Prototype and testing
- 2. Rohit (fictitious name), an engineering student want to do a startup and help the poor. But the funding authorities are not showing much interest. He has to overcome this issue.
- 3. Testing on solution 1 -Ask the poor people to unite up for their benefit. Collection of small money from everyone for the community benefit. I discussed the ideas of the solution and tried it with the people around. We reached to some of little educated people and tried to explain them the situation. A small committee was set with the help of participating people.
- 4. These people will be taking care of the regular collection of money and will take care of the accounts. We thought, since the fund raiser will be from their own community, it will be beneficial for them. A collection box was kept at the cross roads around so that people could drop in the money as and when they feel. A campaign was started to go around every house and make them aware.
- 5. This idea was a complete failure due to the following reasons. People were feeling unsecure to deposited money even with their peers as they thought it was an unsecure way. Orthodox thinking of people was quite a hurdle. They were not much interested in engineering changes. People were not showing much interest in sharing the same product. They wanted on each for themselves.
- 6. The collection box was found missing the very next day. Even, many of them were not in a position to donate even a single buck.
- 7. A legal bank establishment is required if a secure way of money deposition is required. We require more people to help us as three of us were quite insufficient to reach the masses. A rigorous awareness campaign is required to raise the people mentality and psychology. Proper collection units, with security services is required
- 8. Testing on Solution 2- Seek emergency assistance. Like, be a part of red cross society. Earn money, do the startup. As my friend and I were a member of the national red cross society, we volunteered few of the ongoing program. We went around the city for blood collection camps. In all, we volunteered at two places in the city.
- 9. The job required collecting people from the city, taking the collected plasma to the blood banks. We also helped a person who met an accident to reach the hospital.
- 10. Although these jobs were quite appreciated by the people around, but the collection was quite small in this. The collection was quite insufficient to do the startup.
- 11. Since these services are made for volunteering help, not much profit is associated with this. The poor can themselves associate with such society and work of a single day in the week so that the collected money can be used for their help. The best suggestion is, drop down this plan and look for some other idea.