Gabriella Levine

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Unreasonable at Sea day 66: Protei Business Model & Design Entrepreneurship Class Final

Business Model Protei

We had a 1 hour “deep dive” session on the Protei Business Model.

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Design Entrepreneurship class final

We got the final projects from each of the three groups working with Protei.

Recap of the stories:

 

TEAM 1:

* joe is a college student on stumbleUpon reviewing the hot topics and sees a new post of Protei.org. He thinks, “how can this contribute to my marine biology skills? i know science and marine bio, it’s cool but i’m hesitant” So he watches the intro video. The whole point of the video is empowerment : failure doesn’t exist, even an avg joe can do it and use the technology. The problem for protei is that people are scared to buy it, it is a significant $ burden for students; everyone is capable but we want them to be inspired enough to actually purchase it.

TEAM 2:

* Jerry is passionate about enviro issues ; he is smart and curious individual; jerry learned about protei; and loved the idea about open source tech; it felt daunting that he couldn’t use it but then he learned through the website by clicking on “scientist” that you do not have to be a protei expert to use a protei boat; jerry gains knowledge and success.

The idea is that we can empower and approach someone by taking a different approach for each demographic – get students and scientists to design boats themselves and have easy to use tutorials to get students to buy a boat.

* [This seems quite lonely to me and I love tech the most when I work socially]

TEAM 3:

* A lonely fisherman, Carter, buys Protei for him and his grand-daughter; play and share: both old and young, parent and child – work together. What people invest in and what people enjoy. Together in a social collaborative activity they feel that they can change the world – build data add ons mapp the ocean. The intersection between the old and the new, with the feeling that they’re making the wold a little bit better – a combination of both – like freeRice.com.

Later

And we had another nice sunset again :)

Photo credit to Ben Gallagher

I worked out with Daniel and Evan pretty late, and we delved into the zip code system…a confidential game.

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