1) You
I’m Lauren Lytle, a sophomore at the University of Florida, majoring in English with a minor in Innovation. My talents are I’m creative in writing and coming up with ideas, I am visual with art and in my writing, and I am good at soccer. My skills and experience are I’m great with kids, as a counselor assistant I’ve always connected with kids and related to them. Also while working at an adoption center, I’ve found I connect with animals. If I were to start this business I would see it more as something I value, more than money, helping people who are unaware they need help.
2) What are you offering to customers?
I am offering an app for special education students that covers education and value. If these students aren’t fully involved in school work and have had there activities taken away from them during this time, this is an option at home.
3) Who are you offering it to?
It’d be offered to special education students, and would give comfort to their parents who might feel that their child isn’t getting all their education and activities. They all have in common a new style of educating special needs children.
4) Why do they care?
Customers will want this product if they feel their special needs child isn’t getting the same amount of schooling and is missing physical activities in online schooling. If they see their child distracted while in online school. If they notice their child becoming more distant ever since online schooling has started- do less school work, playing more games.
5) What are your core competencies?
This isn’t just any child’s education game, its made just for special needs children, fitting their behaviors and what they are learning. What I have that nobody else has is time and an opportunity, with this virus sending children to home schooling; this gives special education students more time to play and learn through the app, an opportunity with the block special education students have faced with online lessons.
I think almost everything fits together, but the only thing I’d have to push more on is making this app as original as possible, with other apps out there existing like this with educating special needs children. I feel like the other elements back each other up though, and make me more confident especially with what’s setting me apart from everyone else.
Fantastic job, Lauren!! The way your competencies and passions tie in perfectly with your business opportunity. I really enjoyed reading through this assignment because I got a further understanding about how you formed your business pursuit. I agree that the way to make this app successful is finding ways to make it original, and I think you are on the right track. Keep up the good work!!
ReplyDeleteHi Lauren,
ReplyDeleteIt seems that you are very well suited for this business model, given your extensive personal history caring for children. It seems that there is a clear need for such a product, although this is a very specialized need and will not necessarily apply to all children. Do you believe you could capitalize on this curriculum even once children return to live school? Potentially with a reduced curriculum that would supplement learning this would be possible.
Hey Lauren,
ReplyDeleteGreat job with your business idea. It seems like you have the experience being a counselor assistant that will help you with knowledge in the education of kids. You seem to have a very creative and caring nature, which goes hand in hand when dealing with special needs kids. I like how you thought about the differences in your audience and accounted for both the children and the parents' concerns.