Week 8- Final Summary Post

Meeting Sprout is an online calendar-based platform that revolutionizes the way people organize and schedule to create a more meaningful and productive life. 

Picture your upcoming week for a second.  You have things on your mind such as deadlines, tasks, leisure, sports, meetings, and those are just the tip of the ice berg.  Most people take one of two roads. They either give up on themselves with all the stresses life has, or they spend all their time trying to manage lives complexities that they fail to have any time to actually enjoy their life. 

We first started recognizing this issue our society has through my experience in college.  Given all the amazing opportunities college offers, we watched as students simply give up on themselves.  They were ignoring their classes, turning to drugs and video games, or just dropping out.  Then there are students who are succeeding in college, but they spend so much time planning, structuring, trying to stay on top of things that they run out of time to actually enjoy life.

We plan to charge both businesses large and small to have their own calendar based page, giving their consumer pool easy access to them through static information, making appointments, or transactions through the calendar.  They can purchase premium features, which allow their customers to make appointments and transactions through their calendar.  They can also purchase market research on their consumer pool.

My idea has evolved from a platform to a central hub throughout the semester, and I also have gotten into Emerging talk through the Sandbox. The project was great and helped me advance my idea as well as put it down on paper.

I commented on Alyssa Maria Brennan, Hunter Simon, and Tony Zeng.

 

Week 7- Blog Review Post

Tech Crunch is a popular tech blogging site where users can blog about technological things such as the android, operating systems and hardware. Jason Kincaid is a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’.You can reach him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com

In this blog, Kincaid introduces two entrepreneurs, Matt Galligan and Joe Stump. He tells the story of how the people wanted to create location based games, and ran into a roadblock because the technology or computing power did not exist. They then set out to build software and servers that could handle location based request and basically  made what they wish they had. They launched one year ago and already have mass databases that include Places and Context.


You can read more at the blog source http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/simplegeo-launches-storage-a-distributed-hosted-database-for-location-data/

Week 6- The Market

Our initial market will be college students and universities.

Meeting Sprout’s Primary market serves the needs of small businesses such as local food establishments, hair dressors, or health related practices.  Just to name a few

Meeting Sprout’s secondary market services the needs of larger corporations, ranging from professional sports teams to department stores to non-profit organizations.

Market caps have been derived by quatifying each market, and cutting it down by 75%.  We do this to account for unpredictable variables.

Ultimately, with superior brand name recognition, Meeting Sprout is perfectly positioned to target individual end users, including previously untapped client bases such as housewives and retirees. 

We chose this as our primary market due to the overwhelming growth in technology, and the need for small businesses to keep up with this growth. Many small businesses cannot afford to have websites made, or may not even be aware of its importance.  Our service allows small businesses to successfully reach their consumer pool at a price they can afford.

Week 4- The problem

We first started recognizing this issue our society has through my experience in college.  Given all the amazing opportunities college offers, we watched as students simply give up on themselves.  They were ignoring their classes, turning to drugs and video games, or just dropping out.  Then there are students who are succeeding in college, but they spend so much time planning, structuring, trying to stay on top of things that they run out of time to actually enjoy life.

After talking with people, mainly professors…we realized that these are not just issues that college students have, they are issues everyone has. After tremendous amounts of research, we have narrowed it down to three main problems.  These are the time, lack of information, and scheduling around others.

           So, we created a web based community that allows individuals, groups, and businesses to organize themselves, and interact over a publicly displayed calendar based platform.