Entrepreneurship 2190
Today I am going to talk about my venture in Entrepreneurship 2190. This is a class that meets once a week and it has seventy people in it. Now that may not seem like a lot of a college class, but if you know anything about Trinity, you know that we pride ourselves on having a student-faculty ratio of 9:1. This class pretty much beats that to a pulp. However, it's a wonderful class and group of people, so I'm not complaining. Anyways, here is an outline of what went on the entire semester.
In the first two weeks of school everyone came up with an idea to pitch, then we met in small groups to decide which idea would be pitched in class. Then those small group pitch ideas were pitched to the entire lass and we all voted upon which ones we would be interested in working on. The top fifteen were chosen and then we formed into groups. This was a very fast process that no one really had time to think about until it was over. I ended up in a group with Sasha Faust, Robbie Andres, and John Croxton. I didn't really know much about any of them in the beginning, however, now I can't say the same. Sasha had the winning pitch idea of a campus calendar that could be customized by school and students could learn about what was going on on campus everyday. This was an idea that we all liked, but for some reason or another we chose to look into other ideas. At first we were stuck, I mean thinking of new start up ideas is hard at first, until there comes a point where it isn't. All of a sudden we started coming up with ideas left, right, and center. Some of the were absolute rubbish, some of them were brilliant and crazy, and some of them were great. We needed a great one, but we also needed feasibility. Now we were all filing through tons of ideas, most of the crazy ones were mine, I have an overactive imagination. But we finally landed on a solid idea, the one we are working on now.
Sifter.
Sifter is an idea right now, but one we hope to make real. The idea is to have one place that holds all your social media accounts. That's not the only caveat though, the most important part is the filter. For each social media account you can filter out the people that you don't want to view. Do you have 1,000 friends on Facebook and only actually want to see 100 of them? Filter out the nine hundred. This is such a common problem amongst our generation and we believe that filtering people out without them knowing is the solution. Of course, we have done market research that shows that people do in fact have these problems and would use this solution. On the last day of class, we pitched the idea to everyone and presented our market research. This was fun because I love pitching. We also said that we were pursuing our idea until next semester, so I'll update next semester on our progress.
-Shivani
In the first two weeks of school everyone came up with an idea to pitch, then we met in small groups to decide which idea would be pitched in class. Then those small group pitch ideas were pitched to the entire lass and we all voted upon which ones we would be interested in working on. The top fifteen were chosen and then we formed into groups. This was a very fast process that no one really had time to think about until it was over. I ended up in a group with Sasha Faust, Robbie Andres, and John Croxton. I didn't really know much about any of them in the beginning, however, now I can't say the same. Sasha had the winning pitch idea of a campus calendar that could be customized by school and students could learn about what was going on on campus everyday. This was an idea that we all liked, but for some reason or another we chose to look into other ideas. At first we were stuck, I mean thinking of new start up ideas is hard at first, until there comes a point where it isn't. All of a sudden we started coming up with ideas left, right, and center. Some of the were absolute rubbish, some of them were brilliant and crazy, and some of them were great. We needed a great one, but we also needed feasibility. Now we were all filing through tons of ideas, most of the crazy ones were mine, I have an overactive imagination. But we finally landed on a solid idea, the one we are working on now.
Sifter.
Sifter is an idea right now, but one we hope to make real. The idea is to have one place that holds all your social media accounts. That's not the only caveat though, the most important part is the filter. For each social media account you can filter out the people that you don't want to view. Do you have 1,000 friends on Facebook and only actually want to see 100 of them? Filter out the nine hundred. This is such a common problem amongst our generation and we believe that filtering people out without them knowing is the solution. Of course, we have done market research that shows that people do in fact have these problems and would use this solution. On the last day of class, we pitched the idea to everyone and presented our market research. This was fun because I love pitching. We also said that we were pursuing our idea until next semester, so I'll update next semester on our progress.
-Shivani
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