Existing Market- students
First Interview: student at UF
- He said he could see my next venture being something that can be very engaging with sports and universities across the nation.
-Thinks it has a lot of potentials and could be very popular with a variety of people.
-Said to make it something like college gameday but with a twist and unique.
Second Interview: FSU student
- Believes that this could be so big it can eventually become a huge event covered by Fox Sports, ESPN, Sports Talk, Bleacher Report, and modernized Barstool Sports.
Third Interview: Penn State Student
- Thinks I need an exact target plan with more information and detail
- Believes it can really take off if pictured right and implemented properly
- Believes that students and college sports fans will enjoy this a lot
- Thinks that sponsorships with broadcasters such as Bleacher Report should be first targets
New Market- those in a professional field
First Interview: a 34-year-old PR director
-It needs to be more detailed and planned.
- Believes it should be on the more "unorthodox" "never-seen-before" "barstool sports type" side.
Second Interview: a 45-year-old Event organizer
- Make it something the modern fan will enjoy and has never seen before
- Figure out a title that will hook people's interest
- How will this benefit people other than the fans such as the universities?
Friday, April 10, 2020
24A – Venture Concept No. 1
1. Opportunity
The opportunity I am looking to research more into is a scarce amount of parking around a large well-known public university in Florida (UF). This is an issue for residents in Gainesville, local friendly visitors, family visitors, and incoming student visitors.
2. Innovation
My service will be 4-6 implemented parking garages 6 floors per parking garages placed specifically in populated areas in the outer UF areas. These parking services will be charged per hour at cheap and favorable price rates with students favored discounts. These services are going to be essential in helping the Gainesville area have options for parking and to make people in the area lives easier.
3. Venture Concept
Customers will want to use my service because it honestly will be there most convenient and only option without the fear of being towed or ticketed. Technically, you can park your car anywhere but with the risk of being ticketed or even worse towed.
4. Minor Elements
The secret in my venture is my passion and horrific experience I have had in this town parking a car or scooter off-campus. I am ready to make a change in this town that is in desperate need of help in this area.
In my next Venture, I see myself working with college sports and the social aspect of it, maybe enhancing the overall experience at games or creating something to go from town to town making an exciting event to enter while enjoying the game of college football.
The next step for my current venture would be going into the construction phase and making these buildings not look plain and stand out in town to attract more attention to the landscape.
The opportunity I am looking to research more into is a scarce amount of parking around a large well-known public university in Florida (UF). This is an issue for residents in Gainesville, local friendly visitors, family visitors, and incoming student visitors.
2. Innovation
My service will be 4-6 implemented parking garages 6 floors per parking garages placed specifically in populated areas in the outer UF areas. These parking services will be charged per hour at cheap and favorable price rates with students favored discounts. These services are going to be essential in helping the Gainesville area have options for parking and to make people in the area lives easier.
3. Venture Concept
Customers will want to use my service because it honestly will be there most convenient and only option without the fear of being towed or ticketed. Technically, you can park your car anywhere but with the risk of being ticketed or even worse towed.
4. Minor Elements
The secret in my venture is my passion and horrific experience I have had in this town parking a car or scooter off-campus. I am ready to make a change in this town that is in desperate need of help in this area.
In my next Venture, I see myself working with college sports and the social aspect of it, maybe enhancing the overall experience at games or creating something to go from town to town making an exciting event to enter while enjoying the game of college football.
The next step for my current venture would be going into the construction phase and making these buildings not look plain and stand out in town to attract more attention to the landscape.
23A- Your Venture's Unfair Advantage
1. Networking
This is a very valuable trait, the ability to network and make connections can go a long way in anyone's life and could even set you up to conquer your dreams. It's not about what you know but about who you know.
Rare: No, fairly easy.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
2. Patience
Having patience is the key to creating and generating great work, not good or average but great work results.
Rare: Yes
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
3. Drive
The ability to have the drive to work towards things you love is essential to becoming a success story.
Rare: Yes
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
4. Persistence
Being persistent is key to keep your focus on something you are trying to achieve and persistence will eventually pay off, losing focus loses dreams and goals. Also, being persistent will increase your percentage of obtainability.
Rare: No, very easy.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
5. Time Management
This is very important because if you have bad time management skills, all hard work would eventually become a mess and serve no purpose.
Rare: Somewhat rare.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
6. Organization
If you have an unorganized way of doing something, it won't work. Organization is an early and crucial step to pave your way to success.
Rare: Somewhat rare.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
7.Communication
Without clear communication separation between you and everyone around you begins to settle in, this can be devastating to one's personal look, business, and overall life grip.
Rare: No, very easy.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
8. Problem Solving
This is huge in anything and everything someone does in their life. Problem Solving skills are essential because there will always be problems you face in life in every which way.
