Interviewing Customers No. 2

Interviewing Customers No. 2

The opportunity that I came up with is: an app that allows people to sell or rent their home/apartment/dorm décor. Understand that there are other websites and apps like this such as eBay and craigslist.  However, to make me opportunity better, the idea that I have is to make the app only work for current college students living within a certain radius of the campus. BY doing this you can ensure that you are getting stuff that is close to you and that works for the apartments or dorms that you may live in.

The people who I believe will have this unmet need are students that attend college that move from dorms to apartments or vice versa. I believe I need to make a wider selection of people including boys and girls living on and off campus.

Questions for “customers”:

1.       Do you live in a dorm or an apartment?

2.       Where do you plan to live next year?

3.       What problems did you have with selling or buying room décor?

4.       How do you think you can fix it?

5.       What do you think about an app that lets you rent, buy and sell décor within the University of Florida?
Tips:
1. Be prepared to feel awkward.
2. Have your questions ready.
3. Find people who look like they have time.
 

 

Outcome:

I ended up with the same outcome as before, no one really wants to elaborate on their answers. I guess you have to find people who show interest. Maybe interviewing people while they are moving would be the best option.

Elevator Pitch No. 1

Elevator Pitch No. 1

Company Name:

Décor Swap

Opportunity:

College students moving from dorm to apartment to house. Problem? Each space needs different accessories. The dorm needs twin size bedding and everything mini. Apartment and house need furniture and more décor. But what do you do with your old stuff? Throw it away? Sell it and pay ridiculous shipping costs? How do you buy new stuff? How do you find new stuff and transfers it hours away?

Solution:

My solution to this is an app that allows you to post what you want to buy or sell or rent within the college campus. This allows you to find things quickly in your surrounding area. Also, by only having it work within the campus, you can be sure that your décor and other accessories work for your dorm or apartment.

*Please ignore how awkward this video is.   

Week 5 Reading Reflection

For the week five reading I didn’t really find anything surprising because in previous chapters it went over ways to get around these failures. This chapter didn’t really have anything that was confusing besides the difference between the two approaches. They both are the same criteria just a different way of approaching it. I do have a couple of questions about the “technical feasibility.” Other than that I agree with what the author had to say about all the different obstacles that can get in the way when you are trying to start a new ventures.