What happens when you ask your network for help? Here’s the first thing I learned when teaching Lean LaunchPad at NYU ITP. The structure and blueprint as taught at Stanford was essential to strengthening the ecosystem: a large group of Advisors as lecturers and helpful participants, and individual Mentors assigned to each team. The Mentor
Pitch Workshops: NYU ITP Pitchfest, 2013 Over the past four+ years NYU ITP has organized increasingly successful Investor Pitchfest to showcase startup team ideas worthy of funder consideration and attention. We’ve benefitted from active participation of leading NYC angels and VCs and this year we have confirmed Joanne Wilson, GothamGal, Andy Weissman of Union Square
First – we’re excited for next week’s lessons learned session – here are the recommendations for both the video and presentation from class 9’s slideshare. Thank you Peter Fusco of Lowenstein Sandler, for braving broken ribs to teach us about the essentials of startup law, having seen 480+ pre Series A companies: (thanks to John
Thanks to the Drip.fm and Ghostly founding team – Sam and Miguel for telling their story as it is unfolding. And to Corie Hardee telling us about what it took to get Little Borrowed Dress off the ground, from deconstructing the dress making industry, finding pattern makers, and the value of Net Promoter Score in determining
Thanks so much to our guest speakers – Ben Borodach founder of Hublished and Michal Krasnodebski at Shutterstock. From Ben we learned about the software selling cycle of enterprise, and useful tips for how to A/B test everything, even LinkedIn outreach.Lean From Michal we saw how Shutterstock experiments with new product types to fit key personas, and then
We’re now in development towards MVP mode – all but one team has validated the primary segment and are deep in prototyping, building, and validating. We had Leah Hunter from CCA, Fast Co in to tell us about ethnography methods, and the common ground between Bay Area and NYC startup ecosystems.
Revenue Models, Distribution Models, revenue workshop. Guest speaker: Phoebe Espiritu.
Customer Development – Pain-driven design, getting underneath the obvious truths and into the dark matter of need.
Intros, overview, and Customer Development the ITP way
I’ll be teaching Lean LaunchPad at ITP this spring with Josh Knowles – thanks to all mentors and advisors who have signed up. Still looking for more – local and virtual. We embrace a creative, iterative, and collaborative approach to making things — but launching a product out into the world takes a somewhat different