Opportunity Belief

1. Being a driver on my college campus, the process of finding parking spots is always troublesome for me. That is where my opportunity stems from. I believe there is an opportunity for the process of finding parking spots on college campus easier. The opportunity I thought of is creating an app that register all the parking spots on campus. Students that parked in spot would go on the app and mark it as taken, and mark it as empty as they leave. This would speed up the process of students finding open spots.
2. -The unmet need is people being able to find a parking spot fast and easy and be able to move on with their day without wasting time.
    -The people who have this need are typically students who drive while in college and are in rush to get to a certain location.
    -This need stems from the limited amount of parking spots on school campus as well as the abundance of people that drives in college.
    -Some things that people are doing to meet this need now are to park outside of campus and walk to their destination, or simply to not drive and take the public transportation.
    -I am 75% sure that this problem exists.
3. The prototypical customer is someone who usually struggles with finding a parking spot on campus.
4. -Iteration #1: This individual does have this need. He started to realize this need exist when they started school and was driving to class. He have this need sometimes when he is driving to class during peak time. They have yet to find a feasible solution that works all the time to their need.
    -Iteration #2: This individual does not have this need. She walks to class or takes public transportation.
    -Iteration #3: This individual does have this need. She realized this need when she was considering about bring her car up to campus. The solution she found for this need was to lease a scooter instead, as there are more spaces for scooters than cars on campus.
5. After interviewing people about my opportunity, I realized that I had overestimated how popular this need was. There are a lot of ways that people do to satisfies the need, such as walking and taking the bus. I believe my original believe is still viable, but should take into consideration the other factors such as the different methods of avoiding this problem. I think it's important for entrepreneurs to adjust and amend their ideas and beliefs based on feedbacks. After all, they are catering their products and services to costumers and their opinions should be evaluated.