NYU ITP
Business 101.1 NYU ITP: Values, Value Proposition, and The Future of Business
We recently covered competing value proposition mental models as they relate to The Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup. Business 101.1 class 4 from Jennifer van der Meer We also took a pause to uncover the core motivations, values, and inherent friction in starting a social purpose-driven company. Business 101.1 class 5 from Jennifer van der Meer And customer relationships, customer channels, and running your first test: Business 101.1 class 6 Read More
NYU ITP Business 101.1 Innovation + Entrepreneurship
NYU ITP Fall Semester This course is about understanding the levers that drive business, and learning how to turn them into your favor. You will learn through experience and work in teams to develop a concept from the generation of an idea to launch or market test. Warning: the course involves a field work commitment of 5-6 hours per team per week. Much of the work of business model innovation Read More
Lean at ITP Workshop 2016
Changing to a workshop format this year to scale it up! What: Lean @ ITP When: Two weeks in January, 11-22 Location: NYU ITP 421 Waverly 4th Floor We embrace a creative, iterative, and collaborative approach to making things — but launching a product out into the world takes a somewhat different set of skills. How does one make sure people want to use what they make? How does one figure out how Read More
NYU ITP Pitchfest #5: Antidotes to a Technical Culture
5th Annual NYU ITP Pitchfest 2015 Design for self assembly. Connected jewelry for brilliant moments. A replacement for wasteful packaging. Assistive Kitchen tools. Apps for enhancing relationships and serendipitous encounters. Discovery and peer review apps for emerging performing arts. It may be possible for technology innovation to more genuinely connect us to each other. Each year at the NYU ITP Pitchfest, a workshop series and Pitch event to leading investors Read More
NYU ITP Pitchfest Workshop 1
June 1: 2015 Why we do this Get an audience outside of the cozy world of ITP Thesis feedback Respond to genuine interest from investors Help you understand how to launch ideas that just need to exist in the world Which means we’ve expanded our aim – we are not just seeking high growth, high scale companies. We welcome everyone that has a compelling concept What we need from you Read More
Selling Science: Applying Lean at the NSF I-Corps
Published at the NYU Entrepreneurs Blog Part 1 and Part 2. — Lessons Learned at the NSF’s I-Corps for Learning program: “Parents didn’t even know what STEM was, nor STEAM!” exclaimed a conference participant. Similar concerns could be heard from many of the academic and entrepreneurial educators this April, streaming out of the San Francisco Marriott after their first few days in windowless meeting rooms and actually talking to parents – Read More
NYU ITP Pitchfest 2015
Workshop Series: What is your concept. Your idea. Your project. Pitch your Idea for support and feedback: Workshops, Practice Pitch Prep, and Pitch Festival. Adjunct Professor: Jen van der Meer Background: Over the past five+ years NYU ITP has organized increasingly successful Investor Pitchfest to showcase startup team ideas worthy of funder consideration and attention. Prior Judges for Pitchfest have included Joanne Wilson and Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), Andy Read More
Favorite Lessons Learned from Lean at ITP Speakers
We just wrapped up our second Lean experiment at ITP last night with a Lessons Learned dinner party. We had extraordinarily candid speakers this semester who humbly told us of their successes and failures, pivots and turnarounds, origin stories and the truth behind their funding and scale. A few of my favorite wisdom pickings from the line up of guest speakers: Britta Riley: Know the contours and flows of the Read More