#voterregistrationtechnology

This week’s focus was how to create the business model canvas to think through the concepts needed to be able to adequately plan for and pitch an idea for a product or service.  For our focus on improving voter registration with a secure digital solution, we broke our business model canvas into sections for each of us to do initial framework entries over the week.  We later met on Zoom to review each section, some of which sparked additional light-bulb moments that gave way to increased customer segments, additional revenue stream options by working with university, union, and corporate election boards, and ways to gain initial build capital via the 2018 Helping Americans Vote Act (HAVA) which provides grant funding to improve access and voting security.  We spoke about what we believed the various channels  would be for our voter registration technology and how we could get, keep, and grow our customer segments based on these channels (as well as what we would own and what we could use partners for indirect).  Finally, we rounded back to the value propositions section as a team to review the pain points of the most recent elections to confirm what our technology would solve.  Putting this information together on a single sheet allowed us to see how one section affects another and how each section interrelates (e.g. expanding in the customer segments may mean more revenue streams, key partnerships may reduce costs or provide partners for indirect channels, etc.).