Forming an Opportunity Belief

(The below is written from a company the I currently run)

• Currently there are no ways that schools can know what a student is doing on their personal devices. Either they outright ban the use of personal devices like phones or computer, or they allow the students to run rampant, and the students get nothing done in class because they get distracted.
• I feel that there is a need for a product that allows to teacher to digitally view what the students are doing on their personal devices comparative to a teacher looking over a students shoulder in class. 
• The customer for this product would be teachers, administrators and district boards who want to see a solution to this problem
• I talked with my mentor Quang Tran, and he feels that there is a definite way to capitalize on the need for a software as a service company (SAS) that could solve this problem. Many teachers that I had talked to prior, have experienced this problem and want to incorporate student's phones into class, but cannot trust the students to stay on task, and ultimately, don't allow the students to use their devices in class. As state above, there is no solution other than banning phones or letting the students run wild while using their devices with no limitations. 
• I feel that this is a definite problem that can be fixed with a team of dedicated individuals that believe in the solution to fix it.
• I had also talked to a close friend and trusted adviser James Gibson, who runs a company called Quotlly which is a startup that focuses on selling SAS to colleges. Even though this product targets K-12, he sees the need for a product but cautioned me to be careful with the monitoring of the students to not appear as Big Brother. 
• The most important information from our meeting was to be careful on our approach to monitoring the students because many parents care deeply about their child's security
• Another trusted friend and my high school science teacher, Mr. Dimuro, shared many of the same opinions as the other two people I had talked to. He has previously attempted to allow students to use their phones in class, but has come to the all too common ending: that students cannot be trusted on their devices without a system of checks.
• I believe that much of the original idea is still left, even though there are many revisions and changes done to the product. Below is my first blueprint sketch of my product that has launched, that I sketched in 2016. Every iteration and external input allows for new information and different perspectives to be brought into consideration. Many companies, especially startups evolve into entirely new services or products. However, with many examples, if companies do not evolve, they fall behind the rest of the competition. 

  

  Initial concept (2016)

  

  Published final website & SAS (2018)