$20 Boss
$20 Boss is a school project where students lead their own business and sell their products at a school market. My experience was overall positive but there was ups and downs along the way. All Saints College invested in 15+ business and helped our companies to succeed. My business was called ‘Flip It’ and included Raphie Benjamen and Jasmine Kooner. We made recycled second-hand clothes and changed them into different items.
Capabilities
The capabilities I used during $20Boss was organisation and resilience. I needed to use organisation because the group needed to do work out of school and use my time wisely during innovative classes, I used organisation by making lists and a scrum for the group. I also needed resilience in my group as I needed to trust my group and be patient. I also needed to use resilience when my group didn’t sell as much as we were expecting.
Obstacles
The obstacles I faced was my group not selling as much as we thought in the school market. We overcame this by being positive and accepting the fact that the market might not be the right people and our show case of products could improve.
Process
The process of Flip It started with completing a design script worksheet which included target audiences, competition in markets, problem and brainstorming of ideas. After we got our certificate we brainstormed ideas on our proper business idea, my group went through skincare products and food ideas until we agreed on the idea of upcycling clothes. We got our idea approved and collected inspiration for the clothes we wanted to create. I created a scrum for the group to plot our steps on making Flip It succeed. I completed the surveys and the pitch to get our school loan. We worked on the products and it became a buisness and we sold at the All Saints market. We made $28.50 at the market by selling mostly scrunchie and bags.
Summary
Overall I was happy with the lessons and experiences of the $20Boss and would like to use my skills in other innovative activities, like creativeness and organisation. I can use this in the Salvation Café because I will need to create out of the box ideas and will need to be organised and keep on track of the work I will need to do.