Week 1- General Idea

      I am currently working on an entrepenurial idea and am part of a start-up company called meetingsprout.com. Meetingsprout.com is an online service that offers calendars to students that contain their class schedule, important due dates, and university events.  Our vision is to allow students to simply log-in and receive all the above information without the need to input any information.  Through Meeting Sprout, students can view each others schedule and merge (sprout) them to see available times.  

      A unique feature of Meeting sprout is a group project facilitator.  Students can invite group project members to a page, and sprout all members class schedule to see overlapping times.  In addition, they are able to chat, assign tasks, upload documents, send blast emails, and many other features that will help facilitate group projects.

      Our long term vision is to sell this product to other universities, and then shift into the corporate world.  Group work is the backbone of any business, and can be very frustrating and complex.  Meeting sprout will provide project managers with a base of operation.  Meeting sprout  helps deal with the little annoying aspects of creating a meeting, like finding a place and time.  In addition, Meeting sprout will help keep teams functional by allowing users to add group objectives, assign tasks, send blast emails, upload documents, and many other key aspects that are involved in group work.