It's been really interesting taking this class because I am also taking IEOR 186: Product Management. There's been some overlap but that class I'm building a mobile app whereas here we're using IP/patents which makes the mindset really different. The audience is different, the customers are different, the way we're trying to get buy in from investors is different.
The highlights is to be able to work with patents and get to this different mindset and really exercise those muscles and things we've learned so far. The lowlights would be that I was not the one who chose the patent, so it can get difficult to get buy in from the person who did in order to contribute more to the project. It was a bit difficult to work with this person because obviously they felt that they were the expert on the patent, but I think they found it difficult to let go of that ownership.
Something I learned from my other classes is that while you may be the originator of an idea, it's important to let some of that control go so that the best ideas from other individuals can help shape the final product. It's still something that our team needs to get a handle on for the final pitch- we'll see how it goes.
Hi Clara,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your comments. Good to see that you're current. I'll update grade to reflect.
Good job on the presentation today. I would be interested in your thoughts on the usefulness of Ken Sandy's class vs. what we did in CL185. I did note that the presentations were more polished but didn't contain a lot of the info that we were looking to extract. No competition here but looking from a student's perspective.