Knowing what’s your costumers need is a great help on your product if you will continue it, modify it, or change it because the costumers matters most. Survey or interview is one of the ways to know their opinion and as well as to gain information on the current product they are using which is considered as your competitor.

The FarmTorch company surveyed possible costumer and people which can help on to our product such as corn farmer and agricultural enterprises owners. The question we prepared is very relevant to our product if it is worth to continue. It is relevant to our company for we ask the advantages , disadvantages , benefits and problems on the competitors product that can guide us on where to improve our product and relevant of course to the farmers which problem can solve by our product.

As the interview goes by , we determined how leaf hoppers affect the crop and the yield , what is their current product used in order to kill leaf hopper , how much they are willing to pay just to solve the problem and etc. They said that leaf hopper really destroy their crops and affect the yields from 20 to 42 % . They also said that they are using pesticide from Aljay company and is not satisfy for it’s result because its just kill a portion of talakitik and is bad when inhale by the farmers. The cost of pesticide ranges from 800-1200 which is good for only one time used and is considered as expensive they added. They also find other product which concentrate to talakitik or leaf hopper but the pesticide or insecticide they saw is for all which is most of the product is not efficient interms of leaf hopper.

To sum it up, I see the result of the interview as bad for the competitors but not that really bad because it is effective yo other insect , and good for our product beacuse I see a large potential of our product to be bought by them for they are searching for the solution . They are also giving good feedback to our insect Light trap as it is cheaper for it can be used for a long time, it is good for them for it is chemical free and time and work efficient for them . They also want to be one of the first to used our product to test it’s efficiency. In addition to what they said, if the quality is good and the efficiency is high , they are willing to pay even it’s expensive because the losses is far expensive than the product. All in all, the survey gave us relevant information and gave us hope to continue with our product.

To be an entrepreneur is not an easy task because you can’t stand on your own . Choosing and creating your team is the first step in order to become a more successful entrepreneur . In creating our team, we make sure that everyone is a great contributor in our company and can fulfill each others weaknesses .

As our career which is an agricultural and biosystems engineering, we focused on Agricultural problems which can be solve through the application of technology . We then enumerate problems such as weather, climate change, unstable rainfall patterns and insect / pest . After a long discussion, we then choose to solve the most common problem in the field which is the manifestation of insect / pest . We then researched for the most restless crop destroyer in the field and turned out that it was the Leafhopper .

Manifestation of the insect are the most common problems of farmers . Wasted crops due to pest are unstoppable and can effect 35 to 43 percent of the total possible yield of the crops . Continuous used of insecticides can cause mutation of insect, can harm the environment, and can cause the insect to develop their immune system as time pass .

As a result, we came up with a techy way to elimate the leaf hoppers or also known as “talakitik” and that is an insect trap that will instantly kills the insect . Knowing that the leafhoppers and other insect are attracted to light, we then used light as a trap and soround it by wires which is connected to a battery that surely kills the Leafhopper causing it to stop reproducing . As a reflection to our product and what problem it can solve, we named our company Farmtorch and came up with a tagline ” keep the light on and protect crops from pest “.

As an entrepreneur, understanding the Lean start up is a big help especially for those who are just starting. Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable; this is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning. 

According to Eric Ries, “A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty “. It follows the Lean-Build-Measure process . Building a lean start up is about finding problem, validating that problem, and building a product that will solve the problem that’s why it answers the question ” should this product be built ? ” rather than a more traditional question which is ” can this product be built ? ”

When choosing a business idea to execute with the Lean Startup Methodology, it is important to consider whether or not the problem that your product will solve is important enough for customers to want to purchase it. Finding a business idea can be tricky, so it is important to pay attention to problems people are facing in everyday life. Customers must be actively searching for a solution to the problem in order for your product to gain traction and that is your responsibility to know or validate their needs . Continual testing and validation is built into the lean startup process in order to get the product into the customer’s hands as fast as possible while maximizing the business’s growth.

In the end, you’re continually validating, rebuilding or re-innovating your product, adding new specs and etc. to satisfy and answer the costumers needs which is constantly changing depending on arising problems.

Starting a company is hard work, and it’s even harder to turn the initial buzz around a product into long term success. Fortunately, entrepreneur Eric Ries has developed a systematic approach to launching new companies. Called the Lean Startup, the method emphasizes constant learning and scientific decision-making.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. Employees of more traditional businesses can still use the Lean Startup method to push their ideas forward and think more creatively about their work.Without strong management strategies to turn that vision into reality, a startup won’t be sustainable. Entrepreneurs need management strategies that allow them to test concepts and correct mistakes in real time, ensuring that their allegedly good ideas can become good products that people want and continue to want in the long time and into the future.

The key to the Lean Startup model is that you will make miscalculations and wrong assumptions. But using the Build-Measure-Learn mode, you’ll also learn how you can fix those. The goal isn’t to avoid mistakes: it’s to use each mistake as a data-gathering experiment and make sure you don’t repeat it.

The heart of the Lean Startup is the pursuit of simplicity. Introduce the simplest version of your product first. Get rid of any unnecessary components in your organization.

The Lean Startup isn’t just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business,
it’s about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually in everything we do. I do imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world’s great problems. It’s ultimately an answer to the question ‘How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn’t?

Knowing your strength and weaknesses as a person makes you know what work or a certain position is appropriate to you . It also helps you grind and over come your weakness for your betterment . It also helps you to choose a team or group that can fill in your weakness .

The result of my Berkeley Innovation Index (BII) survey which quantify my ability to innovate and measures my individual innovation mindset and innovation capability is 72.67 out of 100 which is above average .

My “Resilience” which is my skill and capacity robust under condition of enormous stress and change is above average. I have an above average in “Diversity” which is acknowledging the effort and understanding the feeling of others, “Belief” in my self which is my confidence on my capability especially on challenging task, “Perfection” which is considering what I have and maximizing what I have to create or used the most out of it .

I am also above average on when it comes to “Collaboration” which is craving new insight from my collaborators and thus able to pursuade others in engaging discussion, ” Comfort Zone ” which enable for me to easy abandon my old ideas and ways and develop it and turning to new ideas or ways on working, ” Innovation Zone ” which is I often communicate strategies with my team and organization while influencing them .

However, I have an average on trust because I do predict people or my group mates whenever they are committed or give extra effort and time to our project, product, or invention thus it takes time for me to give trust to other .

Over all, I know that there a lot of room for improvement as I start but continuing to believing in my self and pursuing to over come my weaknesses makes me a better person together with my group or team, we will be successful one day.

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• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
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Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

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