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Market Value: Starting with the Consumers or the Government?
This week, we were able to test our product’s value proposition with a couple of new users who hadn’t heard about what we were doing. This was a great opportunity to hear the questions they had for why we were involved and how our solution would really be different from what currently exists. Through these […]
Week 10: Improving the User’s Experience with Mediscope
This week we were able to test our format of information input for Mediscope. In general, beneficiaries were excited about the format of the input. They were also enthusiastic about the idea of a game-like progression with badges or notifications to incentivize information input. Biggest concerns were around issues of security and verification of data, […]
Week 9: Building out a vision for data input
One of the important hypotheses we tested this week was the concept that we can build this data input to accommodate all users. This was an important hypothesis to test because we have kind of determined that the most valuable way of using this product would be to extend it to all users. We wanted […]
Discovering the true value add
Week 7: Mission Achievement This week we wanted to make sure that we were headed in the right direction and continued to ask our target beneficiaries, 18D’s, about our MVP. We were even able to show the MVP to an 18D in person this past weekend. The responses to the MVP were great ranging […]
Proceeding with Caution
The biggest lesson for us from this week is that information on medical evacuation and procedures to access it exist — but the root of the problem is how to organize & update information so that it is actually used in a way that cuts down on-the-field med evac logistics planning time. Our interviewees shed […]
Week 1: Getting Context on SF Medics
This week, we spent much of our time in interviews getting a baseline understanding of the roles of medics in the military (both “regular” medics as well as SF medics), and the challenges they face. What we tended to hear from many of the people we spoke to focused on training and on defining the […]
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