Private Challenge Lab Blog

I'm taking the initiative to do our customer interviews, but since I can't do everything, I asked someone else to take up the job of contacting companies. My group members are taking care of the solar company interviews and creating our powerpoint presentations. I also made the value proposition canvas by myself. I made a homeowner survey that I sent to some friends and family and Niels is working on contacting construction companies to find out the viability of our product. We are gaining more customer insight after talking to friends who own homes. We still have a little more work to do in figuring out which demographic would most likely buy our product, but we should be getting that research done this week. We'll get everything figured out once we meet up this week and everyone is on the same page. Surveying customers is interesting because it really forces me to get out in the field and understand what exactly the problem I'm trying to solve is. I talked to my...

This week is really exciting because we finally spoke with the professors for both of our patents. Niels and Lei talked to the cyanobacteria biofuel production researcher ( Anastasios  Melis) , and he gave some valuable insight on potential commercialization opportunities. Melis talked about a potential biofuel consulting company idea in which we could offer consulting services to biofuel and cyanobacteria companies to give them advice on how to improve the efficiency of their biofuel production process. This seems viable because a lot of biofuel companies are struggling because the high cost of production. However, the people in my team are not qualified to provide these services so we would have to hire consultants. This seems like a small market, so it's not too exciting to me. The greywater reuse system seems like the project we are going to go with at this point. The professor we talked to talked to us about how we can actually implement the system in buildings, and it is ...