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So, this is the week we've been looking forward to. We will deliver our final pitch deck this week. We were struggling to make our final pitch deck because there was no pdf file sent to the slack, so we made our own ppt as an initial presentation, but in the afternoon, there was a file sent in the slack and it was the guide on what should be inside our final pitch deck, so even though it was a bit late, we still managed to make our presentation with the help of my teammates, which I could not do alone.

In our spare time, we created the final prototype that would be utilized in our presentation. It's a bit chaotic and difficult, but seeing the results made our efforts worthwhile.

We were worried when presenting our mobile software, PocketTips, a financial app, because it was our first face-to-face presentation in our subject and also our first pitch at USTP; nonetheless, we managed to control our sentiments. So, after the presentation, we were relieved since the panelists and our professor provided positive feedback on our ppt and prototype, which was a nice feeling.

After presenting our BMC, our professor left a positive impression on our presentation, so I assumed we did well. However, after presenting, I wondered what other channels could be useful in disseminating the information of our mobile app, and I came up with Google Play, which I believe is a good way of delivering apps to users.

BMC was essential because it provided us with a vision for the future of our product. Having the duty of creating the BMC, it was a fantastic instrument in identifying our business partners.

Following our presentation of our market size and competitive advantage, the following week we created our wireframe, in which we really visualize the parts of our mobile app with this we've come up with a design of our registration and log in page as well as our dashboard, so these parts are not the final design but will serve as our foundation in designing the app. While studying the app's design, I discovered that it is a bit dry, as it is not visually appealing and is not yet engaging.

Having the opportunity to create our games 6 and 7 last week, the market size and competitive advantage will be much easier to do because we've already established some fundamental information on what the market size and competitive advantage are all about. But we also completely examine the figures that we will use in our market size; moreover, because we already know what our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of our mobile app are, we carefully examined the features and ease of use of our competitors' apps. The game was quite useful in preparing for our major presentation.

After watching the video discussions, my groupmates and I began playing the games that were assigned to us. It was a privilege to be able to play the games because we got to think deeply and it was a great method to train our brains, as we all know having good mental health is really essential to us. With this, we begin by reading our game 6 about atomize, and the subject that we will be dissecting is market identification and size. After reading the game, we begin investigating various data that we will utilize in our market size. Knowing the potential market size and the initial total amount of money we might earn makes us all quite surprised, as if it were a lot of money, and we all giggle at the idea of what company can accomplish if all of the consumers buy it.

After such a lengthy vacation, or should I say after the wellness week, there is a lot of work to be done, not only on one subject, but also on the other subjects, as exams are fast approaching. With these many plenary sessions I've missed, I only grasped the statistics in the market size of our product that we are presently developing after viewing the recorded video discussions. Having thought about our market size and watching the business model canvas, I got a sense of what our business model canvas could look like. I also learned what the business model canvas is all about, which is a graphical representation of a company model that highlights all major strategic elements. In other words, it is a general, inclusive, and comprehensive picture of the company's operations, clients, income sources, and so on. And also, I get to identify and communicate the nine key elements of a business model: Customer Segments, Value Proposition, Channels, Customer Relationships, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, Revenue Streams, and Cost Structure.

This week is wellness week, so we have the opportunity to take care of our health not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually. I was unable to attend last week's meeting since I had an errand to run. So, I only asked my teammates on what have been discussed, and then I found out that the final output will be website, So I was a bit shocked and then I realized that we've been though web, so I was thinking that things will be a bit easy.

So I was expecting to apply everything I'd learnt in our web subjects lol. So, in terms of interviewing our consumers, we were unable to do so because everyone was in their hometown, so we decided to study web programming to make things easier. In terms of UI design, we used the monefy app as a guide to create the design and functionality of our website.

Everything is a little more relaxed after the midterm pitch deck because there is only one exam left, but having this kind of free time makes me nervous because the finals are so close. However, I made use of the time by learning necessary information's in building the app, so I was thinking of the product of what we could do so that it would be much more appealing to our customers not only with the UI, and in there I remembered to make a free trial to the app, just like the other apps they offer a 7days premium account.

With this, users could use the app much more conveniently as this offer many more features to try on. So, our team made a flowchart to ease our development of the app. Even though we've made a logo of our app I think we still need to redesign it just a bit though. It's finals now so we need to put extra effort into making our product as time flies so fast, like you could contemplate on the brevity of weeks.

Having the chance to interview others is a privilege as you get to know and learn from the life experiences, struggles, and problems in life that they want to be solve. Well in this week we just continued our interview, and from this we got to learn something new that is essential in building our product, with that being said our team decided to change the product we are making, from an e-learning app into a financial app.

This week all we did was to interview our target customers and users, with this we learned a lot on the pains that they are carrying, like the lack of knowledge about savings, family planning, technology that we are using nowadays and many more. Even though the number of our interviewees is still low we could not formulate a good solution, with this we still need to conduct more interviews to know more about the struggles and problems that they are facing from the past to the present.

A sequence of questions posed from one person to another in order to gather information is how I picture an interview. As I watch rather attended the plenary session of our subject, I’ve understood more on how to do an interview like what are the dos and don’ts in doing an interview.

I hadn't given this task much thought when it was initially handed to us. I believed that if we just asked a few questions, everything would fall into place and I would be done. However, this was untrue. I was genuinely shocked by the effort and consideration that we should do in our interview questions. There were a lot more considerations than just the questions you were asking since you also had to deal with individuals who were giving you their time, their attention, and their openness. As a result, you had a lot more duties than just what was initially required of you.

Since students have access to a wider range of educational resources on campus as opposed to off, I think face-to-face learning is superior to online learning. When dealing with instructors face-to-face, students may receive assistance and answers right away. Students who are taught in person also benefit from interactions with peers and professors.

By this time of this week, we are more on coming to school, like almost every day we go to school, and I appreciate this type of learning as noticed that I gain more knowledge, experience, socialization and fun compared to online classes. In this week of our technopreneurship subject we are more on to game 3, as we’ve shared our knowledge in performing game 3, I’ve noticed that there are way many things we’ve not known yet and there are too many ways we could help alleviate poverty. Thanks to the game we are more on to the in-depth understanding of our global goal.

Brainstorming encourages students to think critically about ideas and solutions, make connections, and exchange ideas with their classmates. The practice encourages students to explore more and enhance their critical and lateral thinking abilities. So, in our group we brainstormed in order for us to come up with an in-depth realization on why the Filipino people especially the poor ones are the most affected in times of crisis. In there we used the 5 whys and it really helped us to come up with the 5-root cause of the problem.

The fast and severe changes caused by the Covid 19 pandemic have significantly affected the patterns of life of people, families, organizations, and cultures all throughout the world. Situations triggered by this setting have serious implications and impacts on people's mental health. As months passed, I could say we survived the pandemic as everything is slowly going back to normal, like the economy is slowly recovering, the classes are held face-to-face, face mask now is only voluntary not a mandatory anymore but this is not applicable to crowded places. With the new school year beginning, I am actually excited as face-to-face classes are much more frequent though not every day still it is still a good indication that we are coping up. We get to experience what college really feels like or rather what the feeling of being a college student is.

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