Chad Girnun Principles of Entrepreneurship

Chad Girnun National Expansion:     One point that Professor Pryor brought up that I feel could lead to national expansion would be to promote the app at job fairs and within a strictly college demographic. There are strong reasons behind each of these points.             Promoting at job fairs provides for national growth for very obvious reasons. If you are promoting at a career fair at UF for Heavener business week for example, there is a multitude of companies from across the country. These moments would be the highest in density of companies from around the country. I believe that Gatherade won’t have as close in person contact with companies from all over the country as they will during these job fairs. Establishing a personal relationship for national companies will allow professional relationships to build so that even if a company doesn’t encourage Gatherade over say LinkedIn, it will still at some poi...

Chad Girnun Testing Hypothesis 2 Interview 1: In my first interview, I talked to a student who had all the correct assumed needs for the service. They had a busy schedule and the money to afford this service. Their one set back was that they claimed that their roommate had a lot more time and cleaned their roommate’s belongings for them. This confused me as normally roommates aren’t willing to clean every time after their other roommate. This affected they “why” part of why someone would use my service. This person rightfully shouldn’t rely on their roommate to clean after them, however, they still did. This confused me as to why someone would be so comfortable letting their friend do so much for them without anything in return. Additionally, allowing this to happen establishes a bad practice. For this reason, I felt this subject should’ve fit into the company idea, however, they didn’t for this odd reason. Interview 2: In this interview, I called the owner of a local cleaning...

https://youtu.be/7k34XY7b7U0 Link to youtube video of pitch.

Chad Girnun 8A Solving the Problem             The opportunity I am addressing is one that I have been persistent in talking about the entirety of this course. It is the fact that many students living in dorms don’t have the time or disposition to want to clean their own room. As a result, they would hire a room cleaner, but don’t have one at access.              My solution to this problem is a cleaning service. This service would consist of others living in the same dorm cleaning the rooms of others. There are people in dorms that have a need for their room to be cleaned and others in dorms that would be willing to spare 30 minutes a day in order to make some money in cleaning someone else’s room. The reason I think this offers such a strong solution is because it eliminates the transportation costs of other cleaning services. By eliminating the issue of transporting...