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Interview here, Interview there.

We created a Value Proposition Canvas and a Business Thesis template during last week's activity, and now it's time to really get to know our customer during this week's activity. This week, I understood how vital it is to develop a relationship with the target customer, because the team is having trouble discovering people who are selling in the market, which is one of our target customers is public market sellers. But before the actual interview phase, the team gathered and brainstormed to formulate hypothesis which is our assumption towards the effectiveness of our solution to the customer, and to be honest this took a lot of time because the team really examining all the possibilities and after that the come up with the interview question to really know the pains of our target customers.

After formulating the interview questions, at this point the team interviewed people, in our case we interviewed two types of user, the consumer and the sellers. Although sometimes it is frustrating because the respondents is very minimal with their answers(hahaha), but as what the instructor said the customer's pain is very important, we do not create our own solution, but we create solution based on the pains of the customers, and for me that was an eye opener I realized at that point that the solution the we are making is pointless if we base our solution on our own rather than from the customer's pain. The interview is smooth we gain a lot of insights from the respondents and sometimes we relate from them especially in their frustration with the traffic, overall the first interview session for the customer discovery was fun and great and the team is hoping for more insights and hinanakits of the customers in the coming interview sessions.

The team's moral is very high for the coming weeks and we are more eager to discover our customers.

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Discovering the Customer

In my own perspective, in order to effectively and efficiently solve any kind of problems is to really understand the factors that really affects the affected entities. In this week's lecture I gain more informative insights regarding discovering the customers where it is important in our journey in this course. Creating a solution or particularly creating a product to address a problem does not rely only on the creative idea of the creator alone, but relating and discovering the pain of the target customer is really important before integrating it with the proposed solution, validating the idea is very important to really examine if the problem really exist or do people really suffer from that phenomenon.

In this week's activity we are task to create a value proposition canvas to really discover the customer's pains in their journey buying goods for their consumption, by talking to some people we discovered the struggles of the people with different walks in life the struggle when buying goods in the market and somehow we do relate also, but we discovered different factors that impacts their pains when buying goods. After creating observing the target customer we then created a design that is base on the customers' gains, pains. The important thing that I really learned in week 3 is that the customer is the vital piece of a product, we can't just ignore them but we need to observe and understand the different factors that really affects them, idea or a solution is really simple to generate, but to generate an efficient solution that is also sustainable at the same time is really challenging because we need to form a relationship with the target customer and at the same time relate to their struggles and understand them more.

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New Beginning with Hardworking Team

Finding a group with excellent characteristics and with whom it is simple to form chemistry is tough for an introverted person who only limits himself to his own circle. I recognize that this journey will be difficult, so I need to be with someone who will understand and whom I can trust and create a good relationship with. Communication is the key to building a strong relationship. In order for us to form a strong team, we need constant, free-flowing communication. Deciding who will be a part of the team is difficult because there are certain roles that every member must fit together with their skill set and desire based on the discussion.

I gained a lot of insights from the lecture on team formation, especially in terms of forming the team and other issues. My experience in selecting my groupmates has been pretty challenging; some people have asked me to join them, and I have also asked others to join me, until I eventually found a group with whom I am comfortable and in which I can focus. I also applied some mechanics that I learned during the discussion, I met with my group then there I learned a lot of things about them, there strengths and knowledge that will be initial for assigning our different roles base on our skillsets. Right now I am happy with my group and I hope that we will grow together and build a strong friendship that could last for a life time, we are ready mentally and physically with this journey.