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How to prepare and what is expected
Showcase Day Presentations
The showcase will be held in a slightly larger classroom (not yet assigned)
The audience will be your classmates and anyone else you want to invite
You should wear “business casual”, no ties or dresses required.
Whatever you feel comfortable with.
There will be a panel of Judges to listen and comment on the presentations
I will determine the order at the last minute
The Judges will give their feedback and rank the products
But, your grade will be based on much more than that.
Given the time you should probably not have more than 10 slides
Below are a long list of possible topics to give you inspiration.
You can’t use them all! Really! Don’t try. It’s just to give you ideas.
Idas for slides (in alphabetical order)
Customer story or scenario
Data collected
Demo of your product or service, including a scenario or story
Elevator pitch?
How does our product or service make the pain go away?
Hypotheses?
If we had more time?
Job the product is doing for the customer? How did the customer do it before? How will they do it now?
Market segment, is it really a segment? Do people here talk to each other? Do they have similar requirements? Can I reach them the same way?
Mockups and/or prototypes
MVPs tried? Especially good if
One or two sided market? If two sided,how do you expect to reach both of them? In what order?
Pivots undertaken. This is interesting especially if it demonstrates that you were disciplined in following where the research led you and didn’t stick to a plan that didn’t work.
Problem being solved, pain being relieved? In what way is it crucial for the customer? How do we know?
What is the ONE THING? Demonstrate that you chose one specific problem to solve and really solved it. Show focus.
What is the product or service? You would be surprised how often it happens that at the end of the presentation the audience looks at each other and say: “I don’t understand what the product is!” Keep it simple and clear.
Who is on the team? Photos? Names? Email Addresses?
Welcome
2018 Syllabus
Calendar of Lectures and homeworks
Resources
Lectures
Pilot Project
Welcome!
Lean Startup
Hypotheses
Working on Teams
MVP
Guest Lecture: Michael Skok
Pilot Project Conclusion
Term Project: Startup
Welcome to Term Projects!
Build Measure Learn
Project Planning
The Pivot
The Engine of Growth
Mockups & Prototypes
Testing Techniques
Term Project: Product
Product Market Fit
Jeffrey Beir: Metrics
Business Models
Pricing Models
Andy Payne: Startup Finance
Intellectual Property
Term Project: Business
Finance for Geeks
Founding a company
Real World Survival Kit
Management and Leadership
Dulcie Madden: Startup Teams
Last day converstation
Term Project
Term Project Outline
Minimum Viable Product Info
Hypotheses
Final Presentations
Background
Learning Goals
Grading
Teachers
Lexicon
Interesting links
Credits and acknowledgements