Комментарии к проектам V Business Project Competition
Сильные и слабые стороны проектов. Какие части Вашего проекта доработать, развить, усилить, изменить?
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Ethno Lab |
- Strengths
- Unique
- Broad range of clientele, appealing internationally
- Socially and politically relevant
- Weaknesses
- Niche market that may not have demand
- The idea of traditional dress for the everyday isn’t broadly accepted
- The research involved in created traditional costumes may be time-consuming and complicated
- Opportunities
- Could get discovered by movie or theater production companies with huge demand
- Could start a fashion trend among youths for high demand
- Multiple avenues (traditional costumes/everyday versions) could supplement the income for the other if one wasn’t doing as well
- Threats
- Overhead costs may be too expensive, driving costs up
- Production time is long, which limits scale
- Lack of research/design team could hurt product quality
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Granny’s Street |
- Strengths
- Educational in an area that is lacking
- Philanthropic
- Provides a service lacking in schools
- Weaknesses
- Logistics of the center are not developed
- Idea relies heavily on donations
- May not be a market for this
- Opportunities
- Could benefit children’s lives by giving them skills and knowledge of nutrition
- Could benefit the community and society by drawing attention to ecological and social issues
- May support itself by volunteers eventually
- Threats
- Could run out of money and be unable to keep operations going
- Lack of volunteers and donations
- Quality of food and recipes could be poor due to lack of resources and experts
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Green Berets |
- Strengths
- Solves a need by spreading positive PR for the industries
- Benefits the community by cleaning up the area, planting trees and spreading positive ideals for the environment
- Simple structure; only real cost is the T-shirts (which seems well thought-out) and marketing
- Weaknesses
- Benefit to large companies is not clear, and it may be difficult to get buy-in
- Much of the model is based on volunteers, which are not guaranteed
- Ideas may not be received well in the community, causing obstacles with community-based projects
- Opportunities
- Could expand to other areas where industry has affected the environment, making the company a sort of PR firm
- Could become very popular amongst young people, spreading on social media and becoming a phenomenon
- Could actually benefit the environment and make the area healthier and cleaner
- Threats
- Lack of marketing plan could lead to limited reach, stunting growth
- Lack of clear connection between the company and the good of the Green Berets could cause the industry partners to decline participation
- Lack of volunteers could be detrimental to the community projects, making the efforts ineffective
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Handy Farm |
- Strengths
- Convenient
- Modern
- Healthy
- Weaknesses
- Lack of design
- May be extremely difficult and expensive to ship
- If marketed for juicing, scale of garden would not support a regular juicer
- Opportunities
- Could start a trend and grow in popularity
- Could get picked up by commercial businesses
- Could improve health and quality of life for users
- Threats
- Not practical; wouldn’t produce enough food
- Plants may die quickly as this could attract inexperienced gardeners
- May be a fad that would lose interest quickly
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Here and There |
- Strengths
- Fun and interesting
- Overhead could be low without rent at a brick and mortar location
- Manageable occupancy
- Weaknesses
- Scale of kitchen would be limited on a bus
- Road conditions and traffic would affect customer experience
- Existing competition
- Opportunities
- Could go viral and become a tourist attraction
- Could get noticed by event companies and create consistent, full bookings
- Could expand to multiple buses
- Threats
- Logistics of a full kitchen in a bus may be prohibitive
- Conditions out of your control like traffic and road conditions could be detrimental to experience
- Bus routes may make it difficult for customers to find the bus or get off the bus when/where they want, making it inconvenient for individual parties
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Pre-Cook |
- Strengths
- Innovated and solves a problem
- Relevant/current/this is a market
- Production cost is low because there’s no physical product or storefront
- Weaknesses
- Requires buy-in from restaurants and logistics of getting the orders from the app to the wait staff
- Customers may find they can just as easily find a faster restaurant
- Menu/ingredient updates might be difficult to keep up with
- Opportunities
- Loyalty: this is solving a problem for restaurants by bringing in people who would not have gone out to lunch otherwise
- Could potentially spread to other cities
- Making it user-friendly for restaurants and cooking staff
- Threats
- Restaurants could see it as an annoyance and not buy in, especially if customers don’t arrive on time
- Food could take longer to prepare and make customers wait anyways
- May lose restaurants due to wasted food because this allows users to order without being there
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∑-litt |
- Strengths
- Solves an economic/social problem
- Mutually beneficial to teachers/students
- Very little overhead besides website and marketing
- Weaknesses
- No real service being offered besides a platform
- May not be specific enough to actually help students on tests
- May not attract enough users to pay lecturers, leading to a lack of teachers involved
- Opportunities
- Could grow to other countries
- Could attract well-known platforms like TedTalks
- Could benefit the school system and economic situation for teachers
- Threats
- Market demand may not be there
- Credibility may suffer and could be considered a Wikipedia
Revenue may not be enough from ads to pay teachers |
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