1.) I am a student at the University of Florida who is currently living in one of the dorm buildings on campus. With my business idea involving the dormitories at the university that gives me personal experience that some other students at this school do not have. I know what it is like to live in these facilities and would like to do what I can to make it better for incoming students.
2.) I am offering to my potential customers better living arrangements. I want to start fundraisers to help with something small like new air conditioning units in one of the dormitories. By doing this I hope to help those residents, but also raise awareness and hopefully help the University of Florida realize that this is an issue that needs to be resolved.
3.) All of my potential customers will be University of Florida students living in dorms on campus. The majority of these students will be freshman and this will be their first year going to this school. They want and need a place where they will feel safe and secure because the first year of college is a huge transition for these students. The parents of these students will also want them to feel safe and comfortable in their new environment.
4.) Customers will care because these incoming students will be the ones living in these facilities for the next year of their life. These students and mostly their parents will want them to be as comfortable as possible and will be willing to donate to help renovate the dorms.
5.) My personal experience of living in these facilitates are what sets me apart from others who may want to help. The faculty who make the decisions about housing and renovations have probably never lived in one of these buildings in the last ten years and do not see what it it like and how it can be improved. Whereas, a student who has been living in these buildings does understand the need and concern for renovations.
I believe that these ideas all work together to create a plan to help incoming students and also the University of Florida. There are details of the plan that need to be worked out, but the overall plan is set to help meet this need. If this plan in put into place it should help both the students and the university and at the very least it will spread awareness of this issue. The goal is to implement these practices and help both parties.
Hi Madelyn! I love your ideas to start the different fundraisers to help living conditions within the dorms at the University. I thought you did a really good job using your current living situation and experiences to come up with an idea about how to solve that issue. It sounds to me that all of your ideas fit well together and would make for a good business.
ReplyDeleteHey Madelyn,
ReplyDeleteI think your overall idea is a great one. I like how your idea came from your experiences. That is really smart. Since you based your product on what you lived through you have a good base and throughout all of the interviews you can change and fix small aspects to help out a broader audience.
Hey Madelyn,
ReplyDeleteI like your idea, and I think that there is a great need for the dorms here at UF to be updated. A lot of the dorms here are really old and out dated, making them gross and uncomfortable. I know a lot of students that hate living in the dorms, and do not like the communal aspect of some of them. Although I think your idea satisfies an unmet need, I do not think that you have set it up as a business. You stated that you would need fundraising for this idea, so how would you make money from it?