{"id":33603,"date":"2020-03-04T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=33603"},"modified":"2020-03-04T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:04:51","slug":"introducing-problem-solving-need-recognition-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/introducing-problem-solving-need-recognition-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Problem Solving & Need Recognition Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Processes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 6.1 Sometimes,\n navigating from the recognition of an opportunity to overcoming \nproblems in the development of that opportunity can feel like winding \nthrough a maze. (credit: modification of \u201chuman hand company paper \nsolutions\u201d by \u201cEluj\u201d\/Pixabay, CC0)\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portions of the material in this section are \nbased on original work by Geoffrey Graybeal and produced with support \nfrom the Rebus Community. The original is freely available under the \nterms of the CC BY 4.0 license at \nhttps:\/\/press.rebus.community\/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi met when they worked together at DoSomething.org,\n a youth-oriented global nonprofit organization. They considered each \nother aspirational peers\u2014accessible friends they looked up to and leaned\n on. While working together, they got the idea to turn the support they \ngave each other into a product idea: an inspirational platform that \nwould send users a motivational text message each day. In 2015, \nHirabayashi and Lidey began to focus on turning their idea into a \nreality. They conducted a test with seventy individuals before publicly \nreleasing Shine in beta in October 2015. They formally left \nDoSomething.Org in April 2016 and their startup venture, Shine, was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem Shine tackles is that \u201cself-help is \nbroken\u201d and its value proposition addresses in part what is known as \n\u201cthe confidence gap,\u201d often cited as a barrier that holds women back \nwhen it comes to advancing in their careers, raising money, investing, \nand planning retirement. Shine has four pillars it is built to address: \nmental health, confidence, daily happiness, and productivity. As of \n2018, the Shine community had two million users from 189 countries. What\n began as a motivational text message service has since evolved to \ninclude an app and additional services such as Shine Talks and audio challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hirabayashi and Lidey recognized a need\u2014or an entrepreneurial opportunity<\/em>. You learned about identifying opportunities in the chapter on Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunity<\/a>. This chapter will explore what happens next\u2014the problem solving and need recognition techniques that entrepreneurs employ to carry the idea forward, and to solve issues that arise as the enterprise advances. Problem solving is essential to the genesis of entrepreneurship. At the same time, problem-solving techniques can be used in management and in an individual\u2019s everyday personal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adapted from OpenStax’s Entrepreneurship textbook: https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/entrepreneurship\/pages\/6-introduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Processes Figure 6.1 Sometimes, navigating from the recognition of an opportunity to overcoming problems in the development of that opportunity can feel like winding through a maze. (credit: modification of \u201chuman hand company paper solutions\u201d by \u201cEluj\u201d\/Pixabay, CC0) Portions of the material in this section are based on original work by Geoffrey Graybeal and produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33604,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}