In the IA right now our focus is business; however, this time we will be starting one of our own. We will be investing an amount of money to the business we create in order recuperate it back from the revenue we produce. In starting to do so we have to generate business ideas that we later have to pitch to the class. As I have never pitched anything before I was pretty inexperienced and nervous. My teacher presented his vision of a business for the class to start, it was an incredibly thought out idea. Corey present his pitch first, as an example for us to be inspired by and to generate new ideas from. His idea was to create a place on the FDR campus named Creative Coffee. It would be a mimic of Starbucks, but in school. The vision for his pitch was to create a place on campus where students, faculty, and parents could all go to relax and purchase snacks and beverages —mainly coffee. The idea he had sought through for the location of Creative Coffee would to be to buy an old used shipping container and use it as a pop-up store. After hearing his pitch I was shocked, but with a growth mindset I wasn’t going to let competition threaten me, I was gonna let it help me generate new ideas for my 5 minute pitch the following class. As soon as I got home that day, I was excited to start my pitch, I began researching examples of student led school business and pop-up stores. My information led me to what I decided to name “The Spot”. Catchy name right? Have you ever had an idea of a dream business, or a dream place you see can happen at your school? One of those ideas that you just can't wait to share and see what people think? Well let me pitch you mine, similarly to when I had to pitch it to my entire class. However, first I am going to paint you a canvas-- a little scenario in which you go to a school where recently it has become all healthy. By this I mean that no more sodas are sold, no more candy, and no more junk food. Slowly the school food system is being over run by a horrendously evil monopoly named Charlotte, mwahaha! Where the food and the beverages just become endlessly repetitive and your desperate for a hero to your daily meals at school. Therefore, I present to you The SPoT. A new hero in town for your daily scholarly meals. Imagine your out and about at school with your friends and one of them asks, " Hey Stefan where do you want to go?" All you have to respond is, "Let's go to The SPOT!" Now what is the spot? Well I would be delighted to inform you. It is essentially a space on campus where students, faculty, and parents can come relax and purchase some delightfully seasonal beverages. However, the year-round golden beverage would be the all natural and healthy smoothie. And where would this smoothie stand be located? Hold up right there speedy Gonzalez, after numerous amounts of research I found out three important places where you might find a pop-up stores. Below are some intriguing pop-store examples--> Narrowing my research I came down to three possible setting for possible places where the spot could be held. 1) Vacant space in malls or other commercial storefronts. This gave me the idea of: what if the spot could be in an unused classroom on campus which the IA could remodel and use for THE SPOT? This might be something interesting to investigate and talk to the school board about.
When starting the spot every IA member would have to break up in to teams/roles. These roles vary through out the project. These are the roles--> Ending with three key components do you find this pitch: Desirable? Feasible? Viable?
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8/25/2014 09:09:16 am
Stefan!!! Again, I'm impressed by the improvement you've made regarding your writing since the first time you stepped on the IA. You did a great job describing what you did, and nice job when engaging your audience with a story. However, I still believe that you are missing reflection. Try to be more concise when you explain what you did, and take time reflecting on your learning and the most important takeaways from your experience.
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Corey Topf
8/27/2014 01:39:56 am
Stefan! I love the detail here and the pictures. Just be careful not to include too many. Might be best to just choose the most relevant. Here's some more feedback as well: https://diigo.com/024fk3
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