Today was a day for thinking about what my STEM capstone would be about. It took me awhile to come up with my first of three prospective ideas, but after thinking for awhile an idea that I thought would be really cool came to me. That idea was an app, an app that could be used for prospective small businessmen to connect with each other about their startups and to connect with possible investors. I researched several sites, mostly sites on how to create apps and then several ones about how entrepreneurs connect with one another. After about an hour of researching these sites I realized that currently there are about nine websites, that have a strong flow of traffic, that are used primarily to connect prospective businesses. I also found that designing an app takes a lot of skill and training that I would not have been able to learn in the amount of time we had. Despite the outcomes of this research I still have an interest in doing something related to business for my STEM project. I am also wondering, because of this research, how well do small businesses develop and what key things lead to businesses succeeding or failing. Maybe I will research that next, so todays research was definitely not a waste of time.