Reflection for APK class - Hafizi

Hi all,

This post is just about my reflection through out the entire week of APK 2.0 class. I will just summarized what i have learnt from this new syllabus of APK subject. From the first class, when i heard the lecturer said that there will be new syllabus on this subject and no more selling things, i've thought that this will be become bored class. But my thought on that have completely change when go through out the class every week.

What I have learnt ?

To be honest, i have learnt a lot of new knowledge from this APK 2.0 class. The real industrial mentors which came to teach us the proper way to start a business really open my eyes. The mentor, Mr Bernard from Founders Lab company have done a good job in teaching us with his great spirit to make sure we get something useful in the end of the class. The first thing that i have learnt is how to find a good problem. It is important to find a good problem because from good problems then we can find the good solution and came out with good product. One way that i learnt how to find good problem is to do the why,why,why analysis. From this analysis, then we can get the root of the problem and find the solution from it.

I also learnt to do the business model, but Mr. Bernard have more interesting way to do the business model by bringing the business model canvas to us. The business model canvas have really simplified everything that we need to have in our business model and it is also easy to understand even for a new learners like all of us. Mr. Bernard have explained to us how to complete each block in the canvas and then complete our business model.

Next i learnt about how important the customer feedback to our business. This is because, once our business model canvas completed, the mentor have ask us to go out from class and approach our potential customer to present our business model to them. This is important as we can get many feedback from our customer and improve our product.

Finally, i learnt that nowadays, to make our business more successful, we have to do rapid prototyping the product. This is mean that, once we get the basic information about our product , then we can prototype it and present it again to our customer. If there is any improvement, feedback from customer, then we improve our prototype and the same process start again until we get the complete and good product. That is what we called rapid prototyping.

Applied what i have learnt

How do i applied what i have learnt from this class? Actually i have a dream to start my own business in the future and i'm sure by getting this good knowledge from our mentor, Mr Bernard, it will be useful to me in the future once i want to start the business because i already have proper guide from this APK 2.0 class.

I think that all for now and i'm really enjoy during all the APK class because i have awesome mentors, and  awesome group members. Thanks to all. See you again