5 minutes. 

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WEEK 5

With my last blog we already decided to change our idea so it happens that we are not the only group who change the idea, unluckily we are not the only group who think for that idea is the Sumada App with the features of cashiering system, sales management, and inventory system. Even with that circumstances we did not give up, we continue to seek problems in the society and how we can solve the problem. Until we came up with the idea of search engine of food and restaurant.

about our idea we can solve the problem of most of the people because they can easily find what food they want in a certain restaurant based on price, nearest place, top restaurants, whether the searched food is best seller of that restaurant, availability, and how many likes the food gets. with this idea common problem like this can be solve easily specially when we are in a hurry or hungry and craving for a certain food and we don’t know what restaurant to choose.

we conduct a survey lately for our idea and yes sometimes we got rejected by people but we need a data from them. based on our survey we got the average of 6 yes out of 8 persons. some of them give advice and suggestions but most of them agreed on our idea. 

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WEEK 4

we had a hard week specially lately because we complete our survey and it did not go as we expected to be, but as our teacher said expectation doesn’t always meet reality. In our survey 5 out of 17 people have have meet our expectations but then it is also below average so we are planning to drop the idea and  proceed to our 2nd choice or idea the Sumada (Computation) app which have the features of cashiering system, inventory system, and sales management. But before we proceed to that idea we should ask for our teachers advice and after that we will make our new BMC to help us to build the idea of Sumada (Computation) app.

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Week 3

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Week 3 (Project decision making)

Lately we gathered information about what will be our project or product for this subject. All of us share ideas about what we can build and problems to solve and discuss it to the group. I came up with the idea of Sumada(computation) App because i saw a problem at the Cogon Market that their cashiering system and inventory system is manual which makes it slow. But in the end, we came up with the idea of Sugo(Command) App so we conduct survey on how many people can use our app, what kind of people will use our app, and what average of age can use our app. We will continue of survey tomorrow because there is an interruption in the weather.