Sakib’s Reflective Essay

Design thinking is one of my favourite modules as this module gives a better experience. This module is more practical rather than theoretical. According to Jacobson (2008), it is hard to say if practical learning is better than theoretical learning, however, practical learning has a better effect and is remember by people longer. I had…

Final Dragons’ Den

This time, we were well prepared with our product ready. this was only the first stage though so there were a lot of comments regarding the flows of the products and packaging.  Meeting the final Dragons were not that easy. We had a bad experience with our previous products and with the new product we…

Funding!

Investment is required to run any businesses. these funds are either carried out by the founder of the company or in few other available ways. Funds are needed to develop the business further and make the product more innovative. Most of the time new businesses look for funding for R&D and to launch a new…

Branding

Branding is very important for any business as this is what make them stand out from everyone else. The brand has a huge power over its users. People use apple or prefer Coke over Pepsi is just because of the brand. To create a brand loyalty is not easy, it requires time and depend on the…

New Business Plan

This time, we did not waste much time to decide what we all want. Managing a big group is quite hard. It is hard to convince everyone to one idea but this time, we did change the plan and everyone agreed. We did not want to make to many changes thus we decided to keep our…

Fail Trade Fair

Yes, we failed really badly in the trade fair. No product and hardly managed to get any positive feedback for the INVISIBLE SOCKS!!! Although we did not have a product and hardly anything to show to people about our product, we participated. It was very awkward and shameful that we failed so badly and sitting there with an…

To be Continued…

The trade fair was getting nearer and nearer but we still don’t have any product. We knew what we wanted and our business plan was according to what we planned. However, we could not find any supplier yet and few of the group member did not agree to get it done outside the UK thus we…

Social Network

We all uses social media and we do socialise and sometimes we do make new connections which might sound bit creepy but yes we need networking even if it is for individual or for our business. Networking Events Networking can be done in many different ways. You can do face to face networking or through social…

Dragons’s Den

    The terrifying day was here. We were not prepared at all as we failed to get a supplier for our products and also there was not much to go on with. As we were really behind in terms of coming up with business idea we were one of those team who hardly have…

Snuggs

Invisible Thermal Socks After a long battle we have decided on our First product. Yes we were going to make an invisible socks! Not to worry you will be able to feel it, feel the warmth of the socks and it is not all the way invisible. It will be tucked under nicely when you wear…

Storytelling In Business

Tell Your Story Fist thing first, we were asked in the lecture when was the las time we laughed so much that it hurts. As always the lecture started with something fun. But this time it was very much related to the lecture. However, I failed to make up a story where I laughed so…

Never Giveup

Meet Up! Pub! Time was approaching to decide on the final business idea. However, it seems to be a tough one as we were asked to come up with someone which is currently not in the market. Time went by and we came up with silly ideas which we had to through away unfortunately. At first…