Thursday March 21st

A very long lunch with Matt  Today was a very productive day. We got together to continue with our product development.  One of our directors, Matt Browne, joined us to help out with the process. Matt’s enthusiasm was infectious and we were all really excited to get some great ideas together. We did some divergence exercises on a few products then did some convergence to try and find the best products and ideas. We got some great value from this exercise. We began to see our potential products coming together. Now we need to...

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Wednesday March 20th

Last Day of Term!  The first whirlwind term of the Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship (PDE) came to an end. We felt it was time to party a little.  We had a team building braai just to get to know each other a bit better outside of work and the university environment.  Craig kindly offered up his house as a venue. Meat, drinks and Thirty Seconds were the order of the day, the skottle was lit (it seemed strange to be...

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Tuesday March 19th

Today we had another work shop with Ian and Ali Corbett about product development. It involved a continuation on from the previous weeks work on creativity.  The focus had shifted from divergence towards convergence and the rest of the creative process leading towards prototyping.  We felt that we needed more divergence before we tried to move forward. So we spent the time continuing to work around the needs of students and problems they...

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