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Blog #4: Go Beyond the Limits
By: Lynn Lorelie D. Opaon
BSND2A
May 21, 2021
For the 2nd Lecture Series: Team Formation and Funding, speaker Ms. Keren Happuch Lacadin last April 28, 2021. I have learned that in starting business, it is best to be innovative in life, to see opportunity in everything and be a starting point in doing business. Teamwork is also an important especially in starting business as this will serve as a foundation in your growing business because everyone in the team have its role or purpose to improve the business.
Being selective and strategic in choosing the cofounders or a partner in business is crucial as this will help you improve the business or it will make it fail because of poor performance/support of the business partners. Entering or starting a start-up business, your product or innovation should have its purpose in the industry and last up to a long term product due to its purpose and importance in the human race.
For our business canvas, we are gathering data for the customer validation that are being processed and there are still adjustments for the final business model canvas. Disseminating surveys to our target customers to get suggestions and to improve our proposed product. Also, our had a brainstorming to finalize our priorities for our health app. We also excluded the "hassle-free" buying of medicine in our priority as this can be applied in the future version of our app. The online buying medicine is very tricky job and it should be put in our next patch/update.
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Blog #3: Start Up Experience
By: Lynn Lorelie D. Opaon
BSND2A
May 07, 2021
We presented our Business Model Canvas to our class and get feedback from our instructor on the things we have to improve our business and focusing on our priority or our target market. To focus more on catering our target market and provide on more efficient experience when they use our product. For us to gain more insights, we get ideas and recommendations from those who are interested on our proposed business and be able to satisfy our target market/customer. Lastly, our group is still brainstorming for our plan on ways to get the customer validation and to get their insights from our business model canvas.
We also had a first webinar last April 22, 2021 which is called Lecture Series 1-Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer with our guest speaker Dr. Gamaliela A. Dumancas of CMU IP-TBM. She discussed about the importance of intellectual property right of a product as it should be protected. One’s ideas should be protected as it is in the law and be punished when caught/dealt. As this property is owned by yourself and everyone can benefit to it when stolen or someone claimed it.
Getting your product or creation should be protected and must fit on the requirement like it should be new or novel, inventive step, and practical. There are a lot of of things to consider when making a product. Created product or ideas can be in the Utility Model, it is somewhat same with getting a patent but it is only be new and industrial applicable. However, once it's protected, there's no possibility of renewing it.
There is industrial design that consists aesthetic, shapes, prior to have originality of your product. Having a trademark or service mark is important since it does like advertisement, it also shows its origin and quality of the product.
Copyright and related right is important for many creators or authors as their original work, once protected it will last a lifetime and can be added for 50 years after death, family members can still receive royalty fees from the product used. When patenting your product, do patent search to avoid lengthy process and end up denied as the product is already in the market.
The importance of technology transfer and commercialization have a great impact to business. Transferring or sharing ideas to the community or specific company and making it great use can benefit both parties as the owner of the idea can receive royalty fees and acknowledgment of the idea/product. It also commercialize his work and be able to come up with new ideas for him to share.
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Blog #2: Data Gathering
By Lynn Lorelie D. Opaon
BSND2A
March 18, 2021
“I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” – Mike Ditka
We are experiencing lockdown in our cities because of COVID-19 virus spreading around the globe and this restricts us to go outside. Due to lockdown, people are also becoming unhealthy and needed some medical assistance in their homes. So we decided to make a health application called “Healthful App” in where it evaluates an individual current health status and nutritional condition (e.g. underweight, overweight, normal, obese) by just inputting personal data (i.e. weight, height, age, sex). The result will be the basis for the app to recommend foods and/ or food plans ideal for a proper daily diet. Moreover, it also provides a list of names of different doctors and other health professional (e.g. dietician, nutritionist) around the Philippines where the users can find and book online consultation directly from them, easily and hassle free.
To summarize the information that we gathered from our respondents by asking them this question “Considering our current situation, whenever you hear the “health”, does it bother you?”. Out of 106 respondents 83 answered “Yes” and 23 responded to “No”. Leading to the next question “Is there a time that you used Google and other social media platforms to search on how to stay physically fit due to your health consciousness? How to exercise? Or How stay healthy?” and most of the respondents answered “Yes” which is 100 out of 106. Many answered “Yes” (83 out of 106) when they surf through the internet to seek advisory/guidance to help achieving a healthy lifestyle.
