On week number 9 we had a speed dating with four different mentors from different parts in the high-tech industry, let's talk about how they helped us to help them...
This week we had a speed dating with four different mentors mentoring. We presented our findings and the skeleton of the solution we want to create for each mentor.
Since every mentor comes from a different sight on life, each mentor had a different points of view about the idea. A nice fact to tell here is that all of the mentors are part of our target audience.
"I know what you're talking about..."
When we had the pitch we could see that each of them had a look on their face saying "I know what you are talking about. This is my life", moreover, they literally said it!
Omer
The first mentor, Omer, tried to understand more deeply the need we found.
As omer spoke to us more and more he tried to focus our need saying that the issue is not our target audience doesn't have time, they just prefer to spend it in a different places, such as Facebook, YouTube and more... Omer wanted us to keep our feet on the ground saying we can't state that we will solve their time management issue in order to help them reach higher levels of emotional well-being, this kind of statement is a bit arrogant.
Omer wanted us to understand how we can make our audience be committed to itself.
Omers main point said that we need to take this big need and solution and maybe focus it on something smaller, maybe provide a niche solution to a more specific audience.
Galit
When we finished our date with Omer, we spoke to Galit Galperin. Galit told us she sympathizes with our needs and thinks we touch in real pain. Galit, asked us the same thing Omer asked us, and wanted to know how we will make out target audience to brake their habbits. Moreover, Galit brought to our attention that a competition crates heigher user engagement, so we wanted to take this fact as a consideration in our product. Besides, Galit brought to our attention that we need to focus just on one theme such as hobbies, enrichment of knowledge, etc...
Joy Mentors
From Joy mentors that also loved our need, we set up a meeting to discuss more about our solution. They said they could help us with finding researches that were engaged with our idea.
To conclude, every mentor gave us diffract point view and we need to concentrate on our solutions and examine more apps that relative to this need.
Worth to mention that along with the process we are engaging more and more difficulties, we are more than sure that this is a normal part of the process and it proves us that we are very enthusiastic about the process and the development of the product.