Speed Dating and World-Cafe Methodologies

Speed Dating is an easy and a cheap way to understand more about your start up company. In a group of 4 to 5 individuals you have the opportunity to learn more about what you do and what you should change to become your idea successful. Participating in this methodology, is a very useful and interactive experience for every start up.

To start with, our start up company is “PhiloxeniAthens”. Five girls guides tourists in Athens. The innovative element of our company is that we prepare a dialy schedule for tourists, according to their needs and their budget. We don’t have specific forms for all groups. But the most innovative aspect of our idea is that, as a team, we want for our customers to explore Greek lifestyle in depth and live as local citizens. We don’t guide them only in well-known landmarks like other travel agents.

By pitching to peers in a fast way give us the opportunity to understand, which are the main points of our idea. Moreover, by pitching to different peers-students we can coprehend if our idea is clear in public, or if there are some dark sides of it. When we responded to others questions, we had the chance to understand if there are problems in our start up company and we earned a very useful feedback . In the other side, when we asked critical questions and gave feedback to our peers, we could compare others idea with ours and we could find points we should improve in our start up. In the end, as observers, we- maybe- earned new elements for our idea that could make it better.

By Speed Dating and World-Cafe Methodologies, as a start up company, we took useful feedback, that can improve our idea and make it more valuable and competitive.