Week 13 - Entrepreneurial Journey

I am very happy I took this course because it served as a great introduction to "how to start a company". I loved learning about patents, how to patent, and what is worth patenting, about how to create business models, how to conduct market research, how to incorporate, amongst other aspects of starting a company. Although it was a bit crammed in terms of information, because since everything was new to me, it takes longer for me to register the new information than maybe it does for someone who is already a business major.

Week 12 - The End is Near.

The Journey is near its end, am I ready?

This questions truly depends on what being ready means. Am I ready if I feel confident about the courses material and am ready to present my pitch? Or am I ready only if I would present this pitch to real investors and not as an exercise for a class?

Week 11 - What keeps me up at night

What keeps me up at night: At this point the only thing that worries me about our project is the slow start and unresponsiveness we've had with interviews. Our customers are big corporations that probably don't give a lot of attention to small school research groups just looking for some answers. If my team, or members of my team had more credibility behind us then I believe we would potentially get more of a response, but as of now we have been out of luck. 

In truth our patent inventor did conduct interviews and research on what problems existed in the orthopedic world, and came up with her research, invention and patent to solve them. But I am now in back-and-forth communication with our inventor to figure out how to talk to the manufacturing companies, who are our first customers.

Veture Dojo Feedback:

As of now I just have one comment, and it is based on the UI. When I am on the course's page watching the videos, sometimes when I click on one of the course blocks the left side (the rectangle that says the course section, the course title, how long it is, and a check mark whether I watched it or not) sometimes when I click on it it take me to the video, and sometimes I have to click on the title itself as oppose to the entire block, and that feels inconsistent. 

Week 10 - Patent Claims

The patent I will talk about here is the Quantitative tool using impedance spectroscopy to monitor fracture healing.

Claim 1 describes the electrical system which monitors the bone. It is composed of two electrodes, with an electrical connection, a variable frequency power supply, and a circuit. With these tools, it calculates the complex spectrum. 

Claims 2 through 9 indicate different aspects of claim 1, giving more specifics.

Claim 10 specifies how to indicate the degree of the healing process. BY using alternating electrical signals, between two sets of impedance spectrum, and comparing them. Claim 11-18 describe this into more detail.