DAY 8
Participants are practicing all day with Amin’s help. They pitch their projects for the first time, collecting helpful comments in order to improve their presentations.
The day ended on a lighter tone. We celebrated Sakshi's birthday and our last evening together.
Notes by Saroj
Dr. Mahabir Pun visited to listen the participant about their project presentation and gave Feedback:
Shashank: problem with his project is weather challenges (project: Honey Keeping)
Pragya (related to street dog): metropolitan city government might help on this problem,
Sajana: high potential ( home stay business)
Sakshi (women empowerment through Agri by product): marketing very importance for this kind of product, get help from women group and organizations working on this kind of project
Prachanda: talk to the city government, maintain existing public toilet
Kranti(organic product) : contact with cooperatives for the funding, middleman are the problem, develop your own model
Sabana (Are you Ready to Jump related to education): program has to be very creative and innovative, teach for Nepal like organizations are not competitors because they are working in different way, educate parents
Yosa (pluswitness waste management) : transportation cost might be problem
Amin: feedback to participant’s projects
Prachnda (public Toilet): need to get the no. of people, price and total revenue model of business, need to project total market size, how they can fund your business
Pragya (rescue dogs): don’t care about human(e.g. biker) and traffic, no mention of monetary damage, advertising still weird, think of lighter capital cost, data must go to the problem as well, cash the problem, mention revenue model, why in the business, organization of data
Sajana Badel (CHECKiNN Champak Namuna Home): organize the flow, put it on touristic map, arrange the service, see the program (see the activities, proper mapping of revenue model, how you are competing with the competitors,
Shashank (Honey Business in Nepal): traditional way, team with the flow chart (advisor, mentors, marketers etc if missing say about recruit)
Yosa (PlusWitness Waste Management): need to improve body language, show the picture if there is pain, one year revenue, cost and profit projection, flowchart of team, rupees wise value chain,
Kranti (organic farming): team is still missing, what does mean linking( e.g. customer to farmer) still not clear, cost projection is still missing, no specific about competitors, need to put market size in no., specific market selection, how you gonna spend the fund