Rare: Fairly difficult
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
9. Flexibility
Flexibility is key in many different areas now you don't want to be too flexible but also don't want to be not flexible at all. There is a fine line in-between for flexibility and that is where the "best" operates.
Rare: No, very easily obtained.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
10. Passion
This is something that is not necessarily essential, but if you have passion for whatever you are doing the work will be more than excellent because it came from the hard-work passionate heart.
Rare: Depending on the situation
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
The most important thing on this list for me would have to be networking. I cannot stress enough from valuable extensive research and experience, the more people you know the better off you'll be and the more options and opportunities you will have throughout your lifetime.
This is a very valuable trait, the ability to network and make connections can go a long way in anyone's life and could even set you up to conquer your dreams. It's not about what you know but about who you know.
Rare: No, fairly easy.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
2. Patience
Having patience is the key to creating and generating great work, not good or average but great work results.
Rare: Yes
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
3. Drive
The ability to have the drive to work towards things you love is essential to becoming a success story.
Rare: Yes
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
4. Persistence
Being persistent is key to keep your focus on something you are trying to achieve and persistence will eventually pay off, losing focus loses dreams and goals. Also, being persistent will increase your percentage of obtainability.
Rare: No, very easy.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
5. Time Management
This is very important because if you have bad time management skills, all hard work would eventually become a mess and serve no purpose.
Rare: Somewhat rare.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
6. Organization
If you have an unorganized way of doing something, it won't work. Organization is an early and crucial step to pave your way to success.
Rare: Somewhat rare.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
7.Communication
Without clear communication separation between you and everyone around you begins to settle in, this can be devastating to one's personal look, business, and overall life grip.
Rare: No, very easy.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
8. Problem Solving
This is huge in anything and everything someone does in their life. Problem Solving skills are essential because there will always be problems you face in life in every which way.
Rare: Fairly difficult
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
9. Flexibility
Flexibility is key in many different areas now you don't want to be too flexible but also don't want to be not flexible at all. There is a fine line in-between for flexibility and that is where the "best" operates.
Rare: No, very easily obtained.
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
10. Passion
This is something that is not necessarily essential, but if you have passion for whatever you are doing the work will be more than excellent because it came from the hard-work passionate heart.
Rare: Depending on the situation
Inimitable: No
Non-substitutable: No.
The most important thing on this list for me would have to be networking. I cannot stress enough from valuable extensive research and experience, the more people you know the better off you'll be and the more options and opportunities you will have throughout your lifetime.
Friday, April 3, 2020
21A – Reading Reflection No. 2
Book) How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
1) The theme of this book is basically all about preparation for one's future. The author explained thoroughly that running a system in life is the ultimate way to be a "winner", it is how winners run and live their lives. He stated that losers have goals and winners have systems. Basically, he was saying having goals keeps you in constant failure until you have achieved that goal of yours, and even then your satisfaction isn't long-lasting.
2) This book helps enhance your knowledge of what life is like in the business world and how one needs to operate in it to become a "winner" or successful person. In this class, we are learning how to not only generate creative ideas, but the steps to pursue those ideas and map out a business model to make that idea a reality; and this book goes deeper into that aspect in a more general viewpoint, it is more about mapping your life out and heading it to the direction you want it to be at.
3) The exercise I would create would be to make all students take their "career goals" and form a proper system on how to get to those "goals". This would help students realize how much more reliable and effective systems are and actually benefit them with their current dreams in their careers. It will teach them organization and control.
4) The biggest moment in this book that shocked me was something I have always thought in my head to myself over the years, but always thought it was "wrong" of me to think. That is the art of being selfish. Our whole lives we are taught to think about others and family comes first, to always not be a selfish person but to be caring and generous. In this book, the author describes how important it is to be selfish and why you need to be selfish when it is about your life. The reason was that it is YOUR life and no one else's, which makes every decision you make for yourself effect it, so why wouldn't be selfish to better your life as the result... you would and you should, because nothing else should matter besides how you are and feel about your situation because that is the right you have to your life.
1) The theme of this book is basically all about preparation for one's future. The author explained thoroughly that running a system in life is the ultimate way to be a "winner", it is how winners run and live their lives. He stated that losers have goals and winners have systems. Basically, he was saying having goals keeps you in constant failure until you have achieved that goal of yours, and even then your satisfaction isn't long-lasting.
2) This book helps enhance your knowledge of what life is like in the business world and how one needs to operate in it to become a "winner" or successful person. In this class, we are learning how to not only generate creative ideas, but the steps to pursue those ideas and map out a business model to make that idea a reality; and this book goes deeper into that aspect in a more general viewpoint, it is more about mapping your life out and heading it to the direction you want it to be at.
