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Contents
Prelude 3
Who is who
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I Week plan
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Day 1: July 6
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Day 2: July 7
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Day 3: July 8
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Day 4: July 9
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Day 5: July 10
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Weekend 17
II Week Plan
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Day 6: July 13
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Day 7: July 14
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Day 8: July 15
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Day 9: July 16
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Day 10: July 17
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Weekend 27
III Week Plan
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Day 11: July 20
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Day 12: July 21
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Day 13: July 22
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Day 14: July 23
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Day 15: July 24
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Epilogue 35
Thank you
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Prelude
You need to choose a big problem.
Build your story!
Design a unique experience users never dreamt of.
Discover a customer & addictive solution that is scalable!
You will survive only if you act as a team!
Find shortcuts, copy, use existing resources to be agile.
Act like a guerrilla warrior, resources are scarce.
Engage mentors to solve the big problem.
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Who is who?
CEO
I am
a leadership
ninja!
CMO
I am the
growth hacker!
Chief Mentor
IT Mentor
CDO
My design is
a marriage
of UI and UX!
Design Mentor
CBO
CTO
My innovative
business
model turns
idea into
value!
Marketing Mentor
I develop apps
like Instagram
in just 1 day!
IP Lawyer
Investor
Week I
Team Formation
Day 1
CEO
Problem-Solution Fit
Day 2
Product-Market Fit
Day 3
Prototype
Day 4
Hackathon Plan
Day 5
CMO
CDO
CBO
CTO
Team members roles, names, daily tasks
To Design Mentors:
To IT Mentors:
Day 1: Monday
I WEEK
The Trello app to organize TO DO lists (free mobile & web app)
EIA Platform (find and confirm your team, meet your mentor)
Test your team with LEGO bricks (next page)
First week plan template (previous page)
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Time:
1. Split your team into 2 groups (2-3 people per group). Both groups, choose
your place in the room so that you would be as far from each other as
possible.
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2. Once you receive the LEGO model picture from your Mentors - KEEP IT
HIDDEN from anybody else!
3. With your group, write instructions for your team members for building
the LEGO model that you see in the picture. No drawing, taking a photo
etc is allowed!
4. After your Mentors have notified you, give your instructions to your team
members in the other group, and receive their instructions from them.
5. Build the LEGO model, following the instructions from your team
members.
6. After finalizing your model, present and explain your work process and
choices to the Mentors for their feedback and debrief comments.
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I WEEK
I WEEK
Day 2: Tuesday
Tools:
CUSTOMER SEGMENTS
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
Tasks:
In Ideation Session:
Use Post-it Notes to describe your Customer Persona (template
next page)
Use Post-it Notes with your team to describe your customers
problems & your solutions (Lean Canvas)!
Alternatively, to get all key elements of the Lean Canvas on paper
quickly and assess them fast, use EIA Idea Cards
Prioritize problems of your customers (template next page)
Select the problem with the highest score to build your solution
on top of it (template next page)
I WEEK
Design Your Customer Persona
Persona Overview
Key characteristics
Age
Gender
Goals
Needs
Key influencers
Other applications
Feature requests
Customer segment
Customer
problems, pains
Does failing
the job lead
to extreme
problems?
Are there
unresolved
problems,
jobs?
Important
Tangible
Unsatisfied
Are there
Focus on the
many with highest value
that problem jobs & related
& ready to
problems.
pay?
Lucrative
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Total score
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2.
3.
4.
Day 2: Tuesday
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Test Name:
Tools:
Google Trend
Google Adwords Keyword Planner
Instapage
Experiment workflow:
Design Test & Learning Cards (each test separately)
Run the tests (e.g. customer contacts, Google Trends, Keywords Planner, Ads, etc.)
Update the Lean Canvas & landing page on EIA Platform
NB! You are free to organize the experiments on any other social media (LinkedIn,
Twitter) and ad platform (Facebook, etc) that you are familiar with or that is more
suitable for your solution.
Download the Test & Learning card here
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Day 2: Tuesday
I WEEK
I WEEK
Day 3: Wednesday
Tasks:
Find the strongest fit between different markets & your solution
(products):
List 3 different customer segments (markets) for your solution.
Use Post-it Notes to describe the markets on the Lean Canvas!
