MID PITCH!- 14/04/2016

About being tamed & creating ties

Our Pitch was based on the story of the little prince; when the little prince meets the fox and he said to him that they don’t need each other because there are hundred thousand other little boys and a hundred thousand other foxes out there.

The same happens with our project partner Suunto, which day by day has to deal on how to approach its customers and be unique for them with all the surrounding media of other companies between.

In the story the little prince wants to be friends with a fox, but it refuses because it is not tamed. “What does that mean – tame?” the prince asks. “It is an act too often neglected”, said the fox “It means to establish ties.”  This is exactly what Suunto lacks – creating ties with their customers.

11/04/2016 - Building up the perfect pitch!

Pitch, pitch, pitch!

This time we focused completely on creating our pitch; we all had different and great ideas for it and we took the best of each to make one that we were all proud of.

And so we did; lets hope for the best this Thursday 14th for the Mid Pitch

So nervous - Chan chan chan chan!!!

08/04/2016- TIME IS COMING

WHAT, WHY, HOW? 

So, there is no deathline that doesn't get to an end; and ours is soon coming. Today we structured all the next steps that need to be followed; we are quite nervous because the mid pitch day is coming soon.

We decided that the best we could do for making an outstanding pitch was agreeing on the WHAT, WHY and HOW of our project and each of us would create an story around those, in 3 min.; after that we will take the best of each pitch to build up the final one.

02/04/2016 - 2nd JAM!

THE DEATHLINE IS COMING NEARER

Today the Demola team gave us great workshops again (a lot less boring than last time we have to say,  which is apparently normal).

Pitching seems now to be less dramatic than the first time, we are becoming pretty good on that.




However again frustration came through as we noticed that we are running out of time and that we don't have great advances yet; so we worked on our proposals and divide each, between the team memeber so we can show it as the first demo to our partners and receive feedback from them.

Let's see what happens in the next meeting...

01/04/2016 - Research results

NICE INSIGHTS

This time appeared to be a nice big step towards our demo; as we divided the research by different channels, we could all find really valuable insights that can lead to be great opportunities for our partner.



A lot of crazy and great ideas started to splash out in our team; and motivation seems to araise again; anyway we still don't have anything concrete but now seems that we are actually reaching something.


Ohad has become a great facilitator, he helped us to settle down some of our crazy ideas and focus them for being a realistic prototype/demo.

21/03/2016 - Research planning

TIME TO GET STARTED

As we have settled some death lines and needed to start building our prototype; we meet again and discussed about what were the first steps to accomplish it.
We decided to start making a little research on the market we will test our demo with.

By the way Suunto provided us nice devices (2 Ambit 3) to play with, Eevis who plays ultimate frisbee (she is the most sport active in the team) will test one of them to tell us her own cutomer perception about the product.

Sounds like a start point now.

17/03/2016- FIRST PLAYBOOK MEETING!

TRUST DEMOLA CYCLE

Our motivation seems to go worst than ever, we are getting really frustrated by the fact that we don't have anything concrete.

Ohad, our facilitator, has tried really hard to push us to think "Outside of the box"; but every time we try, our partner seems to be kind of dissapointed, it feels like if neither them know what exactly they want to accomplish with the project.

In this meeting we set some death lines and agreed on what are we going to deliver and when; maybe now our "prototipe" or whatever it should be, starts getting some shape...

10/03/2016 - Going down

KEEP CALM & CARRY ON

When everything seemed to be taking form; it just turned down again and we seem to be pretty lost of what our partner wants us to do; any of us knows what is gonna be next.
However we decided to take stress away and hang out together as a team, maybe some drinks will help us to build up some ideas!



Trying to keep self motivation around! 

02/03/2016 - S.O.S!

PROBLEM TREE

After all the confusion of our project, the hurry of how to build up the first Playbook, and our motivation going up and down; our Demola facilitator Ohad :), decided to give us a hand and calm down our stress.

We had a productive meeting that helped us to understand the causes and effects of our project; we all hope to be in the right way of the solution!

27/02/2016 - FIRST JAM!

FINDING OUT THE DIAMONDS & GETTING CRAZY ON PRODUCING AS PICASSO

Today was a really bussy and weary day; Demola team made us do a lot of workshops and dynamics to let us understand what the point of our project is.

We had to make the prototiping & pitch of our project and found out that we still don't know in concrete what are we supposed to do, enthusiasm goes up and down, but I'm pretty sure we are a great team and we will bring out the solution for our partner.

22/02/2016 - Second meeting

NOW WE DO KNOW WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT!

After a week of suffering from our results in the first meeting, and having no clear ideas of what was our project about (also being kind of afraid of disappointing our partner); we had our second meeting.

We all presented our ideas of what we tought the goal of the project was; and as the meeting was going on; and questions and answers started to loomp up; we could clarify better what our partner expected from the project, which were the needs and opportuny areas.

Finally we had a private meeting of how we were going to work on the solution and the next steps of the project.

16 - 19/ 02/ 2016 - Value creation workshops

WHAT ABOUT PITCHING?!

Some of the most interesting things about Demola, is that they have great workshops that help you develop necessary skills for the business world.

This is the case of "pitching or the elevator technique" - persuading people (hopefully investors) that you have a valuable idea in no more that 30 seconds (what the elevator takes to go up)- which is really useful when you need investment in your ideas.

This first attempt wasn't that bad, and we are really opthimistic and happy of our results, having into mind that at the end we are gonna be great pitchers!

15/02/2016 - Meeting the partner!

OUR FIRST MEETING - NO CLEARNESS AT ALL!!

After the introduction about Demola; we were all really excited of meeting our "client" (who we prefer to refer as a partner instead); feeling that after this first meeting everything will turn clear.

Neverthless our hopes turned grey after the meeting, as we all had really different ideas of what the project was all about; so we decided to present all our different points of view in the next meeting so that our partner could choose which project's inclination should we take.

We really hope to get more clearness in the next meeting! -  felt so confused u.u

09/02/2016 - The Kick off!

Getting started!

 "I felt really excited to get an email from Demola's team saying my application had been accepted!"

- Tania Ocampo




Today was the Kick off of the Demola project; we are all nervous but excited about this new challenge we are going to face.We could finally meet each of us as a team (look for our description in the blog); and even we don't know really our project, seems that we have in the team all the necessary skills to reach the goal!