ToDone -
Hello World,
We're ToDone, a startup team working out of Cornell Tech during the spring semester. We're a mix of MBA and M.Eng in Computer Science graduate students looking to create a platform that allows you have a smarter to-do list, one that intelligently tells you what it can outsource for you at what cost. Rather than manage several different outsourcing options, it does that for you from one central account....or that's the direction we're moving in!
So far, our team has had several ideation sessions and performed a first bout of customer research on privacy and to-do list platforms. We've been whiteboarding out our idea and examining it in product management philosophy. From class demonstration with another team, then putting it into action within our own, we learned to map the product into the following: narrative (the why), how (the what), goals, assumptions, unknowns. These factors start leading more into the tactical execution points and raising questions around investigation points. For example, one team member raised the question of privacy and how personal to-do lists are and to get a gut feel, we decided to ask our Cornell Tech family if they were willing to give us their to-do list in any fashion to help our start up project.
We got quite a response of to-do lists in a variety of forms, offers to show us and push back on how that was a very private thing. Part of what we're working on this week is digging through the data we got, as well as profiling the market landscape from a business and technical viewpoints!
Stay tuned for more updates and fun from the ToDone team,
Kate (who uses a strange combination of Trello, a sticky noted planner and calendar invites to get things from to-do to done)