Monday, March 28, 2016

Venture Concept No.1

Venture Concept
Opportunity:

The need for having an app be able to detect music by just human voice first came to be from my own personal need. I have always had the problem with not being able to remember lyrics of songs, or having a song be stuck in my head but not knowing the name or artist.

·       So my concept came up on what if there was an app similar to Shazam that could detect music by listening to a human voice humming the melody. From there I spoke to other people, made elevator pitches and business concepts and then found out how many other people also have this need to find the names of songs that are stuck in their head.
   
·       From there this potential market has a wide demographic that could expand from young to old, any religion, any ethnicity. This is a huge opportunity for the music business, for the app business, and for people.

 The window of opportunity is wide open, there really isn’t a time constrain at this moment.

Innovation:

·       So the app I have created is called Mind and Melody. How it functions is that the user opens the app and sings/hums/plays the rhythm of whatever song that they do not know all the words to.

·       The app listens and then goes through a huge data base of music and is able to detect the melody that was sung to it from the user.
·       The app then displays the song to the user, and also provides places to listen to the song such as Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and Sound Cloud, plus lyrics. That is essentially what the app does, it finds the music stuck in people’s heads.

·       From there, the primary way that I would be making money is by selling my app to some technology company or to any game system company and partner up with them.

·       From there they would be paying me to use my app. Also perhaps for a time being the app would have to have a price, perhaps $2.99 so in order to use it customers would have to buy the app. Or there could be a trial version and then a premium version, where the user would have to pay a certain amount a month or a yearly prescription in order to use the app with all its bells and whistles.

Venture Concept:

·       My innovation would solve the opportunity I mentioned above by fulfilling the needs of people who want to know the songs that they have been hearing on the radio but can’t remember the words of the artist name.

·       My product will serve anyone who wants to find out about music, or whoever is just curious about how the app works.

·       I believe customers would buy my product because it is something unique and actually really cool. The potential of the app is great and would be fun to have as a buyer.   

·       Now it would be easy for customers to switch to this product because there is nothing like it! There would be no actual “switching”, perhaps some competition from something similar like Shazam, but Shazam does not have the capability to detect the human voice like Mind and Melody does.

·       Luckily there is no packing for my product so super easy for anyone to get and for me to deliver.

·       The support I need for my business however is exponential. I need graphic designers, app developers, sound engineers, advertisement people, financial partners, and music artist’s assistance in order to make this business happen.

Three minor elements:

·       My most important resource is that of the human capital I have. It is my skill of being well spoken and an amiable person and my ability to make connections easily with people.

·       Then my next big tackle I would have aimed at customers would be for another app be able to understand peoples doodles of TV shows and movies. Perhaps at times you cannot exactly explain to someone a show you watched or the name of the show or the names of characters, but you can draw it. My next product could be able to understand those drawings and find through the power of the internet what show the user is trying describe.

·       Where would I be five, ten years from now after my first business venture? Great question. I would hope that my product is a success, bringing me a decent income and a popular product on the market. I hope that my product helps people, and surges the music technology world forward. I hope that I have a nice place to live, that I have graduated from school, that I am in good health and that my family is well.  


4 comments:

  1. Wow great idea! i really enjoyed how you are trying to expand on a certain product. I currently see this only being with song recognizition and not lyric. This can be extremely useful for people who are artist and want to sound like the people who sing these songs. anyways great post and check out my blog athttp://michaelduellent.blogspot.com/

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  2. Hi Karina, I really liked your idea for this exercise. Specifically because this is a problem that I'm sure has plagued every single person at some point in their life. That being said, the one thing that i would change is the pricing model. I think that you would earn way more money by making it completely free and then having advertisements, as well as companies paying you to have their service (ie itunes, or spotify) first on the list of things to listen on. You could even integrate it with some services to automatically save it to your music if you wanted.

    Here's a link to my blog. http://natehooper.blogspot.com/2016/03/venture-concept-no-1.html

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  3. Karina, I like the idea but it does sound like a lot of work to create. How are you going to find all the people you need to bring this idea to fruition?

    I know that personally, this app wouldn't be very helpful to me because I'm tone deaf and can never get the melody right, but I know a lot of people who would really love an app like this. Like Nathanael said, I think it would be better to be free and use advertisers to bring in revenue. Overall, great job and good luck on this venture!

    Here's a link to mine if you'd like to check it out:

    http://kalimcauleyentrepreneur.blogspot.com/2016/03/venture-concept-no-1.html

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  4. Hey Karina, I really loved reading about this app idea that you had! I honestly run into the same problems all the time and have gone days where it was driving me crazy to figure out the name of the song. I also thought that your name for the app was extremely clever and liked the fact that your app tells people where they can buy or stream this music. Overall, I really believe that this idea could be a huge success, especially in a generation that is so tech savvy. Great job and keep it up! Check out my blog here:
    http://brycesharrold2.blogspot.com/2016/03/venture-concept-no1.html

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