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Five Interviews: People Who Should but Don't Share this Need Drawing conclusions based on Who:  Are there certain people or certain businesses that, although they share a lot in common with the others in your opportunity, nevertheless fall outside the boundary? Why? What:  At what point does the need you identified differ from another need? (Is thirst the same as hunger? Or is the desire to appear fashionable the same as the desire to be loved by others?) Why:  Is the underlying cause of the outsiders' need different than people who are inside the boundary? #1 (a young adult who has other things on her mind and no room for reading) Category: What She just doesn't have time. Simple as that. She used to, when she was an elementary school kid and then time after that, but somewhere along the way schoolwork and social life became college studies and more time-exhausting drama that developed into a job and "a billion other things to multitask" i...

I've called for added diversity to the young adult fiction genre on several accounts in order to escape these redundant plots that cash in on franchising the same old stuff disguised under new names. But if nobody wants to fix it, I guess it's up to the ones complaining to. I mean, it makes sense; if you want to see something materialized in the world, be the one to put it out there. So in tangible form, I propose to just make a new story and get it enough endorsement that it can actually catch wind and gain audience publicity. A new angle to approach it by (say, a child-author perhaps? I'm sure television interview shows would just gobble that up for ratings. Someone who writes for young adults and actually happens to be a young adult themselves--what a concept! Right? Who better to know the audience? I'm tired of old middle-aged mothers sitting in their offices thinking they can construct what kids need to read. Sorry, not sorry). And like I said before, if you want s...

Hypothesis: The current young adult reading selection lacks diversity due to impressionable mentality of the publishing industry that follows the same overused archetypes of previous successes, thus leaving the reading audience in need of some new variety in the genre that isn't derived the same overused tropes. Testing Hypothesis Boundaries Who The biggest people in need of this are the readers: the vast population of consumers whose age or preference in genre have them fall in the category of the target audience. Other people with invested interest are aspiring authors who cannot get a foothold in the industry do to the domination of the same overused ideas, as well as literary agents and publishing houses who could prosper with introducing some new material into the market. What This does not apply to all books in general, just those pertaining to the young adult genre, perhaps more specifically the young adult fiction genre. There seems to be such a systematized appro...

Regulatory Trends   U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Overtime Regulations http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7671-regulatory-issues-changes.html If this pending regulation gets approved, I feel like this will be an opportunity for workers to increase revenue albeit while also providing business owners the chance to make staff changes in order to adjust for the required increase in wages payed. This regulation would require an extension in overtime pay that would affect 4.2 million workers. Although to compensate there might be a redistribution of hours, this would be an opportunity for new workers to get hired (since management will want more people working less hours so as to avoid the additional overtime pay that comes with hiring a smaller number of employees to work larger hours to achieve equal efficiency). Or the opposite: business owners might refrain from hiring more people but this will prove to be helpful to those already employed who will receive overtime payment ...

For this assignment, I have to basically identify some opportunities presented in the current events section of any random small-scale newspaper. No big national newspapers allowed. With that ruled out, I couldn't even begin to think of one, so I asked a well-travelled long-distance friend to give me the name of any local newspaper she'd remembered in all her pitstops. Thus came the selection of Clay Today (it even rhymes; super cute, right?). One should never wish for disasters to occur in the hopes of exploiting the opportunities arising from tragedy, but let's just say that with the aftermath of hurricane Irma in that area, there are many fixer-uppers present. Let's see what we can do. 1. Animal shelter assessing damage  http://www.claytodayonline.com/stories/animal-shelter-assessing-damage,8477? During the events and aftermath of hurricane Irma, officials of the Clay County Animal Care and Control in Green Cove Springs struggled to save shelter animals as wel...

 A Twist On Opportunity Identification Do the words 'post-apocalyptic dystopian future' , ' modern twist on classic fairy tales ', ' heartfelt angsty coming-of-age story ', or ' love triangle ' make you groan and send you into vividly cringe-worthy flashbacks of middle school? Yeah, same here. My Beginning Point, Describing My Belief, and the Prototypical Customer For anyone who has read my Bug List earlier or even viewed the comments on that post, you can tell I see a need for added variety in Young Adult genre fiction and mainstream creative media. I feel like this is a potential opportunity I could address. We all know literary fiction is very scarcely produced in this era as it is, which is why its mainstream alternative (commercial fiction) has much more publicity, exposure, and relevance to contemporary society. Yet for pleasure reading purposes, commercial fiction has become so formulaic over the past few years that almost everything has be...