Entrpreneurial Mindset
uncc center for entrepreneurship and innovation
CEI helps students uncover ideas and discovery innovation. build and foster coolaborative entrepreneurial ecosystems across campus and beyond.
co-lab
thought leadership hear from experts within the program and connect with the charlotte business community
are you solving the right problems?
she wants you to get feedback from real users in order to know that your problems are real
proactive thinking, value creation, and real world application
curiosity + empathy = innovation
in an interview, “what is an entrepreneurial mindset” creativity resilience risk taking opportunity recognition critical thinking time management public speaking effective communication problem solving
problem customer market presenting opportunities
Second presentation
for weekly reflection second paragraph should be the last presentation in class
you guys were working on putting into practice some entrepreneurial thinking
think of what problem x company is solving and think about ways youd presonally address that. lets work on that for 25 minutes
if you are like me you like to jot down your ideas this is your ideation posterboard, you can jot down your app or something on here, problem → customer → market → presenting → opportunities
2 individuals from group to come to front to pitch to class if you are thinking game theory time i will pick people at random to come present
problem: courseriffic How many of you have struggled with registration for classes how many of you would say that registration with banner was a good experience seeing as you are all transfer students, can you raise your hand if your previous registration experience at your last university was also bad
Courseriffic is a all in on solution for registratoin for classes, aiming to get integrated deeply into as many universities as possible, via competitive pricing, and intuitive software.
degreeworks / banner sucks
cpcc’s system for this (mycollege) was also pretty rough
customer: Specific universities like UNCC which have lacking registration systems We would be offering software as a service to these universities for a per semester fee, including provided support.
market Universities specifically targetting those which are poorly reviewed for their registration systems, like uncc There is a total addressable market of EduTech is expected to grow to 52.19 billion by 2033, so there are opportunities for significant business growth in this sector, and the customers you do get will have a super high return rate, as they do not wish to confuse the student by constantly switching the registration systems, which would make this problem even worse.
rfid readers at scale for an amazon fresh type thing investment of 100k into converting stores to a rfid only amazon go style thing.
price of rfid tag per item for small cheap items