24A – Venture Concept No. 1

Part 1: the Opportunity

Arc 1: How did this idea come to me

Similarly to everyone my age, I grew up around technology. I spent all of my time growing up either play,interacting, or studying with the help of some form of technology. Where it was to use my PS2 to play video games or my computer to do homework. This constant stream of interaction lead me to fall in love with every piece of technology I touched growing from. Spending most of my time either figure out how it worked or tearing it apart to see what it looked like on the inside. The bountiful wealth of knowledge came with a hefty cost, as I was adversely known as the “tech kid” growing as everyone around me: friends, family, and sometimes coworkers would come up to me with their problems and that is when I realized many people barely know the basics yet technology is a literal essential part of everyone's lives yet when asked what to do when their phone start acting up many people freeze up and go ask for help even if the problem is as simple as restarting the device. The problem I have is not that I don’t want people going to get help when something stops working but I don’t people to be surprised/panicked when something fails, because when people are confused they do silly things which usually ends with them being scammed as they make an unnecessary purchase. I’ve been watching this process happen for years. This is why I wanted the create the site known as ‘Allpoint’ as I know there all millions of site that already do my idea but better. How I see things is that many people are too intimidated by the idea going on many of these sites because they feel that the nomenclature/lingo. I wanted to build a site that made people feel welcomed. Idea is that sites like Reddit have a pre established community with a poor stigma around the community and for many people this seems off putting. That’s why this is a big opportunity because if I can make a site that is as expedient as many mainstream sources yet more welcoming than those currently I feel I could make a site that does not only a lot of good but help introduce many into the age of technology that seems to allude so many people.




Part 2: Innovation

Arc 2: How will it all come to together

Throughout my time here in ENT3003 I have made my venture not only more concise but realistic as well as how to develop a road map for how I should make this a reality. The first step is to create the the concept and I how visualized “Allpoint” was it to be a two part forum and new site. There are several sketches all over my blog for those who are interested in getting a visualization but the idea is that the header of the site will be a scrolling live feed of the current popular new stories while the bottom section will be series of topic that will take user to various ‘schools’ of tech such as a section for Apple products which then prompt the user to search for which product they want specifically such Macs or iPhones. What I hope the most from this product is that it creates an ease of use for the user as it will be simple enough to find what product they are looking for while also having a search feature that will allow the users to easily find what they want.Predominantly, the biggest challenge is winning the metaphorically arms race that is getting to the information first and reporting on the news. This problem is based on the consumer base and currently the leader in this department is Twitter as many celebrity post status updates or pseudo-blog posts about updates. Many developers and companies use Twitter to communicate with fans and the community. What I would have to do to potentially surpass the current Twitter monarchy would be a way to provide incentives for the publishers and companies to openly communicate with users. This would give my site the one up on Twitter as many comments go unheard as companies post an update then ignore the topic unless they are absolutely forced to. But these are big future plans for right now I should be forcing on making a non-profit site that works towards en massing a sphere of influence. From there I would need to then gain sponsors and have sponsored users which will soon be the bulk of our profits. To get the site up and running I will need to start on the small scale such as only being hosted to the students here at the University of Florida then have it run by primary by volunteers. In short the best road to success is by first connecting the average user to their technology then connecting the user their products as they will be able to discuss and talk to with major corporation rather than faceless announcement bots.