Team 4-7 Summary Feedbacks

Summary of the feedbacks given by the community for projects 4-7 at session 14.

Team 4- Technion International

·         Not clear how the terms learned in class were implemented in the project

·         Consider wider collaboration with the International school

·         Lack of metrics which measure progress

·         Assign a person who will be in charge of contacting relevant students

·         The project's continuity strategy isn't clear  

·         Think about a marketing strategy so more international students will know about the project

Team 5- Isra-Intership

·         It is unclear who will continue developing the project after the semester ends and what are the future steps.

·         Present more details about open positions and companies

·         Find out how to work with more companies due to the growing demand of the service

·         Keep in touch with foreign students in order to continue hearing relevant feedback

·         The International school is a key player and can contribute a lot to the project

Team 6-   Rank your course

·         Continuity strategy isn't clear

·         Marketing

o   Think how to motivate students to participate

o   Project would be useful only at the beginning and end of semesters. Except these times the site would have little or no activity.

·         Expand the project to other faculties

Team 7- Eat Wizard

·         Target market is small

·         Uniqueness of the product isn't clear compared to its competitors

·         The website is addressing different target crowds. Define more clearly which aspects relate to every crowd

·         Use more terms learned in the course

·         The team showed a real progress from starting point in terms of marketing and design  

MVP Third and Last Round Ratings

See below the distribution and average ratings for the last round,
Pay attention to the distribution and not only to the average of the ratings:

Good Luck on your finals!

The Teaching Team

Team 1-3 Summary Feedbacks

Please see below a summary of the feedbacks given by the community for projects 1-3 at session 13.

Team 1 – Job Intelligence- Feedbacks

·         Isn't self sustained- the site needs to be updated by the team regularly.

·         The unfair advantage of the team isn't clear compared to other similar services (like Alljobs and Drushim sites)

·         Traffic metrics and analytics Are advisable (for example, the average time the user spends on the site, how many users have sent their CV using the site)

·         Continuation of the project is very important. The team showed in detail how to continue and expand the project.

·         Consider contacting small companies as well, as they offer more flexibility and chances to grow professionally.

·         The team listened and learned from the feedback of the community, and improved the project accordingly.

Team 2- Charity Works! - Feedbacks

·         Well presented, the video Brought an extra value to the presentation.

·         In addition to the TLL, each team member showed his/hers ILL.

·         Concepts of the course were well presented and implemented in the presentation.

·         More info should be provided about the continuation of the project and its competitors.

·         The TLL should have more specific details (for example, how did the team deal with problems)

Team 3- InterJob- Feedbacks

·         Assuming the web site will self sustain itself might cause a problem -The project might not survive.

·         Content supervising (checking content for spam or incorrect information) will make the site more reliable.

·         The videos on the site make the project special and remarkable.

·         The team should elaborate on the terms mentioned in the TLL by explaining how they implemented them on their project.

·         Insufficient incentive for creating content.

·         Team work mentioned in the presentation is important (although it is taken for granted in the course)

CharityWorks! Israel - Our final presentation

Last week, excited and enthusiastic, we've come to present to the community our accomplishments regarding the course project.

We would like to thank all of you for the support you have shown throughout the semester, including tips, constructive criticism, ideas and many other forms of feedback you have gave us.  

Moreover, your undivided attention last week, while our presentation, was amazing and the feedback at the end was overwhelming.

Volunteering is important and we intend to spread out the word - it is now easy, more accessible & more social to volunteer!

Sincerely, 

Shahar Mintz

on behalf of

CharityWorks! Israel - The Team.  

P.S - good luck for the next teams presenting!

Course MVP metrics

I had an idea last class (17/06) which I shared with Alex and Ortal.
Ortal insisted that I'll write it on the forum for her to remember and for us to comment on.

I wasn't intending to do so at first because I would then actually generate more work for the staff ... :)

Basically, I asked them, if you're (the staff) always speaking about how some parts of the course are sort of a MVP themselves, like the bulletin board, the forum, etc. - What do you think about showing us your metrics and progression along the past few courses?

It occurred to me that it would be interesting to see how this "product" pivoted in the last couple of years or so and how our feedback is considered in order to improve it for the next courses...

I'm not sure about the doability of quantifying the stats of the past courses into measure values as they might have not been collected, or maybe partially collected, so one could also take this idea as a suggestion for the upcoming course and those after - Defining metrics and collecting data regarding the course MVP.

The metrics definition could also be a makeup assignment*, if somebody still needs to do one...

* if the staff concurs

Shahar.

MVP Second Round Ratings

See below the distribution and average ratings for the second round,
Pay attention to the distribution and not only to the average of the ratings:

S.T.F.U - my lesson from pitching to investors

In my career  I've pitched my company to hundred of shaky investors. Some nice, some kind but mostly sharky. I've raised more than $5,000,000 to my company, and the most important lesson I've learned in managing feedback is to Shut The Fuck Up, and listen. Being a red head, keeping silence is challenging so I used to write on my knuckles S. T. F. U.