Analyze the business opportunity of each market (scalability)
& prioritize the markets
Find the market where the fit with your solution is the
strongest
If you find a weak fit or no scalability consider to pivot, change
your solution
Tools:
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
CUSTEMER SEGMENTS
MARKET
KEY METRICS
EXISTING ALTERNATIVES
CHANNELS
MARKET
HIGH-LEVEL CONCEPT
COST STRUCTURE
REVENUE STREAMS
MARKET
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Test Name:
Tests:
Google Trends to collect data about what people search for
Design a Test & Learning card
Watson Analytics to analyze different markets
Design a Test & Learning card
Learning:
Different markets have different scalability opportunities
Finding out which users make the fit market
By the end of Wednesday, you still might have alternative solutions
to choose from. Thats great, but its also a problem, because you cant
prototype many solutions on Thursday. You have to narrow down and make
tough decisions. To prepare for Thursday, choose one Customer Persona
and think of possible user scenarios for the prototyping.
Day 3: Wednesday
I WEEK
Day 4: Thursday
I WEEK
Tasks:
1. Paper Prototype:
Draw a storyboard a scenario of when and how your customer is
using your product (use Postit-it Notes)
Choose max 1-2 features that you want to test with your prototype
Use paper UI elements to design your solution (based on your
storyboard and chosen features)
Start testing your prototype with customers immediately, continue
over the coming weekend
2. Digital Prototype:
Select tools based on your needs & skills:
POP for mobile apps super easy mobile app to scan paper screens
and make first clickable prototype in your mobile
Proto.io - simple but more serious solution for web and mobile
prototypes. Click here for EIA participant access.
Appery.io - start designing apps with some code attached, build
mobile back-ends later
Google Material Design professional source for designers
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Day 5: Friday
I WEEK
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I WEEK
Day 5: Friday
Goal
Expected result
Survivable result
Friday
Our X app
Reference app & sources
Development roadmap features, priorities, path/ technology
Split responsibilities
Project management set up
Team has a plan where to start, with help of mentors the tools they are capable of working with are
chosen.
Weekend
Validate prototype
Monday
MVP 1.1 concept
(after customer development)
Tuesday
50% functionality
Last chance to pivot
Back-end working
Logo sketches
Landing page in progress
30% functionality
Wednesday
70% functionality
Landing page up
Clickable mock-up
50% functionality
Thursday
App ready to upload by evening,
bug testing
80% functionality
Friday
Preparing for final demo
* Make your decision together with mentors when to upload and launch your app
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Weekend
I WEEK
Week II
CEO
Customer Engagement
Day 7
Revenue Model
Day 8
Marketing Campaign
Day 9
Launch Day
Day 10
CMO
CDO
CBO
CTO
Team members roles, names, daily tasks
To Design Mentors:
How we design a unique UI/UX?
To IT Mentors:
To Marketing Mentors:
How to get first 1000 customers?
II WEEK
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II WEEK
Day 6: Monday
1. Switching Costs
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2. Recurring Revenues
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I earn 100% of my revenues before incurring costs of goods &services sold (COGs)
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All the value created in my business model is created for free by external parties
6. Scalability
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II WEEK
Day 7: Tuesday
Tasks:
Build you digital marketing strategy
Design your strategy before you visit your marketing mentor
Visit your marketing mentor to discuss your startegy
Upload the picture of the strategy on EIA platform tonight
WHAT
WHO
Go-TO-Market
HOW
How will you reach your
target market?
WHERE
Where will you promote your
product?
Content Marketing
Design & run your campaign (see template next page)
Email marketing
Download the templates here to design & run your campaign
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Day 7: Tuesday
II WEEK
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II WEEK
Day 7: Tuesday
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II WEEK
Day 8: Wednesday
PROBLEM
SOLUTION
UNIQUE VALUE
PROPOSITION
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
CUSTEMER SEGMENTS
Tasks:
Design unique revenue model which will give you high growth
Test your customers how easily are they ready to pay for the product
Ask about the price during your customer interviews
Tools:
Download revenue model template here from the daily lecture
Update revenue model in your Lean Canvas on EIA Platform
KEY METRICS
CHANNELS
EXISTING
ALTERNATIVES
HIGH-LEVEL CONCEPT
COST STRUCTURE
REVENUE STREAMS
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Day 9: Thursday
II WEEK
Tasks:
Design a Google Adwords campaign for your application*
You can apply financing for your campaign here
Upload the final version of your video if it is recommended by
your marketing mentor.
