Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
Originally posted by: Qosis
Business contests call for innovation. I don't beleive venturing into one of the most saturated markets in existence would qualify.
Well it's the most saturated for a reason. It's where folks are spending their money. It is the most difficult market to innvoate in, but also the most potentially lucrative market to do so. To suggest that there is no room for innovation in the field of computers and technology is absurd.
The computer industry will not look anything like it does ten years from now. Five years ago nobody even heard of Google and Apple was about finished. I think the same will hold true ten years from now.
You are right, though. I could always enter The One Hit Wonder. Now that is innovative. One store, one product. I do not think it has ever been done. And it could work. And it would be fun. But it could never have the potential that an innovate computer company could have.
Apparently you don't know what a saturated market is.
You're right, of course. Although this is Humboldt, so the local market is not so saturated. And ultimately the goal of this particular contest is more to make a contribution to the local market and fill a local nitch, so much as it is to come up with a totally innovate idea.
If it were the latter this would be aimed straight at MBA students. This contest is unique in that it is open to all students, regardless of whether you are a business major. Heck not requiring that you hold a degree is really pretty unusual.
My talent is in marketing though, not computers, so I have two months to change my mind. It is really going to depend upon what other students can bring to the table. Maybe I have underestimated this school, but this contest came about so quickly and with so little warning that I think any idea presented properly will have a good chance of winning.
They want this to be local. And to be local in a small community frankly does not allow for a terribly innovative idea. There would be no market without leaving the area. Which above all is what they do not want to happen.
It still seems to me like there is such a gulf between the younger and older generation in computer know how. To have a company offering classes in basic computer knowledge (real basic stuff like basic internet searching, digital photograph manipulation, starting your own webpage) would be both easy to teach and would be of a lot of interest to older folks (who ultimately have the money to spend - especially in this town).
Continuing education is getting bigger and bigger. And the older you get, the less it matters whether or not you are getting a degree. Indeed I think it's the aprehension of having to be graded and put in a competitive environment that keeps a lot of older folks from going back to school.
To be schooled in a subject that you will use everday - I think retired baby boomers are going to go for that. And rich, curious, retired but active folks is one of the few things this town does not have a shortage of.