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Who: After conducting the exercise "Hypothesis 1", I was able to interview potential users of the proposed web and mobile application.  I then discovered that even among the people who I would initially consider of being a potential user of this product, may end up not being a customer depending mainly on: whether they have or do not have health insurance and whether they have the time to use it or not. What: This need differs from other needs that would require another kind of therapy other than speech therapy. Why: The underlying cause for the outsiders needs being different from those inside the boundary is that this proposed application would work with speech therapy because it deals with cognitive and communication skills. Other kinds of therapy (physical, occupational) required knowledge that can not be taught to parents through the web or mobile application. During this second set of interviews, I have noticed that not all parents who have children that need spee...

Solution to  Selected Opportunity The opportunity I selected is the opportunity mentioned in the post "7A", regarding the expensive cost of speech therapy for children. Product/Service The idea is to offer a combination of a product and service. The product/service will be the web and mobile application where parents who have children with speech therapy needs can receive their evaluation online and chose to either take their children to a clinic to receive therapy, do the therapy themselves or a combination of both. Additionally, parents who have children that do not need speech therapy could also use this application to further develop their children cognitive and communication skills.

1) Opportunity Speech therapy for children is very expensive to families who do not have insurance. Additionally parents that have children with severe speech therapy needs may need more therapy than what the insurance covers every week. 2) Opportunity Description To create a web and mobile application where speech therapy patients can over the internet receive a evaluation/diagnostic (every six months) of their children speech therapy needs and have weekly goals for their children to achieve where the parents will be instructed on how to give therapy themselves to their children, avoiding the high cost of therapy (without insurance around $60 per visit twice a week). For the parents who have insurance and can take their children weekly to receive therapy, it is still beneficial to use the application as, the more therapy the child the receives, the faster they will advance. Therapy fro children is usually done through specific games that may target a specific skill such as: shap...

Questions A) Where opportunity was found (source of opportunity) B) What leads to believe that an opportunity might exist C) Who is most likely the customer for this opportunity D) Is the opportunity relatively easy or relatively difficult to exploit E) Why did I see an opportunity ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economic Trends Opportunities 1) Low unemployment rate in the US Answers A)  http://fortune.com/2018/05/04/unemployment-rate-century-low-percent/ B) This is an great opportunity for employees to fill their unmet needs for a job with higher pay and more fringe benefits. C) All US workers. D) I would say it is neither easy or difficult. The process of changing jobs (or even careers) varies drastically depending on a variety of factors, such as: employee's happiness level with current job, pay, location, hours, benefits, perks, etc. E) I saw this opportunity as I have ...

Requirements A) The title of the article B) The link to the article C) A description of the story, in your own words D) A description of the problem presented in the story E) A description of who has the problem ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities 1) Potential Opportunity A) 2 Lake County students made threats, arrested B) https://infoweb-newsbank-com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&t=pubname%3AORLB%21Orlando%2BSentinel%252C%2BThe%2B%2528FL%2529/year%3A2018%212018/mody%3A0912%21September%2B12&f=advanced&action=browse&format=text&docref=news/16E63B590D97C450 C) Students making threats of starting a shooting in their schools D) The problem is that security in schools need to be made more efficient E)  All schools students and employees who have their life at risk if these threats are not caught on time 2) Potential Oppo...

Part 1 What is the unmet need? Better public transportation in the city of Orlando, FL. Who has the need? Any and all people who live and travel to the city of Orlando, FL. Where did the need come from? The need has always existed. Public transportation does exists, however one may need to wait 2 hours on a bus stop in order to catch a bus towards the desired location. What are people doing to meet this need now? Those who have money to buy a car, and pay for insurance, gas and maintenance, meet this need buy using a car. Those who do not have money, have to deal with the public transportation as it is. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 2 Interview Questions 1) Do you use public transportation? 2) If we had a better public transportation system, where buses would be available every 15-30 minutes, would you use it? 3) How often would you use it? 4)...

One thing my dad has always thought me was to always think with a entrepreneur mindset, to never settle by simply working for someone else. I remember a time when I was around 10 years old and my father used to work by creating events to advertise politicians in our city. Something happened and he lost a contract he had been counting on. He then decided he needed to do something so compensate that contract that was lost.  He then had an idea of making a few customized items to sell to businesses, we purchased the necessary parts and starting making them. Amount the items that we sold the most was a wall clock. We would purchase the glass from a store near our house, print the image (clock with the customer's logo on it), purchase the three pointers (hour, minute and seconds) along with the clock motor from a store in the downtown area of our city and we would make these wall clocks at home. We did not make a fortune, but it was enough to get us through that tough time. ...

The Bug List 1) When at a Subway restaurant, the employee who was cleaning the floor with a broom or wiping the counter does not wash their hands before starting to make your sandwich. Why: This bug exists possibly due to lack of SOP (standard operating procedures) training or lack or supervision to ensure employees comply with hygiene training. 2) When driving in the middle lane of a highway at speed at maximum speed limit, a driver is behind you blinking his headlights because he/she wants you to move over. Why: This bug exists due to lack of: responsibility, knowledge of driving regulations and at the end of the day also a "bit" of intelligence since the left lane is open for him/her to fly as fast as they desire 3) When at the gym people don't clean the equipment they just used and leave their sweat all over it Why: It exists due to lack of consideration for other people who will use the machine after them 4) When at the gym people put their bag in one mach...