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The Journey in Entrepreneurial Mind : Political Science Edition

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The Final Pitching: Our OMNIHUB Innovation Takes Pride

After months of hard work, countless brainstorming, conducting several surveys, and more than a few late nights, the day finally arrived for us to pitch our innovative new service application “OMNIHUB '' to the panels. The atmosphere was electric as we took in commencing to pitch, presented a demo of the seamless user experience, and articulated our vision for creating a revolutionary platform to make people’s lives more convenient and open up new opportunities especially to the students. 

Moreover, there were certainly some nerves, months of preparation carried us through. We highlighted OMNIHUB’s unique ability to seamlessly connect users to local services, from transportation to grocery to dog walking and more remotely. I guess, the panel’s eyes lit up as they saw and witnessed just how great and intuitive the app made accessing these modern conveniences. When we revealed our expansive partner network of service, and assuming the presence of developers and partner providers, I believe they will be on board, and expecting that we could feel the rising excitement. 

As the pitch encapsulates, we feel the exploding applause coming from our adviser and the panel. Months of doubt, fatigue and challenges melted away in that moment of validation and promise for our startup’s future. Thus, there is still a long road ahead, pitching OMNIHUB was an incredible milestone and motivating start to our entrepreneurial journey. 

The Entrepreneurial Mind Lecture Series 2024

Credits: Mr. Reymark Menguito Facebook Post after the lecture series photo opt.

With the high pitch still fresh, we were fortunate to attend the Entrepreneurial Mind Lecture Series and gain invaluable insights about critical legal and business considerations for startup founders. The discussions around data privacy regulations, intellectual property protection and nurturing a healthy startup ecosystem were not only fascinating but immensely practical. 

One speaker’s cautionary tales about the risks of neglecting data privacy best practices clearly outlined the need to bake those considerations into our respective innovation’s infrastructure from day one. However, sometimes seen as a hindrance, we recognized robust data privacy as an opportunity to build user trust and position our brand as an advocate on valuing digital rights and freedoms. 

The intellectual property talks were another highlight, detailing strategies for safeguarding our core innovations while still encouraging productive partnerships and integrations within the broader ecosystem we aim to facilitate. It was a masterclass in walking the tightrope of protecting our interest while still boldly collaborating. 

Moreover, as we put the context to our innovation, while the OMNIHUB pitch was the dramatic crescendo, lectures like these represent the foundational learnings that will allow us to transform our plucky startup into an enduring, ethical and impactful enterprise. The insights gained will undoubtedly help steer us clear of many potential pitfalls. 

The Entrepreneurial Mind Experience: A Rewarding Whirlwind

The AB Political Science 3 in one frame with Sir Reymark Menguito.

Reflecting on the entire semester with “Entrepreneurial Mind” experience, it was truly a roller coaster in the best way possible. POwered by passion yet anchored in practicality and preparation, we weathered the inevitable storms of self-doubt, fatigue, and creative differences to bring “OMNIHUB” to this exciting inflection point. 

There were countless lows along the way - those nights where it felt like we never made a dent, or disagreements that threatened to derail everything. But each time we hit a roadblock, our resilience, openness to constructive feedback, and sheer belief in our vision pulled us through. We’ll carry the lessons of perseverance, resourcefulness, and teamwork with us forever. 

Of course, the highs were just as intense as the lows - those electrifying moments where everything clicked into place, or a conversation with a subject matter expert unlocked a powerful new idea we’d been stubbornly missing. Celebrating small wins with the team, whether a UI breakthrough or a new partnership commitment, recharged our momentum. 

Nevertheless, the future is unwritten, one thing is certain: we will always be visionary entrepreneurs at heart, capable of pouring out all into pursuing an ambitious idea and weathering any storm required to try and make an impact. OMNIHUB was the catalyst, but the Entrepreneurial MInd experience awakened something deeper- a mindset geared for constant evolution, lifelong learning and solving problems in unconventional ways. 

