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Our pitching is tomorrow, 13th October 2009.

Will it be a reality check for us? Or will it be a turning point in my life?

Practiced with Spencer and May on Sunday. Props! Thanks guys for scrutinizing...No mercy!

Agenda tomorrow:

9am - 'Other' work's chores
10:30am - Brunch with Shum at Old Town
11:30am - Let MDeC know we are there (Berlian Room)
11:30am - 12:29pm - Prance around, kan cheong, poking Shum (prolly), formalities with other participants and MDeC staff
12:30pm - 1:00pm - Presentation!
1:00pm onwards - Sulk? Demured? Or happy and joyful?

Shum - Smell like roses? Or crash and burn?

Resubmitted the application for batch 20 with the advised changes from our advisor.  Thanks for that!

Hopefully, we can get an interview.

In the mean time, the war has not yet won.  Next step:

- Get LOI from our vendor
- Get LOI from our supplier

And then, if we were called to the pre seed's interview, we get a stronger chance of being approved.

Hit a snag on our Pre Seed application.  Our advisor bounced back with some comments on our application form and we need to fix it quick.  Final day of submission is on 8th Sept 2009!

One question: What is the difference between Proof of Concept and Prototype?

Googling doesn't help as there are a lot of opinions out there but here goes:

Proof of Concept
The evidence that a product, technology or an information system is viable and capable of solving an organization's particular problem. A proof of concept is often developed for new products that have not yet come to market.

Prototype
1. An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
2. An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
3. An early, typical example.
 
Awfully close isn't it? But what is clear to me:
 
Proof of concept - to show that it CAN BE done and it is a viable solution
 
Prototype - ALREADY KNOW it can be done, this is the first crude model with a lot of placeholders/temporary finishings
 
What do you think?

28th Aug 2009

Shum and I submitted our application form at MMU's incubator (now named TeCC).

The submission date was from 24nd August to 9th September and when we submitted, there's already 2 submissions ahead of us.

Our project will be a mobile VAS (value added service) and we put in a lot of effort fleshing out the details and such.

Hope we can get in!

For those who need more info on the pre seed grant, go here: http://www.technopreneurdevelopment.net.my/cms/AllProduct.asp?CatID=122