Better World Project

Part 1 Absorb

You will do a project-based assignment.
Read the assignment HERE

In summation, you will go through the entrepreneurial process. You will pick a group of people you want to help or issue/problem/need you think deserves to be solved; you will learn as much as you can about this and then ideate a solution. That solution will be either a nonprofit or for profit entity. You will figure out what resources you would need to move forward with this solution and then pull together your idea in a website to validate it and share your idea. This is called a minimum viable product or MVP.

It is important to keep in mind that we will work on this weekly and together, it is essential that you follow along with the curriculum provided in order to see this to completion successfully.

BUS 130 Semester Project - Make a Better World

Any questions along the way - BIG or small - should be asked in the discussion board.

Part 2 Do

We will use a modified design thinking as our framework for this project. To get started:

Read about the TOOLS you will use before starting the project so you are best prepared and know what is expected of you.
Read Research Preparation before getting started. Pay careful attention to how you should cite your sources for this project.
You will use this assignment step by step to keep you on track, asking the right questions and to organize your notes and summarize your thoughts. This will be turned in along with any citations and AI chats along the way.
Read about Customer Discovery - the act of talking to the customer or user to EMPATHIZE with their problem/issue/need to better understand how to solve it

Part 3 Do

Use a Business Model to help you understand the value your solution provides and how you would go about providing that value.

Read about the Business Model
Decide for yourself!

Are you a for-profit? Then use a Business Model Canvas
Are you a nonprofit? Then use a Mission Model Canvas
Are you a social enterprise and a mix of both? Then use a Business Model Canvas
Go here for a modified canvas model that will fit our purposes.
There are two sheets, one is the business model, one is the mission model.

Part 4 Do - Validate the Idea

After completing the Assignment/AI Worksheet, you will take your idea and move forward on it enough, to validate the idea itself. Depending on your idea, validation and next steps may include a prototype, a test, a pilot program, and/or launch.

For our class purposes, we will not launch, but instead test out the idea through a Minimum Viable Product - or MVP. Our validation of the idea and concept will be through a website. This will help you to figure out if your solution is viable and something that should be moved forward on.

You may want to take your MVP to the next level by trying to test through a launch or pilot for the Launch Project, in the second half of the semester. This is NOT required, but if interested, please talk with Professor Hargis.

We will validate / prototype / test our idea by doing a minimum viable product or MVP.

Our MVP will be a Google website. We will go over this in class. The video below is the same info from class for reference.

Couple hints for success:

Make sure you are in the Chrome Browser, this is a Google product and will streamline your experience. If you use other browser's, some elements may not work correctly
Watch the video and stop it after each new step
Open up another tab and do the step before coming back to the video to move forward
This is a recording from Spring 2022, if an element has changed and you can't figure out the updated version, please email the Professor ASAP with a description of the step