1. You. I am studying computer engineering right now. I have experience working on several programming teams and have started my own programming oriented club. Implementing this concept would probably take a considerable amount of time considering the number of devices it would need to support. After getting it working I would need to focus on popularizing it on different college campuses and other areas with poor wifi.
2. What are you offering to customers? I would be offering a free wireless network for anyone to use without restrictions.
3. Who are you offering it to? The primary demographic would be UF students who are frustrated with the wireless network available. However, the technology could be implemented anywhere were people don't have access to an unrestricted wireless network.
4. Why do they care? Customers would want to use this service because they are frustrated with existing networks not allowing certain programs or websites. Or because they don't have access to a wireless network.
5. What are your competencies? Some of the software would be hard to develop so that would add a time barrier for other companies to come in. The other way would be to popularize the network as much as possible, and use brand recognition to keep out competitors.
I feel that these elements could work together. Though having more experience with network programming and more barriers to entry for possible competition.
Matthew I like your idea. I find WiFi a huge reason why college kids get frustrated while being on campus. We are want to look up information as quickly as possible and when we cannot do it we get frustrated. I really hope you can achieve this, as well as make some money through possible advertisements (Facebook seems to be doing very well right now). Please check out my blog here when you get the chance: http://soulstosteal.blogspot.com/2016/02/idea-napkin-no-1.html. Great post, and great idea. -Chris Wood
ReplyDeleteWow it sounds like you are very dedicated and motivated to your opportunity! The idea of having a free wireless network that is available to all would be really good and I can tell you have put a lot of thought and effort in it. Your idea and my idea are really similar in that we thought “outside of the box” for our opportunities. In all, great job and I really think your dedication to this will propel it to something more than just an idea! Feel free to check out my blog!
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Matthew,
ReplyDeleteFirst, I love your blog name!
Secondly, I love free products and as one of the frustrated UF students you've described, I've found the WiFi networks on campus to be a bit annoying to use. This sounds very time consuming. I think it's rather honorable that you'd go to such great lengths to offer something like that for free. Security might be an issue though if there are no real restrictions on access, wouldn't it? I'm not a computer engineer so I couldn't really say!
Here's a link to my "napkin": http://jessgervais.blogspot.com/2016/02/idea-napkin-no-1.html