Maria Pivaral-ENT3003

 The opportunity: Starting a company that runs different errands for people. For many people running errands is a time consuming activity that they have to fit into their busy work schedules. They  need an alternative that will allow them to get the errand done without taking a lot of time out of the day to errand running. The Who-What-Why Who: People that want to get an errand done but cannot What: They are not able to dedicate time to run errands  Why: They have too busy of a schedule to run errands Testing the Who-What-Why Testing the Who The target demographic is intended to be busy working people. The demographic could be extended to older people that do not drive anymore or to anyone that does not have time to or want to run errands. Testing the What Not everyone in the who will want to pay another person to ru the errand. Another boundary could include the fact that people would not pay for a service to run a sensitive errand like taking money out of a bank account...

Opportunities From Economic Trends Local Markets Close: Source: https://elperiodico.com.gt/inversion/2020/05/28/cierre-de-mercados-aumenta-demanda-y-sube-precios/ Why? As local markets close because people do not want to congregate in markets, many vendors can benefit. There is an opportunity here because the demand for the products sold at markets is still the same but people can't buy at the market anymore, vendors can find new methods of selling their products. Some have started selling directly to customers at higher prices, others have created delivery routes to sell their products.  Who? The costumer that would benefit from this opportunity would be all those who depended on markets to purchase different food products. Since markets are no longer open, they need a new way to purchase their product. Difficulty This opportunity is not too difficult to exploit. Many producers have started selling through alternative channels. It would not be too difficult because they could...

Article 1 : Trasladan a 20 pacientes con coronavirus al hospital de Antigua Guatemala ante colapso del San Juan de Dios https://www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/comunitario/trasladan-a-20-pacientes-con-coronavirus-al-hospital-de-antigua-guatemala-ante-colapso-del-san-juan-de-dios-breaking/ A description of the story: The article describe how one of the largest public hospital in Guatemala City ,  San Juan de Dios , collapsed due to the over-saturation of COVID-19 patients. Staff at the hospital commented that they received a higher number of COVI-19 cases than they expected, causing shortages in beds, staff and medical equipment to properly assist patients. due to the collapse of the hospital they had to send 20 patients to a hospital in Antigua Guatemala, a nearby city. The public health sector is looking for alternative solutions to accommodate the rising number of patients arriving at hospitals for treatment but are over-saturated.  A description of the problem  The ...

●       Belief: Due to the COVID-19 new problems due to restrictions implemented by the Guatemalan government many peoples' day-to-day lives have been altered significantly. One of the biggest restrictions being that senior citizens cannot leave their houses unless it is for a medical reason. This regulation has limited most of this group's activities like going to run errands. ●       Behind the belief: ○       What is the unmet need? Senior Citizens cannot leave their house to run their usual errands, like grocery shopping, going to the convenience store or other businesses. They have to rely on family members or many different delivery services that offer a limited selection. Those delivery services also take a long time and sometimes are so saturated that the service is not available for same day delivery. Most of the delivery services only have online ordering platforms that most senior citizens do not know ...

My entrepreneurship story started at the dinner table. From a young age my family and I would talk about ideas we had about what business or product we would like to start or create some day. When I was in like third grade, I remember telling my parents I wanted to have a candy shop someday and they told me that if I worked hard I could. When I went to a birthday party a few days later I collected a bunch of candies from the piñata and decided that I would sell them in the neighborhood. The next day when I came back from school, I made a poster that said "candy, 25 cents each" I put all the candy I collected into a jar and loaded it up in my wagon. I took my wagon and tried to sell to the people in the neighborhood. My biggest costumers, of course, were the kids playing at the neighborhood playground. My piñata days were limited so my candy business did not live forever but it was the beginning of my entrepreneurship ideas. The dinner table talks about what business we dream ...

The List: When people are not on time People might not arrive on time due to an unforeseen circumstance.  When people are rude Sometimes people are rude because they are having a bad day and do not realize that they are being rude. They also might be rude because nobody has called them out on it. My devices all have a different charger The devices might have different chargers because they are not all the same brand or they might need different adapters for the amount of energy they need. Getting from Gainesville to home or home to Gainesville is a long trip and expensive Home is Guatemala which is not exactly near Gainesville, there is no direct flight to Orlando (the nearest airport) so I have to buy connecting flights which is an added expense and more travel time.   When people are bullies at work Sometime people are bullies at work because they are insecure about their work or think it's their only way to get ahead of someone. People that are h...

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