Moreover, this could not be possible without the ever-dynamic instructor of ours, Sir Reymark Menguito who made our journey in this course become extraordinary, through his expertise, motivation and passion to fuel our vehicles in entrepreneurship. I, myself, am beyond grateful for having Sir Reymark Menguito with us throughout the semester.

The abovementioned, the pitch, lecture series, and complete experience represented not just an academic exercise, but moreover the start of our entrepreneurial voyage. We have been equipped with tools, passion, memories and the hunger to continually innovate for a better world. After this rewarding whirlwind, we are eager to see what ambitious idea captures our “Entrepreneurial Mind” next. 

"Could have been me" a song of Halsey that pertains to someone or something that's holding oneself to be fearless, to do things scared and feel every emotions without restrictions in everything. To have some fun and enjoy things which talks to self indirectly that it could be me if I do it without anything is hampering me. And this is me.

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THE OMNI HUB: Bridging What’s in Between and Lobbying for Approval.

Criticism and rejections are fundamental elements of achieving improvement and the trophy of success. However, it measures your resiliency and ability to think critically where it enables one to flourish and capture the best relief of fulfillment for good purpose in society and humanity itself.

The “Omni Hub” team mobilizes our efforts to gather a satisfactory response from our target audience and actors of this software application soon to be launched in the market. Introducing our newly developed strategies for our software application, mentioning the collaborative initiatives that it pushes to accomplish and aiding the agony of demands does the majority clamouring at this globally competitive environment. 

Contextually, we planned as a team to divide and delegate this task in order for us to work effectively and efficiently. We require the team to conduct an interview with regards to asking for a final approval for the application to be potentially launched in the remote market. 

As a team, we consolidated the gathered information in our respective group chat as our common channel of communication. We have discussed the suggestions and objections of the software application, as well as the approval that we intentionally require to have. 

The common responses that we gather are generated by a tool analysis that thematically explains the helpful answers in various fields. So “Omni Hub” received answers in the following:

 The Channel of the Academe

Upon conducting the interview, it highlights the approval of “Omni Hub” to launch because it provides assistance to academic necessity as students are seeking convenience in terms of their inquiries and whereabouts of stuff.

The Plethora of Technology

The “Omni Hub” is modernized and adaptive to the emergence of technology. It utilizes the new normal reality of 21st time operation in everything - economically, socially, environmentally, and politically. 

Access of Opportunity

It is one of the objectives “Omni Hub” is attempting to propose which allows skillful individuals to be developed and utilized in the remote market. Better yet, enabling students and the grassroots to strive by using this platform of the “Omni Hub” to generate income and promote various services - academically, financially and socially. 

Therefore, in consensus of the majority, “Omni Hub” is potentially approved as it is grounded with commendable data acquired by our team. More so, it manifests itself to its goals and statement of the purpose.

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Campus Conundrums: Cultivating an Innovations Ecosystem for Individual Solutions through Entrepreneurial Mind

Commencing from ashes toward achieving a fundamental goal requires resiliency and perseverance, optimistic planning, and brilliant strategy. This systematic element is essential for us to clinch the true meaning of achievement. With that, navigating the challenges of the students in the campus from bustling corridors to quite study nooks, our university is a melting pot of ideas, aspirations and inevitably problems. However, through entrepreneurial mind course offers best aid to their concerns and demands that keeps holding the masses convenience, accessibility, and liberty to make things possible.

As part of our objective quest to provide solutions and best options on demands and concerns of the studentry lies a huge responsibility, embarking on an unprecedented journey allow us to understand the intricacies of the student campus obstacles, no more further businesses, we engaged in insightful interviews with fellow students is a necessity to gather common ground, informational data and to uncover their unfolding campus chronicle experiences. Along the way of conversation, we have seen their agonies, their exhaustion and complacency of their encounters.

In fact, we aimed to delve in excavating the abyss of their difficulties. Our team or group formed a good question that substantially target the roots and core level to understand the student better. In my end, I conducted online interview to provide mutual safe spaces and ample time in preparation of the sessions. I strategically do three game- session activity.

