Daily Archives: October 24, 2016

During the last weeks I’ve been collection feedback on our venture idea to form a picture of what people think about the Bluetooth hub idea. Recap: The idea is connecting your phone to a hub, and the hub is connected to one or more Bluetooth speakers, in order to amplify the sound volume for parties and gatherings with a lot of people.

The people I’ve decided to ask for feedback is people in my everyday life, classmates and friends. Of course the fact that I know them will influence their answer, both in a positive and negative way. The negative is that they maybe would not tell me if they think I could be hurt or offended by their opinion. The positive is that they will maybe take more time to give me more accurate feedback, more time to get into the idea and what it is about.

The key questions that I’ve been asking about the idea is:

• What do you think about this idea?
• What kind of problems do you think can appear?
• Is there anything that could make this device better?
• Would you buy this device?
• How much are you willing to pay?

The overall reaction to the idea was good, not that they were amazed about it but everybody I asked would buy this device depending on the quality and did think it was a good idea. I got some divergent thoughts about what kind of problems could appear, some thought that the synchronization of the sound could be a problem and other that maybe crosstalk between Bluetooth speakers could be a problem. The price was about the same for all the people asked, around 400 SEK was everybody willing to pay for the device.

Overall I did not get any feedback that would make us to consider a change in the idea but the feedback contributed to get a better picture what the price range is, on this kind of device. Also we will consider the problems that was highlighted, especially the problem about the synchronization of the speakers.

That was all, over and out!

I’ve been helping two new startups by trying out their apps and then reviewed them to give the feedback.

WOKwiki

During my visit to the STHLM TECH meetup last week there was three start-ups that was pitching their ideas, one of the start-ups is this app called WOKwiki. From their pitch I did not get the best impression but still I decided to download the app and try it out.

The WOKwiki is a quiz app that is providing the user with questions based upon Wikipedia articles and also you can, if you feel that you have the knowledge, create your own questions based upon a Wikipedia article. You can play against your friends through facebook or just against random people generated by the app, either way you will play one category and your score will be saved in that category for other people to beat.

My first impression of the app is a little bit messy, there is a lot of buttons and information when you get to the homepage and even more when you start to look around. ONE think that is really bothering me is that you need to sign in either through facebook or create an account just to try the game. I think one important thing is that the app should be fast and easy to download and try out, then get stuck.

 

I have some suggestions to changes that maybe can be helpful for the development team; make the app more intuitive and less buttons, make it possible to try the functionality without signing in and make the user connect the account when the user is hooked, separate the take quiz and create question because I think there is different users that will make the questions and just play the game and last but not least try to focus on making the game good instead of all the other functionality.

  

Overall I think the app is a good idea but it still needs some rework, make it easier and more lean and separating the create question part from the game part. Or integrate the question making in the game? And once again, do not try to do everything at once, try to do one thing really good. Why I’m pushing on this is because I did see that you had other apps that you are trying to launch at the same time.

Tower blockade

For my second startup I decided to google around to find an app that I could help with feedback and after some googling I stumbled upon the game Tower Blockade. I found it on this tech.co site in an article promoting newly upcoming apps that you should try out this week.

The tower blockade game is a strategy game that is challenging the player to defend himself from different bubbles coming towards the goals. The player need to build defensing towers and combine them to make them stronger, some of you have probably played games like this before, it’s a classic tower defense game.

The app itself have a very lean and clean look, easy to navigate and only two choices when you start up, level mode or challenge mode, this is making the app very intuitive and fast to get into. This kind of strategy games is, at least for me a reason to overusing of my cellphone. It’s easy to get stuck trying to increase the level and beat the bubbles. It’s not a complicated game and you get instructions during the first level which is making you ease into the game when playing. It’s a really nice looking app and the game is perfectly challenging for me. I highly recommend this game if you have some spare time to kill, which I know there is not many students that have.

 

Entrepreneurship affects your social life, so why not include your social life in your entrepreneurial projects? I have actually interrupted 3 different pleasant dinners to talk about the venture idea we currently are writing about and hopefully are about to execute. I have asked a couple of my friends, my girlfriend and my family which makes them a jury consisting of 7 people and the feedback I received were actually so good that I wrote almost every idea/question down in bullet points.

 

Idea in short: The idea is basically a platform to connect part time restaurant workers with companies in need of employees due to suddenly changed work load. We will act like a consulting company where we are ‘’hiring’’ people and their availability will be frequently updated so we can match the restaurants needs with some suggestions of workers they could hire from us. The revenue streams will mainly come from a percentage of the salary the restaurants will pay us for supplying them with workforce and the biggest cost will be the salarys we have to pay our ‘’employees’’.

 

The most relevant questions/ideas:

 

1. How are you going to verify the workers?
2. How will you be sure that your workers wont sign a contract direct with the restaurant?
3. What happens if your workers don’t show up/perform badly?
4. Is the part time workers for restaurants in Oslo a big enough industry?
5. What taxes will you have to pay as a consultant employer in Norway?
6. Will you outsource the verification process or create a software for it?

 

As I said I received quite a lot of feed back, and these bullet points were the most relevant questions which we had to answer in our written project. Actually no one said that idea was not feasible and they all seemed to agree that the idea was good enough to actually execute. A negative aspect of getting feed back from your friends and family could be that they do not want to be negative and tend to encourage maybe a little bit too much. But as my friends are entrepreneurs themselves I am sure that they provided me with honest opinions and thoughts!

 

This was actually really helpful wherefore I suggest that you all do the same!