July 10: Learning that failure is the key to success and running meetings efficiently
Today's workshops began with the topic of FAILURE. At first when I think of failure, I just want to not think about any times I failed in my life. Before the workshop, I thought of failure to be a regret in my life.
Then students came up to share their stories of when they thought they failed and as a result of these experiences, they have prevented failure to happen again in these circumstances. Failure does bring light to life in that it teaches you a valuable lesson to not make mistakes again and move forward in the direction of success.
Our team applied this concept to our product idea that we were trying to come up with. Since our concept completely transformed from what it was on Day One and we were still in the process of finding a painpoint to address and solve as our start up project, we thought we failed because we sill didn't have an idea. However, we learned that we shouldn't rush into an idea without careful consideration and team support from the group.
Chris Burry provided us great input on how to prepare working with potential customers for our product. He gave us a guideline to follow especially on how to sell our ideas effectively. Some ways include creating a story to capture the customer's feelings and emotions to want the product.
Following the customer needs, we also discussed team needs and how to manage meetings effectively and efficiently. Chris Burry provided us with guideline to run meeting agendas, prepare for them, and execute them in a solid way.
Today's lessons: let failure be a motivating factor for success and efficiency is key in every aspect of the start up life.