My Pre-Project Blog!

 Hi, my name is Jalen Suggs, and I'm going to be updating this blog to inform you all about my journey through my senior project. Throughout the next two weeks, my friend Quinn Petersen and me will be working with John Ours and Paragon, Inc. Paragon is a consulting firm that offers customer research, service design, content strategy, business systems, and many more services. While studying under Mr. Ours, Quinn and I will be learning the different methods and strategies that go into successfully running a business.

I realized that I wanted to participate in this project during my enrollment in an Entrepreneurial Studies class in the fall. In this class, I was briefly exposed to the interworking of being an entrepreneur and how to start a business. During our final project of the semester, I worked with Quinn on a start-up called Estim8. We hope Estim8 will be a scheduling service that takes information from students' homework assignments and plans their schedules to minimize procrastination. More specifically, Estim8 will organize students’ workload, their clubs and groups, their meetings and other obligations, and their free time through time estimation. If we can get our service up and running, Quinn and I will be able to provide students with the means to become more efficient workers with significantly less stressful lives.

Through the Hawken Project, I hope to gain knowledge and experience that will give me the chance to work with Quinn on possibly starting Estim8 after the project's conclusion. Our goal is to continue working on our project while truly seeing how a business runs in the real world.

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  1. Maria SteinerMay 16, 2022 at 6:57 AM

    It's a pretty amazing opportunity to learn from the Paragon professionals and to have time and space to develop your business idea! I'm sure the three weeks will fly by! Am excited to witness your progress!

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