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 During these past few days, we gathered some data regarding about our product. Our product is called pixcel, I'ts an app wherein you can find artist or find clients if you're an artist. Gathering data is very simple because many people are interested in investing their money and skills in our product. We finally realize the true value of our product and that's when we come up with the results of people engagement and people who tested our product.

 During this week, I finally understand the importance of BMC. What is BMC by the way? The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management template used for developing new business models and documenting existing ones. Once we apply this strategy, I'm pretty sure that my team will have a proper vision or we can say that the result we want is possible with this strategy.

Failed, we didn't make it. Our pitching presentation didn't go well. We thought are ideas and data we're enough but it's not. Our Instructor encourage us to validate more the problem of our users both artists and clients. What is the specific problem they encounter when finding clients/artists online. How's their experience? Those are some words our instructor told us. It's always in my head because I'm always late at everything but I'm trying my best to catch up and solve problems. So next week, our team should prepare for the final pitching. Hoping that he will approve our app. As of the moment, we're getting ready for a meeting wherein we'll discuss about everything.

I can say for this week is that it's been tough dealing with our app because we can't get any valuable insights from our users. We already asked our friends and also other people what are problems do they encounter when finding artists online but their answers are way to complex and similar. During the meeting earlier, we're not able to present for our user validations because two people of our group member had to go somewhere. So me and my remaining mate decided to answer and ask our Instructor in order to gather information which would help us to update our validations. We don't have enough data as of now in the afternoon but in the later evening we will talk about our validations. UPDATE-- We gather some insights from our potential app clients and artists. We updated our first powerpoint presentation and added information containing the date for our upcoming midterm exam next week which is the pitching.

During this week our team decided to talk to each other hoping that we can add some features in our app so that it could generate more money in the future. We assure that our potential users would benefit the service of our app. We have two users, the artist and the client. The artists seeking for job which will be rendered based on the client request. In the other hand, the client can be able to look for professional artists in the app and message them. In the past weeks, we have 4 in total app proposals but now, were focusing in the PicXel app trying our best to apply anything that would address the problem of the clients.

 It's been 4 weeks since we started knowing ourselves and forming a team to build a sustained start-up. We thought we're ready for everything but our ideas were not enough. During this week, we presented our ideas to our Instructor, it's lacking a lot of points which drive us to gather more insights. During this week we attended the week 4 lecture which is about "How to Talk to Users and Validating your Ideas" Although we already but presented but being said by our instructor that we need to gather insights and validate our ideas to our potential users.

 Have you ever encountered a situation wherein you need to sacrifice something in order to come up with the absolute answer? And yes our team (Syntax) did that, we sacrificed 2 projects for 1 project. Many would ask why but there's only one answer "FOR THE BETTER". We disregard the "Give me task" and "Gaming Hub" project ideas. First of all, we find it hard to validate users and the rate of competency in the market would be high. So in exchange, we added the USTP HUB, it's a new project idea we came up. It's feature is very unique and beneficiary for students. The ff. is the idea we came up and might be good for USTP students to help them. Target Users: USTP STUDENTS During this online class, it's pretty hard or a bit confusing when browsing ustp sites which is separated from each other. >What if we can put it together in once place? Navigations(TABS AND ETC.) >PRISMS >HELPDESK >USTP COMMUNITY -Disccuss and Talk ...