NYX Resistance

Date: November 25, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM Location: EB 2110 Attending: Advisory Board Members: - Erik - Jonathon Team Members: - Ian (Facilitator) - Colby - Matt - Christa - Casey (Administration) Agenda: 1. Introduction 2. Supply Chain 3. Cash Flows

I was so inspired and excited about our class with Stephen Kenny today that I decided to immediately blog about it. First of all, lectures conducted by Stephen are always interesting. Stephen has a real way of capturing the attention of the room as well as presenting concepts in a way that is simplistic and interesting. The FCF (Free Cash Flow) spread sheet is a tool that

Soccer has been the fastest growing in Canada for many years now, and has even surpassed hockey in the number of participants. Even though soccer doesn't have as many professional teams in Canada in comparison to hockey or football, there is a definite upbringing of professional soccer teams in the NASL league or MSL league. This is a trend that nyx will have to follow closely

Healing taping- Kinesio Taping is a company and international organization that focuses on sports recovery through specific taping techniques. http://www.kinesiotaping.com/kinesio/index.htmlDr. Kase is a Japanese chiropractor and acupuncturist that has development a new technique to tape injuries to help the healing process and get athletes back into play faster. This technique

Perfect Posture- Intelliskin is a new product using a various resistance materials to force a better posture. http://www.intelliskin.net/ Intelliskin is using a similar idea to Nyx to achieve a different result. They are using various different resistance levels of material to correct posture. The shirt or sports bra forces you to sit straight with your shoulders back. This

Sports Academies- Investing in a child's education and their sports development is a recent international trend with specialized schools. http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b830/http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2mNbVa/www.australiansportsacademy.edu.au/Over the past couple decades sports development has become more and more important. Children's and parent's goals of getting to the Olympics

These are our 5 top picks: Jordan- Jordan’s pitch was engaging, showed a need and style. I understand the product. Adrian- Unique, engaging, good use of music, showed need but not really sure what it is that mido does. Justin- Like the integration of demonstrations and the format was unique. Can tell he spent time developing the concept. Madeline- Like the different format

According to a recent survey by statistics Canada, sport participation is declining among children. From the mid 1990's to about 2005, sport participation of boys between the ages of 5-14 has decreased from 66% to 56% in Canada. While girls participation has decreased from 49% to about 45%. This could have a major impact on the overall athletic industry, and obesity in Canada.

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This week we had an advisory meeting. In this meeting we wanted to cover electronic design of the prototype as well as webpage development. Jonathan has expertise in both categories so we decided that it would make sense to include his expertise in the advisory meeting and focus hard on technology content. For these reasons Jonathan was our only advisor at the advisory meeting

This week Barb and I worked on the prototype together. It was a lot of work and I could not have done it without her. Our ghetto mash up strategy was a good decision for our prototype development. I learned a lot about the design and requirements of the shirt by building it. There is a lot of redesign to do for the next and final prototype. One of the first issues of the

Upon completion of our companies SWOT analysis I was curious to see how external factors (economy etc.) were impacting some of our competitors growth this past year. According to The New York Times, Nike's revenues have increased by 15% this quarter and analysts are projecting steady growth over the next year. According the article, demand for Nike products have remained

This week Thursday we had our third Board of Advisors meeting. At this particular meeting we really focused on discussing future possibilities regarding the website and Casey presented the latest update on the prototype. To concluded the meeting, as a team we took a fairly in depth internal and external look at NYX by conducting a SWOT analysis. Conducting our SWOT analysis

This week was a huge learning curve. Our team got ambitious and registered our very own domain @ www.nyxresistance.com. Given that none of our team members are well versed in coding, we had a bit of an interesting time figuring things out. Fortunately one of our Board of Advisors (Jonathan) who has a history in coding, webdesign, and graphic design was kind enough to work

SWOT AnalysisThis week we had our third adviser meeting. We really wanted to focus on the development of the website, and our SWOT analysis. We tackled this really well together and spent a couple hours thoroughly going over each question. This is a great team and certainly gets into action when the time calls for

Been working on our individual pitches the past few days. It will be interested to see what each person comes up with on the Nyx team, what route they take, and how they present it. From what I have seen so far through all our group meetings, I can see that everyone sees Nyx a little differently. With the combination of all our pitches, I can see this as a great final pitch,

Date: November 10thTime: 1 pmLocation: Starbucks 37th streetAgenda:- Website design and functionality- Prototype design- SWOT analysisAttending:- Ian- Casey- Colby- Matt- Johnathan (advisory board member)Some issues we had since our last group meeting was our website. This is the reason why we only invited Johnathan to our meeting as he knows and understands website design

A British company has developed a new way to liquify fibers. This new liquified fabric comes straight out of an aerosol can and clings to anything it is sprayed on. These fibers once sprayed, dry, and form a snug fitting garment. The first spray on clothing fashion show took place this year. This is a very interesting twist on clothing, but I definitely dont see nyx going

A lady by the name of Suzanne Lee has invented a new fabric made from bacteria. According to the report this fabric is almost skin like with a combination of silk. This fabric can easily be custom molded or sewn into existing fabric. Fabric technology is going to be probably the largest factor with the development of the nyx prototype. It is important for us to stay on top

This week will have to be very productive. Our advisory board meetings are a week behind, because we had some communication issues, so this means we are having a meeting this Thursday, November 8. This is our reading day so we are having it off campus, and with only 2 of our advisors as I mentioned in my last post. But we have lots of other things on our plate, as we have

This week we had the opportunity to see the prototype that Barb and Casey developed. They did an amazing job! It looks really good and feels like it has a lot of resistance. Ian is going to play a game of hockey in it, and report back on how it felt, if there was increased resistance or more sore then normal. We also moved forward with the development of our website by

Paraplegics are now able to walk with this new assisted exoskeleton system for their legs. This new invention contains artificial intelligence that is able to read the users gestures such as arm movements. It was originally taken from the military designs that allowed soldiers to strap on heavier back packs. This system should be available to physio therapy clinics and rehabilitation