Business Groups Are Set

I have decided to cut down the number of business groups to five.  This will allow for slightly larger groups and allow everyone to share the work load.

I apologize to Ming but this means the business presentation company will not be developed this semester.

I came up with these groups on Saturday and I have made only slight refinements since then.

Traditional Art Cafe - Steph, Wene, Kel & Velvet

Motion Interiors - Chery, Dorcas, Daniel & Sum

Moneybrush - Jason, Shirley & Ming

Eco Bags - Phoebe, Peggy, Ruby & Meng

Photo Books - Alan, Vicky, Dolly & Nelson

I believe these groups should work and know that you will all do your best to make them work.  I will be checking with you about your group dynamics over the course of the semester.

We will start working in these groups today as we start solidifying and building the five business ideas.

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Group Choices - 18 February 2010

After very few responses on group choices there has been an increase.  Please send me your choices as quickly as possible.  I will make the group assignments on Saturday and post them to the blog.  If I do not have your choices then you will have no say in the process that will occur as a combination of your preferences, random assignment and strong group creation.

The groups will begin developing their businesses on Monday as we talk about goals, objectives and mission statements.  You will be working in your groups with each of the subject areas as we move toward the final presentation of the business plan on the last day of class.

I will also be making comments on your mock-ups and CVs in the next couple of days so keep an eye on your blog for comments.

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Group Preferences

  The group leaders for the development of the full-blown business plans will be:

     Wene & Steph - Traditional Chinese Food Art Cafe
     Phoebe - Custom Eco Bags
     Ming - Presentation Design Services
     Jason - MoneyBrush (bringing together designers and people with money)
     Chery - Living Interiors through animated environments
     Alan - Custom Photobooks - personal, high quality, retouching, design

All of the group leaders will add two members to their development team.  That means Team One will have four members and all of the rest will have three.

Team Leaders please send me three choices for team members in order of preference.

Team Members please send me three choices for teams in order of preference.

Overall the basic work was good and I look forward to interesting presentations at the end of the semester.

Blog Links and Subscriptions

Here is my ability to judge the current state of subscriptions to this blog and the links to various pieces of information that need to be online:

1 Kel CHAN Pui On - can't link to blog from subscriber list

2 Phoebe CHENG Sin Yu  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

3 Wene CHOW Wing Yee - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

4 Vicky KWONG Yuen Kwan - blog and links available and I have downloaded the Zip within the allowed 7 days

5 Stephanie LAI Ka Ying - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

6 Peggy LAM Pui Yee  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

7 Ruby LEE Sok Man  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups.

8 Dolly LEE Tsz Kwan  - blog available and links to single image Mock-up.  No link to a CV.

9 Nelson LI Kwun Ho  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-up, but there is no visualization of the interactive idea just a statement

10 Velvet LI Yeyun - link to blog and materials

11 Chery LIU Sze Wai  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups.

12 Daniel MENG Ye - link to blog but no links to CV or Mock-ups

13 Dorcas WONG Dorcas  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

14 Meng XIE Meng - no subscription and therefore no link

15 Shirley YAU Ching Yi - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

16 Ming YEUNG Ming To  - blog available and links to CV and Mock-ups

17 Beril YIM Yuen Sum- can't link to blog from subscriber list

18 Alan YIP Ho Lun - link to blog but currently no content

19 Jason SHIFTER - link to blog but last entry was last year...so no links to CV or portfolio Mock-up

I will be making comments on your ideas and executions over the next two weeks so please provide working links and content where required.

Business Idea Presentations

Everyone will  have about 7 minutes to present their business idea.


Here is the presentation order:

1:45 Shirley YAU Ching Yi

1:52 Wene CHOW Wing Yee

1:59 Chery LIU Sze Wai

2:06 Dolly LEE Tsz Kwan

2:13 Dorcas WONG Dorcas

2:20 Daniel MENG Ye

2:27 Vicky KWONG Yuen Kwan

2:33 Velvet LI Yeyun

2:40 Peggy LAM Pui Yee

2:47 Ruby LEE Sok Man

2:54 Stephanie LAI Ka Ying

3:01 Beril YIM Yuen Sum

3:08 Phoebe CHENG Sin Yu

3:15 Ming YEUNG Ming To

3:22 Kel CHAN Pui On

3:29 Jason SHIFTER

3:36 Alan YIP Ho Lun

3:43 Nelson LI Kwun Ho

3:50 Meng XIE Meng

Each business idea will be scored by all of the students in the class.  When the presentations are complete I will tell you about any I am aware of that were not presented.  Students will then give me their scores and I will add them up to determine which of the ideas will be further developed over the rest of the semester and who will be the team leaders for the rest of the semester.  

From the 19 presented 6 will be developed further within 5 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4.  

Good luck and remember that today's presentation needs to tell us:

1 The Basic Business Idea

2 The Core Product, Service or Experience

3 The Potential Market

4 The Existing Competition (a brief overview)

5 The Reason you are the right person to further develop this idea

You need to get this all said within about 5 minutes and then leave a little bit of time for questions.

Good luck and do well!

1 February 2010 and Freelance Opportunity

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Tommy Li Studio and thanks to Tommy for taking the time with us.  I am sorry for anyone who was not able to make the visit.  Tommy provided valuable insights into the business of design and the design business.  Perhaps they were not what everyone wanted to hear but there is value in what he had to say.

I would love for you to blog on the experience.  Talk about what you learned and what you took away from the experience.  That will count toward your final count of entries for the semester.

Also, if you want to have information on the Freelance job contact(s) I told you about please send me an email.  I don't think it is a good idea to broadcast the information.  I need to know who is genuinely interested in freelance opportunities.

Finally, remember next week is your basic business presentation.  Think about your idea and about how you are going to communicate it in less than 6 minutes.

Until then...