2) What are you offering to customers? I would be offering a mobile platform, one which could be used as a dating app, the other as a local jobs and services advertisement or wanted aspect. However, the vision started with just the dating app. What the vision is, it enables users to post a picture and a small paragraph or bullets of information they want to disclose for the other user who’s checking them out. The other person, let’s say a boy who likes a girl at a bar or club or even the library, looks for her in the app and see her photo, where she says (to keep dudes away) that she isn’t interested in boys. Then the boy looks for another girl nearby and doesn’t waste his shot with this one. This opportunity would solve the unwanted rejection 9 out of 10 women are going to give guys for whichever reason, before he gets to the one who is single and is interested. The original intent is to see the person first, then look them up in the app, learn more, then walk up to them, this is all in the heat of the moment, inside eye contact distances, which is unique. You’re not going to be looking at 300 profiles from your mom’s couch hoping one swipes left too, or getting cat fished by a photo-shopped image which you knew was too good to be true; you’re going to see the individual first, then decide whether you want to know more or not.
3) Who are you offering it to? Men and women ages 18-35 who go out to public places and seek having a good time and possibly meeting somebody new, for whatever their intent is, and people who don’t want to be approached, in this case gals and guys too same ages.
4) Why do they care? Here is why, guys get tired after a certain amount of rejections and need time to recuperate from their failures to keep going, liquid courage only does so much. Girls, sometimes they think a dude is cute, yet he doesn’t understand her signals, and it is rare for the chick to make a move first. Then there is the girl that is out with her friends and has a man at home and doesn’t want to be approached at all. Guys will pay because it will aid them tremendously on their hit-or-miss ratio. For example; I wouldn’t have even bought a drink if I knew the bartender had a boyfriend, even less tipped her 10 bucks... Girls will pay because it will help them the same way, also promote them making the first move (which they rarely do) if the dude is single and not gay. They also care because we have all had that one time where we decided not to do anything afraid of rejection and will always wonder “what if”, now we can diminish those “what if’s”.
5) What are your core competencies? Well, I think I can be persistent and driven, and I can use those traits to my advantage in many beneficiary ways. What sets me apart from everybody else is how I can embrace a stressful situation and laugh it out, or, find ways to self-diagnose and deescalate it.
These five elements are great. I need more knowledge in coding and the financial aspect of the current opportunity belief to be better prepared, and getting it going. Some things out of joint can be how sometimes I become my worst enemy, like being lazy and procrastinating.
I think the most important thing you mentioned was being able to control your emotions. Emotional investment is a necessity to believing and making any business opportunity come to life. Unfortunately though, this exact emotion can be what gets your business in trouble. You realize this and are aware enough that you can make rational decisions with both emotion in mind and under control. your reasons why people care are spot on and I still believe in this idea!
ReplyDeleteHi Luis,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you've got a great idea on your hand and you are very determined to make it happen. I think in any pursuit of an idea, the most important thing to have is a drive to want to make it happen and a belief that it will work and it seems like you have both. I think you just need to flesh out more of how it will differ from other dating apps. Will it be the simplicity of finding someone, or something else that sets it apart. Once you figure that out and exploit it, I think you have a great idea on your hands.