NEWS
The Battalion I 4.13.15
Tim Lai —THE BATTALION
Thirty students crowded into the Startup Aggieland offices
this weekend for 3 Day Startup, the 72-hour workshop
wherein students develop business ideas.
STARTUP CONTINUED
encouragement from the inves
tors reviewing the team’s propos
als, and the team was encouraged
to apply to continue developing
the idea through Startup Ag
gieland.
“The whole idea though is
to create enough momentum
throughout this weekend to sus
tain a viable company past this
weekend,” Pearce said.
Lester said each team received
critiques at the end of the week
end from the panel investors they
pitched their ideas to.
“There are no winners, and
we do that intentionally,” Les
ter said. “If there are one or two
people here that are really good at
graphic arts they may help mul
tiple teams and we try to create
that incentive for them to do it.”
Luke Neiss, philosophy senior
and member of the leadership
team, said the cooperative ap
proach of 3DS is good because
it allows the students to focus
working together to develop the
best idea they can.
“The idea of this event is kind
of like drinking from a firehose,”
Neiss said. “You just get hit with
so much information, and over
the next few months things that
you don’t even realize you picked
up you begin to notice.”
Neiss said 3DS sets student en
trepreneurs up for the future.
“What 3DS does is it gives you
a system, a methodology and a di
rection as well as helps you learn
how to do things like customer
validation,” Neiss said. “And
that’s really going to help you in
whether or not your idea is going
to get good traction.”
PETQUEST CONTINUED
I think it’s good for both sides, and
we’re in the middle.”
Richard Lester, clinical man
agement professor and PetQuest
mentor, said he was excited to get
involved when it came to Startup
Aggieland.
“They had main expertise that
they knew what they were talking
about,” Lester said. “They could
implement, and they were passion
ate about what they were doing. So
those kind of criteria made me say,
T want to help these students any
way I can.’”
Fang said PetQuest started out
as a hobby, but the team began to
consider developing a business after
meeting with Startup Aggieland.
She said he got involved with the
team when it first started out as vol
unteer group.
“George had this idea, about two
year's ago, and asked me if I was in
terested in doing the startup,” She
said. “He saw this problem that he
just mentioned and he asked me if I
knew how to build a website up, I
said, T don’t know how to do that,
but I can find people who can do
it.’”
Fang said Startup Aggieland fo
cused on creating a stable business
model to test ideas and promote
future success.
She said attempts at charging
money for the service have gone
well thus far, with around 45 per
cent of returning users willing to
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“Right now our model is kind
of a freemium,” She said. “You get
your first question for free but we
are going to charge the second and
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Shelby Kaowles — THE BATTALION
Xintao She (left) and George Fang (right) are the creators of
PetQuest.
following questions, it’s around $3
per question.”
Shelly Brenckman, market
ing coordinator with Startup Ag
gieland, said the biggest challenge
with the program was pitching it to
potential investors.
“The most recent, most impor
tant thing I’ve done with them in
the time that they’ve been here was
to help them get to Hong Kong to
pitch the Hong Kong business net
work,” Brenckman said. “We had
48 hours to help them find some
funding so that George could get
over there, they had very short no
tice.”
Fang said financial problems
arose when the team needed to
pitch its idea in person in Hong
Kong, but the Aggie network gave
PetQuest an advantage.
“Shelly helped us contact our for
mer president of Texas A&M, Dr.
Mobley, and he contacted another
person who is the friend of the Jack
Ma of Alibaba, that big company in
China,” Fang said. “He is a long ex
ecutive director of Alibaba before,
and he is a huge guy and he likes
our idea from the introduction of
Dr. Mobley then he said, ‘I’d like to
sponsor your trip’ and it gets funded
in two days.”
Fang said he hopes to use Pet
Quest to break into the market and
eventually create a system where he
can send pet owners specialized toys
and food based on the specific needs
of the pet on a monthly subscrip
tion basis.
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material
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compounds
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choir
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flowers
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(throw out)
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utensils
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movements
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vessels
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“against”
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kitchen or
luncheon
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macadamia nuts
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Cheddar's and Fish Daddy's now
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Child Care FT & PT shifts available.
Some nights & Saturdays
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