Finalize & upload your marketing campaign on EIA Platform
tonight
Tools:
* You are free to use any other digital marketing platform more suitable for your
marketing campaign.
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II WEEK
Tasks:
Use all your resources, shortcuts to launch your application
Start your marketing campaign to find your first 1000 customers
Tools:
Google Analytics
IBM Message Resonance
Tips:
6 Must-Have Tools For Your Web or Mobile App Launch Yottaa
6 ways to get your first 1000 customers Medium
10 steps for successful launch Fast Company
Weekend
II WEEK
Week III
CEO
Market Traction
Day 11
IP & Finance
Day 12
Startup Funding
Day 13
Demo Day
Day 15
CMO
CDO
CBO
CTO
Team members roles, names, daily tasks
To Marketing Mentors:
To IP Lawyers:
To Investor:
III WEEK
Tasks:
1. Customer engagement
Adjust your customer engagement campaign
Discuss the campaign with your Marketing Mentor
How 23 Web & Mobile Startups Got Their First Users Autosend
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III WEEK
Trade Marks
Registered
Design rights
Copyright
What is
Protected?
Inventions
Brand
Identity,
icluding
words
& logos
What the
product
looks like
Music, art,
film, literary
works &
broadcasts
How long?
Up to 20
years
(subject to
annual
renewal)
Forever
(renewals
every
10 years)
Up to
25 years
Life plus 70
years (sound
broadcasts are
50 years)
What does
it protect
against?
Your idea
being used,
sold or
manufactured
Your product
being
manufactured,
sold or
imported
Your work
being copied
or reproduced
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III WEEK
2. IP Protection Strategy
Why and how to protect the critical aspects of your IP in the early stages of
your company development?
All startups need to think not only about patenting their solution, but
of their employees, contractors and suppliers, customers, and possible
partners as part of their IP strategy.
Define the strategy to protect your solution (max 1 page) & upload it
on EIA platform tonight
Integrate your IP strategy into your pitch to secure funding
IP Strategy for Startups Ipstrategy
Startup Intellectual Property Tips Forbes
Tasks:
1.Define Financial Metrics
Identify the most relevant financial metrics for your startup
Calculate the chosen financial metrics and integrate them into your
pitch deck
No Accounting for Startups Steve Blank
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III WEEK
3. Pitch deck:
Finalise your pitch deck
Upload your pitch deck on EIA platform tonight!
The 5 P-s are the content of any good pitch!
Problem - is there a real problem
Promise - is there a real solution
Proof - why would I believe you
Profit - I will make money by...
Passion - Ill do whatever it takes!
The Ultimate Pitch Deck Forbes
Leases
Start a crowdfunding campaign online
Tasks:
1. Funding
Define the plan to acquire funding for your business on max 1 page
Explain how you will finance the growth of your business,
Upload the plan on EIA platform tonight
7 ways to fund your startup
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III WEEK
Customers count:
Make the final count of your customers (users, downloads,
subscriptions, agreements, etc)
Upload today the final proof document of the number of customers
(screenshot, tracking log, email, etc) on EIA Platform no later than
23.59!
Proven market traction will be considered a criterion in the Top 10
finalists selection
Tasks - VCC:
Upload your pitch deck in PDF format to the EIA Platform before 9:00
am
Pitch to other teams based on your time slot
Evaluate other pitches from a VC investor perspective
Select one team you want to invest in
Prepare a term sheet from the draft and upload to the EIA Platform
Negotiate terms with the selected team at your time slot
Participate in negotiations as an entrepreneur, if selected
Tools
Download all documents you need for VCC here
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III WEEK
Tasks:
Pitch like a Boss & raise the money!
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Epilogue
Now go and make it all happen!
Use the start-up capital wisely for scaling and leveling up your business.
It still remains mainly about the team!
Leverage your early customers to move from MVP to the next level.
Keep and grow your network of mentors, advisors and supporters.
Use the expertise of your investors.
You dreamt big - now dream even bigger!
Thank You!
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