Month: May 2022

1. How was the pitching experience for you this week?

• Bit of a bummer. Very unfortunate that we could not all pitch in the big room with the coaches, I didn’t really get much of an experience out of my E6 pitch.

1. What resonated with you from pitch day?

• The event team put a lot of effort into their event, glad to see them do good. Karl and Kaelyn had a creative pitch. Oliver and Brian are doing a great job with Echo. Samuel and Maddie both did great with their respective E3 prompt.

1. What did you think of the E&I event this week? Were you able to network and connect with others at the event? Why or why not?

• I was not able to attend.

1. How are you feeling coming near the end of VP2? What are there areas that you are in need of support?

• I am feeling good, just wrapping everything up to graduate.

Outside of E&I this week

• I have a lot of big assignments due in all of my classes. I spent most of the week working on getting everything done early.

1. How did the technology prototyping workshop go for you?

• I thought it was good, Adam knows what he is talking about when it comes to that stuff. He has done a great job building software for our NFT project. I feel fairly confident in prototyping, but as far as building I am no programmer, I leave that to Adam.

1. How did the interviewing workshop go for you?

• I thought it was good. I feel fairly confident in my interviewing skills so far, it was a lot of the same that I have learned so far in the program.

1. Dress Rehearsals! How did this go for you and your team? What traction do you guys need to make before pitch day?

• I think it went okay, I honestly am not really that proud of my pitch for E&I. I have a go to pitch that I use in the NFT community when I am talking in twitter spaces, but that does not translate over to class. Because people in class do not really understand NFTs. This means I have to change a lot, and I can’t really say the things I want which is kind of a bummer. I do not need any other traction before pitching tomorrow.

Outside of E&I

• I spent this past week doing a ton of school work, this coming up week going into the three day weekend is very busy for me. This coming week may have the most deadlines out of any week during my time at Western. I have been getting a lot of work done in advance, so I can have time to work on the Pixies. Adam and I finally got a spot on the “Sovana Shark Tank” which is one of the biggest twitter spaces hosted weekly in the NFT community. We pitched against 3 other projects and won. The judges really liked our project, and they all started buying our NFTs and then tweeting about it. Which was a great feeling.

1. What are you going to take away from Sawyer’s presentation on budgeting? What resonated with you?

• I thought she did a presentation about legal entities. I thought her presentation was good, Adam and I just recently talked with a lawyer and accountant to figure everything out, and recently filed for an LLC.

1. What was your favorite part of E4 shift and share? What do you think you will carry along with you from these presentations?

• I liked Karl and Megs shift and share. I will carry with me the importance of relaxing and taking a break.

1. How are you feeling wrapping up Change Leadership? Any new sparks or ideas?

• Feeling good, I got my change leadership turned in last week. I did not find any new sparks.

Outside of E&I

• I did a lot of school work this past week, I have a bunch of different projects due within in the same week. I am trying to get some of them done in advance to make things a little bit easier.

1. How did the Jobs to be Done workshop go for you? Do you still have questions? How do you feel about the JTBD statement for your venture

• No questions for me, I created a JTBD for my venture last quarter and modified it a little bit this quarter.

1. What resonated with you from Ugly But Tasty? 

• Not much, Its really hard to get feedback from the class on the NFT project. Mostly because NFTs are a pretty complicated subject, and not a lot of people really know much about NFTs in general, so it is hard to get valuable advice/feedback.

1. How did “Got Your Back Consulting” go for you? How did you feel sharing ideas and feedback on others ventures?

• For my own project, it was not very valuable, but I do enjoy doing this to give feedback to others. I try my best to give some valuable feedback to the people in my group, I find it fun to try and problem solve a bunch of different projects in class. Overall it went great.

1. How is VP2 going as a whole? Are there any areas of confusion or need for support?

• Going great! No confusion, this quarter is getting very chaotic, just need to finish strong.

1. We launched Change Leadership this week! How was this experience for you? How are you doing heading into this project?

• Doing great! I have an interview scheduled with Morgan this week for the project.

Outside of E&I this week?

• I have been extremely busy with my school work this quarter, so I spent most of the week working and then working on my venture project. Adam and I talked with a lawyer and accountant this past week to figure everything out regarding the NFT project, so that we can operate legally and follow proper tax laws.