Validation 2020

What

This is the culminating module for New Venture Development. Teams compile all of their lean startup assumptions, customer personas, solution sketches, "journey maps" (aka "maps), customer discovery interview notes, and feedback on your MVP into a story you tell the rest of the class.

Questions to consider:

  • How much value have we as a team built into this idea?

  • How much more valuable is this opportunity (and by extension your new venture) NOW than it was when you first had the idea?

  • What opportunities did we find and take advantage of to learn things we didn't know?

  • What opportunities did we not get that we would have liked to answer more questions?

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Armstrong Lecture on Early-Stage Valuation 11/3/2020


Armstrong Lecture on Friends and Family Investing 11/5/2020

See also this full page on Friends and Family investing for New Venture Finance

What Have We Learned? End-of-semester lecture

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Validation Assessment Activity

Instructions Sheet

Validation Assessment Activity

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