Unit 1 LinkedIn Reflection

With the first unit in Business Incubator wrapped up, I have learned an extensive amount and have a lot of takeaways. It all started with the elevator pitch, to present your skills/knowledge to everyone else. In our pitches, I learned a valuable lesson that I need to slow down and take my time when I am presenting because it can be hard to understand. Another thing that I discovered from the elevator pitches was that when you are talking about yourself and your skill it is better to keep it simple and straight to the point, as it is easier to understand.

When we formed our team, which consisted of Joel, Grant, Jack, and myself. Each member of our team brought a unique skill to the table that could benefit us all collectively. Joel brings marketing, Grant brings communication, and Jack helps balance us out, while I bring engineering and design to our team. Joel and Grant both are on the same soccer/basketball team, while Jack and I are on the same hockey/lacrosse team, on top of being friends before this class, our team already had chemistry from day one.?

Once everything was set our team moved on to problem ideation, which is currently a work in progress. Our team has a lot of products/concepts that we could land on but none of them have stuck out enough for us to pursue the idea. Each team member is required to have at least five unique and different ideas for the next time that we meet with our mentor, Mr. Hanrahan, so then we can whittle those ideas down to hopefully find our product. The way that I found my five ideas took place on a daily basis as a problem/annoyance came up I would write down the product/concept that could fix that problem in the notes app on my phone.