While researching about sharing economy, I found the article "Platform cooperativism. Challenging the corporate sharing economy" By Trebon Scholz (2016). He talks about the impact that current emerging sharing economy platforms such as Uber and AirBnb have on our workforce, their rights and the society as a whole. He describes it not as a new … Continue reading Cutting out the mysterious middlemen
Workshop #3
Today we had our third and final workshop. We spent most of the day doing creative building with Lego. Through various exercises, we used lego as a creative guide to develop and come up with ideas. After initial exercises to get the creativity going, and telling stories about the things we built, we were sorted … Continue reading Workshop #3
Workshop #2
Yesterday we had our second workshop. We spent it in groups, tackling the topic "Building the Capacity of Creative Entrepreneurs to Drive Change". We had to discuss this topic and create a 3-5 min video essay. Our group went for an idea inspired by the transition network, green economy and Max Neef's theories. We came … Continue reading Workshop #2
Ways to get around the tax problem
As mentioned in my earlier post, I ran into a problem with Karmatrade, in that the idea would be classified as unregistered income and tax evasion by Danish Law. Here I present a few ways in which the idea could change to make it work in a different way: The party offering a service or … Continue reading Ways to get around the tax problem
Rob Hopkins – Transition to Green Economy
Today in class we saw a number of videos, one of them "Transition to Green Economy" by Rob Hopkins from the Transition Network. It was a very inspiring video touching upon the subject of capitalism and the current economic system in the world. He and his organisation are working to redirect the economic flow to … Continue reading Rob Hopkins – Transition to Green Economy
Deciding on an idea and roadblocks
After giving it much thought, I found my idea of Karmatrade to be the best one. The idea of trading favors or goods with other people, without money being involved seemed like a cool idea that I could see potential in. I tried envisioning different ways the service would work in practice. Instead of money, you … Continue reading Deciding on an idea and roadblocks
Developing new ideas
Being a bit unsure with the way to go moving forward, I decided to explore other ideas for companies. The ideas are as follows: Memento - a company/product that helps people pass on the legacy they want to loved ones, through an artifact. In line with this, I think it's also really interesting how very few … Continue reading Developing new ideas
Presentation day
Yesterday we presented our lit reviews. Afterwards we developed our business idea through a workshop. The critique I received for my presentation was mainly that it lacked a real focus. I needed to sell something better. I agree with this myself, in that I don't think I really had a business or idea to sell … Continue reading Presentation day
Lean philosophy and pretotyping
Working on my lit review, I have chosen to focus on the two methods Lean startup and Pretotyping. While there are countless of blog articles on what the pretotyping methods entail and how to apply the lean philosophy to a business, I am more interested in what these methods actually do for a company. Seemingly … Continue reading Lean philosophy and pretotyping
A new beginning
Studying a semester at Swinburne University of Technology, I am taking the course Creative Entrepreneurship. Here I will document and reflect on my learnings and development in this course. Week 1 I learned about frugal innovation and what it means. Merriam Webster defines frugal in the following way: frugal adjective Synonyms and Antonyms of frugal careful … Continue reading A new beginning
Jeppe Kjøller - A reflective journal 