Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Idea Napkin No. 2

1) Hello! I am Austin Ham a second year Finance major at the University of Florida. I believe I have strong interpersonal and leadership skills. As for technical ability, I am well versed much of the Microsoft program realm. I have been President of both my student body and the National Honors Society at my high school. I am also in a professional fraternity on campus. My aspirations are to be in the marketing or sales department of a company to enable myself to both conduct business and interact with others. My aspirations for my app, or entrepreneurial opportunity, are to get it implemented to benefit athletic UF students and to help them meet new people and have a great time. From the feedback I received, I would want to move my app eventually to other college campuses to expand my business. 

2) I am offering an application to UF students to play pick up sports games across campus. The app would work on a day-to-day basis and serve to provide sports year-round since some intramural sports are only available during certain times of the year.

3) I am offering it to athletic UF students or anyone interested in playing pick-up sports on campus.

4) This solution will provide them with the ability to both have fun and meet new people. There are thousands of people who do not play a sport for UF but played sports in high school. This huge demographic will be very interested in this app, I believe.

5) This app is a relatively new idea and I have not heard of it in the past. It is essentially a social app for people to get together and play the sports they love. It promotes a healthy social and active lifestyle to help students meet each other and stay in shape.

I believe that the elements of my business idea fit well together. Essentially I have a large demographic, that can be found at the University of Florida, and in colleges across the country, and I have an idea to bring students together to have fun and be active. In addition the app will be free for students, giving them an even greater incentive to download and use the app. The revenue will be made through ads put on the application. 

"Feedback Memo"

The great majority of the feedback I received was positive. Everyone commenting thought it was a good idea to bring together people. Some good points were as follows. One, people thought it would be great to meet new people. Second, this app would allow people to be active and healthy. And third, they thought there was a great demographic for the app. Finally, one peer suggested to expand this to multiple universities, which is something I added to my second idea napkin. Most of my napkin was the same but I added that I would expand this idea to other areas since there is such an evident demographic.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Austin,
    I really like your idea. It definitely meets a need for me, I often find myself making Facebook posts to accomplish the same sort of thing, but it rarely works as well as I would hope, and I always get people responding a day later "I wish I would have seen this" or something to that effect.
    Also, as far as demographic is concerned, I believe this could certainly be expanded, and not just to other colleges. I believe this could attract a decent user base in almost any densely populated area.
    Thanks for sharing! Here is a link to my own idea napkin:
    http://ablog4c.blogspot.com/2016/03/idea-napkin-no-2.html

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  2. Austin,

    I think this is not only an creative but actually promotes physical healthiness. I would even go a step further to say you can expand this idea outside of universities to neighborhoods. Imagine if you had people in your neighborhood that wanted to form gatherings for sporting events such as these? I appreciate that your idea supports healthy social activity. Best of luck!

    If you're interested, I always appreciate feedback
    http://jamiecgarcia.blogspot.com/2016/03/idea-napkin-no-2.html

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  3. Austin,

    Your idea is something that could be a huge hit among college campuses. By having the opportunity to find individuals around your area that want to play sports it thus promotes a healthy lifestyle. As someone who likes to play sports I find this a great idea because sometimes it can be rather difficult to find enough people to play a pick up game. Here is my blog if you ever have time: http://pljordan1994.blogspot.com/2016/03/idea-napkin-2-week-9.html

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  4. Austin,
    This is a really great idea! I honestly wish that this were a real thing right now. I have never heard of, nor thought of anything like this, so well done! I think that UF is a great place to start this and college campuses are the perfect places to target. It seems like you have a great understanding of your product, as well as a vision of where you want it to go. Feel free to check out my blog at: http://uffarmer.blogspot.com/2016/03/idea-napkin-no-2.html

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