To begin, delving into the heart of the matter, the first activity entitled “Campus Chronicles: Unveiling Challenges”, in this moment, individually, I allow them to share their stories behind about the University, their both positive and negative encounters, from administration management, environmental fulfillment and student satisfaction. Perhaps, I could be able to know their pages of stories and gradually can keep on track their challenges as well. In context, internet/signal connection, printing access stations, and the tons of garbage are the common problems and challenges they have seen and experienced in the campus. It was indeed not surprising, and I expected it already from their responses. The list may daunt but each challenge presents a gateway of creativity.

Moreover, the second activity entitled “Crowd Sourcing Ideas!”, interestingly, this activity alone I could grasp ideas coming from them. Letting them think for their possible solutions to their own problems or challenges at school. I find it informative discussion to listen from their waving ideas that may help to create a ripple impact in our planned solutions. To provide consideration in their wants and needs. Thus, installment of internet/signal connection, printing outlets and trash bins encompassing all corners of the campus are their answers. Solutions for development thrives in environment that encourages individuals’ engagement and resiliency, embracing failure as a stepping stone to success.

Furthermore, the third activity entitled “From Ideas to Impact: The Journey to Implementation”, I see it mind-blowing knowing their responses in this activity. I asked them how it is possible and feasible. All I got, “maximizing the efforts and efficiency of the administration and the student council” are their answers. I am out words to give my comment as their responses leave an impactful realization – various administration and student council have seat in positions and yet the campus challenges remain unresolved. In essence, it has a remark of ineffective service from the university authority.

And on behalf of the university, I hold my breathe for a second before I could explain both sides of the coins. I respected their humble answers and I let them also understand the dynamics of the administration and student councils’ responsibility and roles in so many aspects, as an individual, as a student and staff, as a leader, and as legitimate authority. It is better to deepen our perspective in a lens that we could see the cleavages lies within every problem. I believe that the true measurement of success lies in our ability to be critical, adaptive, and optimistic in transforming these ideas into tangible that make difference in every life of the fellow students. Exploring the variety of the campus journey of implementation, it is crucial to be steadfast in amplifying impacts toward the commitment of excellence as well.

At this very moment, brainstorming innovative solutions to the dynamics of their agonies of sufferings is quite challenging to the team because we are attempting to maximize the availability of the science and technology. Consolidating the ideas of the group we have generated to create a software application that aligns to the objective of the entrepreneurial mind goal, “income generation, sustainable development and innovation”. With that said, fear not, for where there are problems, there are opportunities.

The characteristic of our software application aims to help student’s academic affairs, create a section for chat box assistance, allows students to have a room for commissions as potential student freelancers, online market, online banking transactions, and digitalized transportation activity. This is designed to avail product-service centered objective where it provides good services and various products to utilized.

This software application improves individual accessibility, convenience and liberty that serves their own needs and wants around places they go. It could generate equal opportunities to developer, consumer and operators.

As a matter of fact, innovation is not solely a buzzword. It is a mindset, a way of approaching challenges with curiosity, and creativity to transcend the horizon. Together, harnessing the power of innovation to transform individuals into thriving ecosystem players where every problem is opportunity waiting to be seized. Collaborate and create innovative future and beyond.

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CUSTOMER VALIDATION: A Respondent's Lens of Truth

The beauty of entrepreneurship has a profound connection with politics. With that, the dynamics of innovations rooted from politicians and government institutions to make people remain the culture of patron-client relationship that commonly embedded in our society, the political ideologies injected by people in power, the operations of policy making and decision-making revolves around with maneuvering authority, and the solidification of legitimacy of one’s authority as manifested in the society are ideas possessed with services as trade-off with “Political Validation”. In relation to our situation as Political Science,  I believe that to understand its core intentions of one leader or politicians and entrepreneurs are required to conduct validations as it fulfills one purpose and goals taken into form and comes to life in reality.  However, in this activity “Customer Validation” aims to oversee the possibilities of our innovative service offered in the market industry of business and entrepreneurship. Thus, it  challenges our ability to think critically, persuasively and deliberatively in allowing our service to be understood by our potential customers, and consumers despite the high emergence of competition in the field of study. As political science student, it is essential to conduct validation as one way of consolidating the consensus with their diverse perspective of creating ideas, perhaps, on the other hand, politics involves the majority in the operation of policy and decision making in the government that is adaptive in terms of their ever-changing demands, reflective as these legislation of policies really mirrors the situation of the grassroots and productive, in a way that the large amount of people in the society are safeguard with the policy and taking consideration the perspective of the people as they are ultimately suffer with its effect. 

