Reflecting on this first week on a Venture Project One Team…
How’s it going?
With your team?
So far it is going great with our team! It seems like we have a really good group and everyone seems eager to contribute. We have already met once and made a clear plan of action, established clear assignments for everyone, and we seem to have very fluid and honest communication as well. I think as long as we maintain our schedule we should be able to produce a pretty good project!
With the evidence-based entrepreneurship skills?
So far for this venture project, evidence-based entrepreneurship is a little bit harder. We are focusing on making businesses more accessible to those with hearing impairments or language barriers. Because of this, we have to seek out people who struggle with those issues to interview. First, it is somewhat hard to find those people to interview because I am not actively involved in any of these communities. Second when these people are found it is somewhat hard to interview them because of the issues we are addressing. However, I am confident we will be able to gather some good evidence that hopefully supports our project idea.
With discovering a new accessibility opportunity?
Honestly, this prompt seemed really difficult to me at first. I think the reason for that was mostly because we were hit with the prompt and then immediately sent to interview before we even had a solid understanding of the prompt. At first, we were interviewing people and asking them questions like, “what are the most common accessibility issues that your business faces?” Most of the time the immediate response was, “what do you mean accessibility?” Which I felt was quite relatable with the prompt being so broad. However, the more we were able to dive into it the more ideas we were able to come up with, and the more clear the opportunities were.
Where are you feeling the need for support at this point in the quarter?
At this point, I really feel like I need support with finding people to interview. So far I have one but I need to figure out a way to reach more people within the niche of accessibility that we are trying to handle. Luckily it sounds like my group members are finding some people to interview so collectively we should have some pretty good evidence to work with.
I had the exact same difficulty with the prompt at first as well, it seemed that everything moved so quickly there was no time to properly think of what to ask and who to ask it from. But I like how you’re working together with your team and figuring out ways you could interview the right people for your project.
Hey Gabe,
I agree the prompt was really vague and it was definitely challenging to just jump right out into interviewing the public right after. We certainly ran into some hiccups with our interviews too since we didn’t have much time to prepare. I’m glad everything is going well with your team though! Y’all did great! Let me know if you ever need an interview!
-Kaelyn
a good tip on finding people to interview, go to Viking union and find people sitting down, just go up and ask if they have a couple minutes to get interviewed for your class. Most people are nice and will let you interview them!
Hey Gabe,
Glad to hear that your team/project are going well so far! Given the nature of your project it’s definitely understandable that you’re struggling to find interviewees in your target market. Luckily, you have a team who will hopefully have some contacts to interview.
However it’s a good bit of learning to carry forth that it’s important to choose a problem where you have access to the target market. If you can’t find the right people to interview then how are you going to reach them when you have a solution to their problem? It seems like your team was able to gather evidence despite this barrier this time tho, so congrats on the project going well thus far :).