3) The exercise I would create would be to make all students take their "career goals" and form a proper system on how to get to those "goals". This would help students realize how much more reliable and effective systems are and actually benefit them with their current dreams in their careers. It will teach them organization and control.
4) The biggest moment in this book that shocked me was something I have always thought in my head to myself over the years, but always thought it was "wrong" of me to think. That is the art of being selfish. Our whole lives we are taught to think about others and family comes first, to always not be a selfish person but to be caring and generous. In this book, the author describes how important it is to be selfish and why you need to be selfish when it is about your life. The reason was that it is YOUR life and no one else's, which makes every decision you make for yourself effect it, so why wouldn't be selfish to better your life as the result... you would and you should, because nothing else should matter besides how you are and feel about your situation because that is the right you have to your life.
Friday, March 27, 2020
20A – Growing Your Social Capital
Domain Expert: Todd Frank
Todd Frank is a treasurer for a big-time steel company in New York. He also works a lot with construction. He has dealt with the business of large buildings and areas in which they also have been in touch with parking garages and lots. He knows how crucial these are too many big-time areas and knows they can be a great impact in certain places and make the areas more likely to have visitors.
Market Expert: Joe Fradella
Joe Fradella is a parking lot manager at Yankee Stadium back in New York. He also runs a few other parking lot locations in the city and on Long Island. He is very familiar with how to operate such parking lots and knows how in certain areas parking lots like these can make some big money and make a positive impact on the community which also helps with the business.
Supplier: AJ Rozza
AJ Rozza owns his own construction company and has dealt with all types of projects ranging from street work to parking lots/garages to skyscraper renovation. He would be the guy to call to design these lots and make them look appealing to anyone looking to park, easy to navigate inside them and place them in the proper areas, in which they would attract the most people and create the most opportunity for business.
Reflection: I have always been one to network, not only for my own benefit of meeting people who can possibly help me with a job in my career in the future but to gain knowledge from professionals who have been doing what I want to do for so long. It is always good to expand your network web because you never know when it can help you out later in life and it is also good to gain some insider knowledge on everything. I still follow this to this day, "It's not all about what you know, but is all about who you know", this was told to me by one of the most successful people I know who's been working on Wall Street for 20 years.
Todd Frank is a treasurer for a big-time steel company in New York. He also works a lot with construction. He has dealt with the business of large buildings and areas in which they also have been in touch with parking garages and lots. He knows how crucial these are too many big-time areas and knows they can be a great impact in certain places and make the areas more likely to have visitors.
Market Expert: Joe Fradella
Joe Fradella is a parking lot manager at Yankee Stadium back in New York. He also runs a few other parking lot locations in the city and on Long Island. He is very familiar with how to operate such parking lots and knows how in certain areas parking lots like these can make some big money and make a positive impact on the community which also helps with the business.
Supplier: AJ Rozza
AJ Rozza owns his own construction company and has dealt with all types of projects ranging from street work to parking lots/garages to skyscraper renovation. He would be the guy to call to design these lots and make them look appealing to anyone looking to park, easy to navigate inside them and place them in the proper areas, in which they would attract the most people and create the most opportunity for business.
Reflection: I have always been one to network, not only for my own benefit of meeting people who can possibly help me with a job in my career in the future but to gain knowledge from professionals who have been doing what I want to do for so long. It is always good to expand your network web because you never know when it can help you out later in life and it is also good to gain some insider knowledge on everything. I still follow this to this day, "It's not all about what you know, but is all about who you know", this was told to me by one of the most successful people I know who's been working on Wall Street for 20 years.
19A – Idea Napkin No. 2
1. You
My name is Nicholas Scibilia and I am a Sport Management major here at UF. I have always been told I have the traits you need to become successful and that is my confidence and drive. I have no doubt in myself when I am working toward something that somehow I will get it done, and when working toward my goals I always know I will eventually achieve them and work non-stop until I do. I also believe that I will achieve my dreams in life and can't wait to work toward them until I get them.
2. What are you offering to customers?
I am offering to customers an area to have their cars parked with tolls to get in and be able to park their cars when visiting friends in other apartments or even just going somewhere and street parking isn't available.
3. Who are you offering to?
My product is for anyone who is in the Gainesville area, whether they are visiting or living there, just anyone in need of quick parking for a cheap price.
4. Why do they care?
They care because there is little to no guest parking at apartment complexes and the street parking in this city is absolutely atrocious, there are barely any areas with street parking and when there is it's on a street where there really shouldn't be any because it's too narrow.
5. What are your core competencies?
My core competencies are my ability to get tasks done and my passion for what I am doing and why I am exactly doing it. I am a very hard worker and get the job that's needed to be done finished properly, and I am passionate about this because I live through this and know there needs to be a fix in this parking situation in this city; which ultimately gives me an incentive to work harder on my projects.
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