Identifying Local Opportunities
1. Snoop Dog is playing in Daytona Beach
b. Snoop Dog will play in Daytona beach December 22, 2018. The tickets will cost 45$ and its at 10pm that Friday.
c. The problem in this context is that people will be hungry, thirsty and willing to spend a lot of money to find some great snacks and a couple of beers or red bulls at this concert.
d. The problem is based on the people who will attend the concert that will be quenching cocktails, beers, and snacks.
e. The opportunity would be to open a small stand with tasty snacks, beers, cocktails and sell them inside or outside of the concert at highly marked prices.
2. Hurricane Florence is hitting the South West Coast of North Carolina
a. https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180913/time-nearly-up-fierce-hurricane-florence-aims-at-southeast
b. The category 2 hurricane (today September 12, 2018) began to hit the south-west coast of North Carolina creating immersive swells with winds of 140 mph to 110 mph.
c. There will be flooding’s and a projected 10 million people will have “devastating sights”.
d. These people with the problem will be the locals who live in North Carolina as well as a business who function within the state of North Carolina.
e. The opportunity is to provide transport in a more efficient, cheaper way and offer hotel discounts at reduced prices in a safe zone where the citizens of NC can be safe.
3. FDA: E-Cigarette uses an ‘epidemic’ among teens
b. Health officials are concerned about the use of e-cigarettes, calling it an epidemic and ordering manufacturers to reverse the trend of ‘vaping’.
c. The problem is that the FDA going to close a multi-billion dollar industry of vaping e-cigarettes. FDA is in the process of wiping out these electronic cigarettes in anti-smoking initiatives.
d. The problem applies both to teens and young adults who smoke a lot, the FDA since they are fighting it, and to the Industry of electronic cigarettes.
4. Man accused of stealing, re-selling $5.4 million worth of postage stamps
a. https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180912/man-accused-of-stealing-reselling-54m-of-postage-stamps?start=2
b. A man re sold stamps in Jacksonville and sold $5.4 million dollars worth or fraud reselling postage stamps. He sold the stamps in another chain in New York totaling 3.6$ million dollars.
c. The problem presented in the story represents the lack of employee supervision caused this 64-year-old man to resell postages making millions of fraudulent money.
d. The opportunity is to sell this company a supervision based plan. Consisting of surveillance cameras and services of visualizing what your employees do.
5. Landslide at famed Greek ‘shipwreck’ beach injures 7
a. https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180913/landslide-at-famed-greek-shipwreck-beach-injures-7
b. A landslide in Zakynthos, Greece Thursday, September 13, 2018, injured 7 in an island causing major injuries.
c. The problem represented in this story is for tourists that experience these accidents caused by nature.
d. The opportunity is to sell travel insurance to people in Greece and Europe for a cheap, and affordable price that would cover these injuries.
I worked and volunteered for American Red Cross during many hurricanes. It truly is heartbreaking to watch individuals who are unable to evacuate. At one shelter that I managed there was a whole retirement tower that was forced to evacuate and many of them ended up on cots and using facilities with no power. Fortunately, we do now have shelters with generators for most of the building but it’s still a difficult place for most elderly to maneuver around. The problem I have found with your post, my post, and another classmate that I commented on, are the opportunities we found are not profitable so no one steps up to exploit them. Right after a disaster many people would donate, but in the years, we didn’t have many our funds would run dry. When the next disaster happened, we were scrounging to provide services with little funds. It’s a difficult operation to run that is needed, but before someone can do something, money has to come from somewhere.
ReplyDeleteYou're local opportunity about the Snoop Dogg playing in Daytona beach was very relatable. I always go to concerts and find myself overpaying for food because its the only thing available. I have noticed that people are always willing to overpay for regular food just because it is the most readily available; amusement parks and carnivals take advantage of this.
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