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MVP: YouthCreate

Potential Revenue Streams: 1. Freemium Model (Subscription-Based Revenue) Basic Plan (Free)  – Users get access to limited portfolio templates and a basic CV builder. Premium Plan (Paid)  – Offers advanced portfolio designs, custom domain linking, analytics (e.g., portfolio views, job application tracking), and exclusive mentorship opportunities. 2. Job Listing Fees (Employer Revenue) Companies, agencies, and startups pay to post job listings, internships, and freelance opportunities on the  YouthCreate  job board. 3. Portfolio & CV Enhancement Services Paid professional services for: Custom portfolio designs (personalized themes, animations, custom branding). AI-powered CV reviews and optimization. One-on-one consultations with career experts to refine portfolios and CVs. 4. Gig Marketplace Commission If users find  freelance gigs or projects  through YouthCreate, the platform can take a small commission on successful transactions. 5. Corporate Sponsor...

MVP: BeatLab

Main Revenue Streams: Subscription tiers that users can pay to get access to software, samples, and videos that help users with production Additional Revenue Streams: One-Time Purchases  – Offer exclusive sound packs, plugins, or presets that users can buy separately from the subscription. Affiliate Marketing  – Partner with music gear or software companies to earn commissions on referred sales. Sponsored Content  – Work with brands to create sponsored tutorials, product demos, or reviews. Merchandise  – Sell branded apparel, studio accessories, or physical sound libraries (USBs, vinyl samples, etc.). Custom Services  – Offer mixing, mastering, sound design, or personalized sample pack creation as premium services. Courses & Certifications  – Provide structured music production courses with certificates upon completion. Bussiness model canvas: 1. Key Partners: Plugin developers and sound designers Music production influencers and educators Affiliate par...

DMP Week 5: Ethos and interviews

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 Quick tho:  -For my data analysis in my report  -I will use Word clouds / Quote texts /  thematic analysis  -simple and flexible approach  -interpreting the data and terms of themes  In  deductive  thematic analysis, you use a predetermined framework to analyse data This approach is used when one has specific research questions (or research objectives) that already identify the main themes to look for in the data Inductive  thematic analysis is more time consuming Little or no predetermined theory is used to analyse data The themes emerge from the data you start with the data and can group it into themes  then develop codes from the data and themes  Thematic analysis process  1. Get to know your data  Transcribing my interviews / otter to get a transcprition / Writing in my journal and videoing myself too / organise my files so that they are easy to retrieve / LABEL FILES "Interview Participant 1" 2. Focus the analys...

MVP: White rose films

Key partners: Local Bussiness's  Equipent rental companies  Influencers, Content creators, Musicians and artists  Key activities: Creating short form content for small bussiness's  Social media marketing and consulting  Videography  Storyboarding  Editing Managing client shoots  Key resources: Equipment (rental or payed in full) / Camera, lighting, audio equipment  Trust with customers (Final product needs to be worth the time and payment) Editing software (Davincci) Social media and videography portfolio (To gain trust with customers) Reliable transport to drive and move equipment (Van) Creative storytelling and video editing skills (Hiring a team or proffesionals in editng and storytelling) Customer relationships: All communication with customer will be real  Teams meetings every week to talk about proggress  In person meetings at customers place of employments  Customer cycle / Customer emails me or messages my socials / Ini...

Bussiness Week 5 (Bussines model canvas)

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Bussiness model canvas: 1.Key partners - who are the suppliers, website hosts,  2.Key activities- The most important things you need to be able to perform to make the bussines work  3.Key resources -  ”The most important resources required to make the business work”:  • Financial, Human, Machinery, Warehousing, Distribution  • Intellectual Property, Patents, Brands  • Traffic or large Customer Base  • Trust  • Is this business feasible from your analysis? 4.Customer relationships - What is the bond with the customer. Do you have weekly teams meetings showing work  / automatic bots / Customer lifecycle /  5.Value Proposition - “The perceived benefit of products and services to your target segment”  • Directly relates to your segment – how are your creating value?  • Helps your customer address a fundamental problem or need (get a ‘job’ done) kill pains and create gains • Isn’t the technology or product per se.  • ...