OMNIHUB ACTION, CONDUCT CUSTOMER VALIDATION

The Process of  Verification (The experience)

As our group is trying to navigate the approval process with regards to answering the question of, “Does Omnihub service is marketable to the people?”, with this significant question, allows our team to mobilize in gathering respondents that actually give validation to our innovative service that aims to aid the various issues of the society as commonly seen by our group as well. Our group does a mechanism in dividing the people required to be interviewed in this activity and I interviewed 6 respondents in order to get proper approval from the people with the service Omnihub could offer. 

Interviewee #1 : Kharyll Sermon - 3rd Year BS Biology Student

She said that, “I find it unique. Imagine the services it offers from academic inquiries to online markets with safety regulations and conditions. I love the idea of collaboration and innovation.” As from that response, I gained 10% of confidence with our Omnihub. 

Interviewee #2 and #3: Denzel Fernandez- 1st Year BS Education-Mathematics Student and Vince Mellejor - 1st Year BA Political Science Student. 

As a good conversation with them, interviewee 2 responded, “I agree with this application. By looking at the situation of CMU from various issues that it faces, this application finds a way to help in resolving the students problems, the affordability in market, convenience and efficiency.”  

And interviewee 3 replied, “This Omnihub application has essential features that encourage everyone to download the app and register. I support the omnihub software application. ” 

From that validation alone, I could imagine the effectiveness of our service to offer to the people. 

Interviewee # 4, #5, and #6 : Blaire Rodrigues, John Becerro, and Angel Mae Artigo - Both are 1st Year BA English Language Studies Students. 

There is a good question I encountered in this discourse with the interviewee because it concerns the securities and legalities of our Omnihub service and with that, I understand their concerns and made me realize to actually make it a main priority amidst the existence of cyber fraudulent and online theft with privacy. 

Interviewee #4 : “It concerns my privacy as a freelancer in activating my profile in the application. However, I love the intention and purpose of this application because it provides a perfect platform to gain clients and customers.” 

Interviewee #5: “As a business small owner here in cmu, I will support this application because it elevates my business scope of market and it is a shoppee cmu edition.”

Interviewee #6: “It is adaptive to technology and CMU should allow this application to develop. A productive application, helping students with problems in terms of their less expertise in graphic designing and an online market in one software application.”

I am actually filled with enthusiasm and dedication to continue what Omnihub has started considering the innovations and quality of its service that it has to offer in the market and to the customers and consumers. 

OMNIHUB VALIDATION: STRUCTURE OF VALIDATION 

The Analysis Methodology

Word Cloud Analysis. This word cloud analysis is designed to consolidate repetitive answers from the respondents involved in the process of validation activity. With this alone we could identify those narrative words identified to delineate the OMNIHUB service offers and ideas present in these innovations. From its purpose and marketability factors, it is commonly seen that it is innovative, adaptive to technology and application convenience. Thus, Omnihub service is validated by people that it has a good potential to be available and accessed by people especially students and other individuals that have inquiry and demands Omnihub has to offer. 

OMNIHUB REALIZATIONS: FRUIT OF VALIDATION

The Lessons Learned…

As Political Science Student, personally, it is not new to me to talked with customers and consumers in business industry because way back in Alegria, Surigao del Norte, our family has owned a restaurant in the public market and with that experiences I have gained skills to attract customers to visit our humble restaurant. Fortunately, we have created a culture of patron-client relationship as loyal customers continue in repetition visiting our restaurant. In this activity, it develops my ability to be better businessmen, who knows the future of one’s fate, however, it develops my communication, uncover my confidence and stimulates my critical thinking and deliberation of intention and purpose in accomplishing the fundamental goal which is to achieve validations from potential customers.