In my third round of interviews, I was generally asking
everyone what their reaction was to my overall business idea. I wanted a
genuine reaction from students who live in a college town and ride scooters. I
spoke with five students who are currently taking classes and living in the
Gainesville college town area. After I gave the interviewee a paper that had a
brief description of my business concept, I simply asked him or her what his or
her reaction was. I ensure that these were people who would give me an honest opinion,
and they were all people who had never heard of my concept before.
Overall, I
think that people were mostly supportive of the idea. One person in particular
that I interviewed doubted that offering a customizable helmet would
incentivize people to purchase one. He remarked that the biggest issue is the
size of the helmet, and the fact that no one wants to wear a helmet or carry it
around. This made me question whether or not there was something that I could do
in order to address this issue, but for the most part students were supportive
of my idea. Almost everyone agreed that it was a good idea, and that it would
really make a difference to people who should be wearing a helmet. These
interviews did make me think about whether or not I could figure out a way to
make the helmets smaller or allow them to come with a clip mechanism that can
secure it to the scooter when students go to class. Other than this
reconsideration, I am mostly still confident with my business concept. I really
appreciated the feedback from everyone who agreed to let me interview them.
After watching your interviews, I think that most of them did support your idea. I think that you would definitely have to consider the size and a way to make it easier to carry or secure it to the scooter, like you said. I think that it is a great idea and that you have a pretty large pool of customers since a lot of UF students use scooters. If you want to see how my third round of interviews went, here is the link:
I think your business idea is good but if you really want to make it grow I would start to ask more specific questions. I think it would be wise to ask them what they think is bad about the product and work on improving that as well as asking what parts of the product are really amazing and stand out. That way you can cover your weaknesses and really emphasize the strengths of the product. Here’s a link to my blog if you want to check it out. http://nkent3003.blogspot.com/2016/02/customer-interviews-no-3.html
Hey Wallace,
ReplyDeleteAfter watching your interviews, I think that most of them did support your idea. I think that you would definitely have to consider the size and a way to make it easier to carry or secure it to the scooter, like you said. I think that it is a great idea and that you have a pretty large pool of customers since a lot of UF students use scooters. If you want to see how my third round of interviews went, here is the link:
http://andreacdona.blogspot.com/2016/02/customer-interviews-no-3.html
I think your business idea is good but if you really want to make it grow I would start to ask more specific questions. I think it would be wise to ask them what they think is bad about the product and work on improving that as well as asking what parts of the product are really amazing and stand out. That way you can cover your weaknesses and really emphasize the strengths of the product. Here’s a link to my blog if you want to check it out.
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