Majority of the respondents finds the information they get from the internet are only 75% which are 52 of the 106 respondents. 82 of 106 responded that they wish that clinics/hospitals are near their area. Although 83 out of 106 responded that they are having a hard time visiting their doctors because of pandemic. There are 99 out of 106 responded to the question “Do you know how important to know first your current health status before planning a diet?”. Also, 87 people trust an app that recommend food that is based on their health status. 96 out of 106 respondents consider our app to be convenient way to achieve a healthy lifestyle after knowing our services. Furthermore, 95 out of 106 respondents believe that our app can help them achieving a healthy lifestyle even after the pandemic.
We also gathered some information from evaluation using Google Forms, here are some of their response for the relevance of our proposed health application:
“Yes, since it is pandemic many people are getting underweight, obese and normal weight it will help the individual what will they do for a diet and to have a healthy lifestyle.”
“Hence it's still too risky to visit hospitals/clinics to determine our health status. On the contrary, this then actively demonstrates that we can consider this mobile app essential and relevant today because of the fact it offers a myriad of ways in order to guide individuals in living a healthy life.”
“Relevant in terms of it being convenient, yes it is. As the pandemic going on, people doesn't really have an access on any medical establishment without being admitted into a serious illness. So, with mobile application, people can easily get access.”
“Yes, I consider it relevant today because doctors and other health workers are not really that reachable at situations like this. I may not be that type of a person who relies on an app, especially when it is about my health, but because it offers an online consultation from health professionals, I think it would be a reliable app.”
As going clinics and meeting a doctor especially dietitians in a face to face manner is hard because of pandemic and also due to work some are not available to visit them. People as well are inactive they are restrained to go outside to do workout so they just downloaded various app regarding to physical fitness to keep themselves fit despite there is pandemic. By downloading this app, it is accessible and very handy too as it keeps them on track on their health and their wellbeing.
They also recommended some details and concerns regarding to our proposed application to improve its accuracy and authenticity. They suggested that:
“I suggest make the UI (User’s Interface) being pleasing to the eyes because I've downloaded several similar apps and it's always the ones with the great UIs that gets to be used given that they also have cool features.”
“Ensure that there are evidences to support the information regarding the health facts and lifestyle that are being discussed inside the Healthful App.”
“But please consider an app that can be access by android or iOS users. Might as well put some video clip on top as for the novice of undergoing exercises. It will be like their coach along the way.”
“This mobile app is indeed a nice idea but I wanted to suggest that they should not only focus on giving suggestions for the foods to be consume but also give what are some exercises that would fit in every categories or a specific exercise in every nutritional status whether the person is normal, obese, underweight, and overweight. But overall I still see this app valuable.”
“It would be nice if all recommendations from this app are from actual medical practitioners. It would be more reliable and trustworthy if you can state their names, if possible.”
Furthermore, from their suggestions and perspective we have gathered information that will help enhance our app and can meet to their expectation. Guiding and giving them a physically fit and a healthy lifestyle. Also, that this app will be helpful to them in a long period of time.
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Blog #1: What I've learned in Entrepreneurial Mind
By Lynn Lorelie D. Opaon
BSND2A
February 24, 2021
"You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end." -Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot
What I have learned in our lecture made me understand that doing business or having a business is not easy as it looks. There are always ups and downs in developing a business. After all, everything starts in creating or discovering small things that can make up to dreaming something great.
There are plenty of things to consider in constructing a product or innovation to give support and make the things easier to the community. Especially during this pandemic and there is a lot of restrictions to be considered. That is why there are lots of business develop from the people who are staying home in order to feed themselves as they cannot go their jobs because of the pandemic.
Today, there are lots of technopreneurs that develop products or services to give benefits to their customers especially online shop, delivery services, and any other services related to technology as face to face interaction is restricted. We have also assessed ourselves using Berkeley Innovation Index (BII), it is a concept and an open project to offer simple yet powerful ways to measure innovation capability in a holistic sense.
Our groups also brainstormed on what product should we make or intervention that can make people’s lives easier. Also, we divided our task for us to work faster and efficient for our to be successful.
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