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January 26, 2009
Four Days + Four Nights = Six Businesses
Prof. Karl Ulrich's Fast-Paced Wharton West Workshop Enables New Learning and a Real Venture
For many busy people, it can be hard to find time for things like getting a haircut or an oil change much less making the calls to schedule those appointments.
However, an online personal concierge could take care of that problem by arranging all types of necessary services. The Web site would sort the services by location, price, availability, and reviews. Think Opentable.com, but for all parts of your life.
That's how second-year West Coast executive MBA student Chi Nguyen describes her business concept, which was selected by her classmates as one of the top six ideas in a recent Wharton workshop-based course on the "Development of Web-Based Services." So far, it's not just her peers that like the idea. A lot of the people who viewed a prototype Web site provided positive feedback, saying they would use this type of service every day. Read full article
See video coverage of the workshop.
This article is from the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program's Get It Started newsletter.
Read more about Prof. Ulrich's workshop in the Wharton EMBA Blog post, Web-Based Services Workshop at Wharton West an 'Intense' Experience."
