1) I am Leigha Hinds and I am a junior at the University of Florida doing a combined Master's and Bachelor's degree in Sports Management. I aspire to work for the marketing department of a professional football or basketball team in the future. With this business adventure I want to give sporting fans what they have always hoped and dreamed for; a place to have scores of all sporting events from high school to professional.
2) I am creating an app called SSN (Scores, Statistics, Now) for consumers that are huge sporting fans. At the beginning of this venture I want to locate it in just the United States. I hope for the app to offer an on the go, push of the button, way for fans to get scores and statistics of their favorite teams and players at the high school, collegiate, and professional level.
3) I am offering this to huge sports fans that have smartphones. While the demographic of sports fans tends to lean more towards males, the app is accessible for females and males. It would be giving the statistics of professional and collegiate athletes along with the scores of high school, collegiate and professional teams. It overall can be used by anyone that is a sports fan.
4) Customers that are true sports fans and tired of having to google or go to multiple websites to find out this information will have a much easier way to get all the sporting information they have ever hoped for.
5) At the beginning of the app I will only be following collegiate and professional athletes and teams. As the app gets more use and I am able to obtain staff in all parts of the country I will then move to adding high school sports. As time progresses, I hope to then bring the app international.
I believe that all of these elements fit well together. A true sports fan will find all of this information to be beneficial that it is all at the click of a single app. I feel that in the long run when I have the capability of having high school and international sports, I will truly be differentiated from ESPN and Bleacher Report.
The top five things I received from feedback that I put into this idea napkin were:
-obtaining regional staff to help with high school sports
-moving to international sports after a while
-not being super focused on statistics of high school athletes
-showing that involving high school sports will differentiate me from ESPN and Bleacher Report
-making it more known that this app can be the single spot for all information, eliminating the need to google and check multiple websites for information on sports
My family and I are huge sports fans an we are always talking statistics and players and looking things up so an app like this for my family would be so convenient. I think this would be a huge hit in the U.S., our country loves sports of all kind so anything sports related becomes successful.
ReplyDeleteHey Rachel I really like your sports app idea because I am a huge sports fanatic but my question is how is this app different from ESPN or any app like that? The only way you could really make it different was if you had high school stats and what not but that is data that is very hard to find unless you have representatives taking notes and stats down. I like the idea but there is definitely more thought needed for this. Check mine out! http://gerb95.blogspot.com/2016/03/idea-napkin-no-2.html
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