When presenting to investors or MVP for this matter, it's far more important to listen, absorb and digest  than to argue your point. Yes, many times people are nasty and just want to sound smart - but you won't change that by arguing. More often people didn't catch what you said, or your message, product etc - YOU are the only one to blame for that. The point is that you as presenter should improve for the next time, and do a better job!

Last week one of the students came to complaining about the feedback I gave to their MVP. Personally the objective is never to offend anyone, and if I do such I'm sorry. With that said, my tip would be to embrase relavent feedback there, and improve.

In the meanwhile, I'll continue STFU....;-)

J.I progress!!!

Since  last Monday class close to 100 students registered to the site thanks to the marketing campaign we conducted in the various social networks 

you do not want to be left behind! 

register today: http://www.job-in.co.il/

Wow!! they did it again!

Enjoy! The EAT Wizard Team :)

Job Intelligence has added a new feature!

 

Students can now get a comprehensive guide to instruct them on how to write a resume.

http://www.job-in.co.il/

Among other things we wrote about lessons we learned in class such as a T shaped person, do you really need a resume etc'. 

 

we will love to hear some  ideas..

EAT Wizard on Instagram!!

!Hi  Community

 We invite you to TAKE A PICTURE of your healthy and delicious holiday meals and UPLOAD it to

!!! your INSTAGRAM

  !Compete for the best Shavuhot meal
!The winner will be announced next week and will receive a special prize

!HAPPY SHAVUOT

EatWizard Team

 

!!Newest teaser

MVP Full Ratings-

See bellow the distribution and average ratings of all the 7 MVP's

Job Intelligence has launched a new MVP version

We have created a new version of our MVP as a result of students feedback.

In this new version we added:
1) Three attractive job offers as a teaser of our service.
We hope this will convince students to register to the site and will creat a professional image among employers.
2) tips and video tutorials for success in job interviews.

It is an attempt to create a service that will take the student through all the steps of getting a job.
 

 watch the new version

We welcome any feedback you might have,

 

J.I

EAT Wizard TLL & ILL Document

Hi Community!

We just wanted to share with you our new TLL and ILL document. It will be updated from time to time by each team member, so you're invited to follow and read!

We would also want to thank you all for your kind words and good feedbacks from last lessons! 

READ THE EAT Wizard TLL & ILL

Also, here are our professional profiles:

Nir Chitlaru 

Google+

Hani Amram

LinkedIn

Google+ 

Daniel Honigsblum

LinkedIn

Google+

Topaz Haliva

LinkedIn

Google+

Jonathann Zenou

LinkedIn
Google+

With great power comes great responsibility...

First of all, we would like to thank all of you for the complimenting ratings.
Given the leverage at hand, it is now our mission to develop this great opportunity into something great.
CharityWorks! Israel will come to be the largest hub for charity activities in Israel!

Sincerely (With links to our Google+ profiles),

Shany Maliss
Gilad Keren
Liad Klein
Adi Rozenswieg
Mor Ben Ami
Shahar Mintz


In the midst of the learning cycles we would like to update you about our new features & additions!
1. We are adding a PROFILE feature allowing documentation of past volunteering activity.
2. We are establishing a DISTRIBUTED GROUP feature - reaching out to friends, creating a custom
    volunteering group for a certain activity at a certain time...
3. FACEBOOK connectivity is in plan, but not for the close iterations.
4. We are deliberating on our MARKETING plans, and have started to round up FIRST ADOPTERS from
    the charity organization side.

Always here for your opinion,

Shahar Mintz
On behalf of the CharityWorks! Israel team.

Following the lowest rating we received on the MPV,
we want to invite you to read an article we published on Factor (Technion  student newspaper).

We hope that through the article you will better understand the importance
of our project – Job Intelligence

MVP Ratings:

See below the community ratings of each team's MVP for the first round-
Pay attention to the distribution and not only to the average of the ratings:

Coming up next week: Technion's pitching competition - $1000 worth of prizes

Great chance to get out of the building and test your social venture with a supporting crowd but outside of the course's scope.

Both international and local students are invited, the pitches can be in English as well.

Competitors receive 2 minutes to do their pitch and receive feedback from the judges and the crowd.

And... Don't forget about the prizes:

1st place: $500

2nd place: $300

3rd place: $200

Before the competition, Ami Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO at Windward, will share his story with us.

Monday, 29.4, 18:30, just an hour after class at Taub (CS faculty) room 337 with some free pizza ;)

Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/events/130318783827297/

If you have any questions, please feel free to write them in the comments.

Suggestions for Social Ventures course and Blog

• The course syllabus should have more practical items and less theory.
• Each team of the class should have a specific location on course site or the blog where it will concentrate its all of its materials.
• The articles to read on a weekly basis should be shorter and more straight-to-the-point.

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