DMP WEEK 4 (Web design)

When doingabut me page  Link to previous employers  Use headers  Dont create word walls  Use bullet points  Use less words  Google docs DEMO

Bussiness week 4 (presentation time)

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Market research  - Desk research - Filed research   Build a mental picture as to what is going on in the field in which you want to start bussiness in. Terminolodgy  Sector / Large part of economy  Industry / A collection of companies  Market / Buyers and sellers meet to transact the same or similar service Demographic / Group of people defined by their characteristic e.g: Gender or age Psychographic / research based upon phycological values such as opinions or interests  Behaivioures /What peple do and how they do it  How to measure the attractiveness of the industry you want to grow your bussiness in  Porters five forces - Michael porter 1985 Example: Video Games Industry  Market analysis TAM/ SAM/ SOM analysis: TAM: Total Available Market = All of the market  SAM: Serviceable Addressable Market = The bit you're in competition for with others  SOM: Serviceable Obtainable Market = The bit you can capture   Other types of resea...

Bussiness Week 3 (Ideas)

Thursday: -Pitching  -storytelling -Slides should have as few words as possible  -Use logos and images instead of bullet points -Introduce the concept of what your gonna tell them  -then tell them  -then reiterate the main points  ______________________________________ (Affordable meals) communty brief  Manchester Community Kitchen – Affordable Meals, Skills & Sustainability  🍽️🌱 Mission To tackle food poverty and unemployment in Manchester by providing affordable, nutritious meals while offering culinary training and job opportunities to vulnerable communities. The Concept A community kitchen and café that: Serves Affordable, Healthy Meals  – Pay-what-you-can pricing for those in need. Provides Culinary Training  – Helping unemployed individuals gain cooking skills. Reduces Food Waste  – Sourcing surplus food from local businesses & supermarkets. Offers Community Cooking Classes  – Teaching families how to cook on a budge...

DMP Week 3

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Feedback: Analyse feedback on moodle and fix up your project plan so that you can start data collection -Apendix, Storyboard  -Literature review, Compare the sources more and include more of them, Link back to each source and synthasise what you have gathered and how it relates to the overall research -Research question, Make it more of a question 💚 -Redo title make it more clear and define the research more 💚 -Intro, should incklude a clear rationale for my project, provide context and explain its importance 💚 (just maybe add a source somwhere in the para)   -Delve deeping into algortihms and other ways recommender algorithms work  -Some objectives, Some of them need to be slipt as they are two 💚 -Define your sampling method, why students, how many, and how I will recruit them 💚 -Specify the equipment you plan to use to record your visual 💚 -Explain how you will edit your video with examples and sources to define 💚 -use in text citations to refer to the appendicie...

Bussiness week 2

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Tuesday  3 ten mintues videos about products based on the briefs shown in the Moodle 1 of each most likely  Where to find bussiness ideas? Difference between ideas and oppertunities? -Ideas are not oppertunities -Need to think through the details  -turn these ideas into oppertunities  -oppertunities are realistic ideas the can be monitised  -Always gonna change as you learn more about customers and market  -source ideas -google trends/ hobbies (music)/ personal issues/ AI (Chat GPT)/ societal issues (loneliness and social media addiction) (rage rooms)  Japans rent a man system is built arounf the collectivism of japans culture so an oppertunity such as this may not work in the UK Using tools to uplift your ideas. -Lens of inovation  Find a problem  if you solve a problem for someone chances are they will pay you  if you build on this you can solve alot of peoples problems and turn it into a bussieness Here are some common problems  ...

Interviews

Noah Jess Kai Sam Elliot Backups: Wongy Evan Ryan

DMP Week 2

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Reflective practice: -learn from what you do so that you can improve your future practice  -revising and analysing your work -reflection, self awareness, critical thinking -Gibbs (1988) model of reflection  https://reflection.ed.ac.uk/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/gibbs-reflective-cycle -clear and precise, allows description, evaluation Descriptions: - Two lines or a para explaining what you did  Feelings: - Explain how you felt throughout the whole project and how it has changed  Evaluations: - Stand back from experience and examine the good and the bad  Analysis: - Examine your experience in depth (ask detailed questions) and identity factors that had a big impact on your work Conclusion: - Sum up key lessons learnt and indicate areas for improvement  Action plan: - If you were to do it again, what would you do differently and how  _____________________________________________________________________________________ PM Lecture: Do wix p...

Bussiness week 1

Brief  3 x 10 mins presentation  3 x prototype bussiness ideas that show a semi finished product  No writing all ideas  Supply three of your best ideas  Starting point should be small and then you build efficiently as you grow  “Lean startup” book  _____________________________________________________________________________________