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Customer Segments

11th blog 

       Last week was a tiring one. I was assigned to conduct an interview to the potential users (habal-habal drivers) of our mobile application. During the interview with the first habal-habal driver I was a little bit shy. The questions to be asked to him are jumbled in my mind since interviewing people is not my forte; but as I go along conducting interviews to habal-habal drivers everything goes fine and right. I did enjoy during the interview and eventually got good feedbacks on what I have unveil to them but somehow other habal-habal drivers didn’t like the idea for some reasons.

       On the other hand, last Wednesday (March 15, 2017) I thought we will be presenting our updated slide decks but Sir Mabulay did a discussion about Customer Development. In building a company you have to do the process of (Customer Discovery-Customer Validation-Customer Creation). Searching for a repeatable, scalable, and executing a business model could established startup venture into an organization. Also, he added in his discussion the rule of validating an idea during in an interviews/talks.

       As instructed by Sir Mabulay next Wednesday we will be presenting the updated slide decks including the empathy map, but before that we have to do consultations to him. That would be all as of now and God bless. 

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Create Something from Observation

10th Blog  

       Last week we had our presentation again on the first four parts of the Lean Canvass. One of my Teammates was the one who presented our slides. Then, our instructor commented and suggested on the said presentation. I expected errors since we haven’t done an interview at that time. Though we have errors during the presentation I know we can overcome this and fix everything.

       Last Thursday (March 9, 2017) we had our make-up class and our instructor discussed the most important part in doing a start-up which is “The Voice of the Users”. From that, we learned about observing with curiosity and empathy that we need to observe what our customers do, listen to the stories they tell us, and look for the gaps between what they say and what they actually do and ask why? And only then, we can create solutions to fit those needs. In doing a start-up observation entails understanding needs at the levels of use, usability, and meaning. Then, this part, wireframing is needed because to imagine an idea is totally different from to experience. Thus, presenting your solution with prototypes or wireframes would help you to validate your product to be made.

       On the other hand, our instructor gave us an assignment which we are going to fill-up the Empathy Map. Then, for this activity we will be conducting an interview with our early adopters. We are hoping that we we will gather noteworthy answers from them.  As of now, the team is still enhancing our slide deck that we will be presenting by next week. Good luck to us.