Venture Design Workshop (private)

This is a workshop for Swiss students of entrepreneurship visiting Silicon Valley on a study tour. Participants will learn to use design-thinking, Lean Startup, and agile to structure and test their new business idea.  By the end, students will understand how to determine if their idea is worth the further investment of their time as well as a repeatable process to create new products and ventures.

PRODUCT DESIGN & VALIDATION

Successful ventures are built on:

• A strong foundation understanding of the customer
• Adaptive progress to product and promotion that works

In this session you’ll learn actionable practices from the discipline of design thinking, Lean Startup and customer discovery. The use of customer discovery and rapid iteration is at the heart of today’s most successful ventures.

TAKEAWAYS

• Hands-on experience using personas to focus your understanding of the customer
• How to create a day-in-the-life board for your persona
• Use of storyboards to operationalize, present, and test your understanding of customer habits and actions
• Techniques to interview customers & draw conclusions
• Ability to structure the uncertainty in a new venture or project into testable assumptions
• Use of the Business Model Canvas to draft, discuss, present and test a business model

RELATED MATERIALS

For more on the process of Venture Design, please see Venture Design page.

For more on workshops and materials, please see the Online Workshops page.

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