Schedule
Zoom link for lectures: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69384312474
Any changes will be announced in the forums.| Sprint | Week | Date | Description | Assignment | |
1 | 2 | Tuesday 12.1. | Introduction to Startup Experience and course practicalities | ||
| 2 | Wednesday 13.1. | Team formation - interviews / intro for team formation | |||
| 2 | Thursday 14.1. | What is a startup? How to validate a business idea? Presenting user research, the concept of MVP, experimentation? | |||
| 3 | Tuesday 19.1. | Team track | |||
| 3 | Thursday 21.1. | Innovation 7 domain models | |||
2 | 4 | Tuesday 26.1. | Team track 2 | Deadline for assignments | |
| 4 | Thursday 28.1. | Ideation workshop / Problem first / Value proposition canvas | |||
| 5 | Tuesday 2.2. | How to validate the problem? | |||
| 5 | Thursday 4.2. | PROBLEM PRESENTATION (2 problems, who? what? why?) | |||
3 | 6 | Tuesday 9.2. | Data Analysis 1. & Micro-level market assessment - a.Target market’s pain identified |
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| 6 | Thursday 11.2. | Pitch training | |||
| 7 | Tuesday 16.2. | Data Analysis 2. Micro-level market assessment continues | |||
| 7 | Thursday 18.2. | PROBLEM PITCH | |||
| WINTER HOLIDAY 22-26.2.2020 | 8 / EXAM WEEK | TEAM BUILDING WEEK - TEAM TRACK SESSION (NO TEACHING (teachers on holiday) | |||
4 | 9 | Tuesday 2.3. | Macro-level market assessment / Market estimation / Product-Market Fit | Deadline for assignments | |
| 9 | Thursday 4.3. | Business Model / Disruption? / Unite Economy | |||
| 10 | Tuesday 9.3. | Marketing & Sales (next Thursday cash flow ) | |||
| 10 | Thursday 11.3. | SPRINT 4 | CONCEPT PITCH (PROBLEM + SOLUTION, Problem-Solution Fit) | |||
5 | 11 | Tuesday 16.3. | Finance/ Investment, part 1. |
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| 11 | Thursday 18.3. | Finance / cost structure, budgeting (cap table) | |||
| 12 | Tuesday 23.3. | Finance / negotations? | |||
| 12 | Thursday 25.3. | PITCH 3. BUSINESS MODEL PITCH (inc. Finance) | |||
6 | 13 | Tuesday 30.3. | Checklist for startups, like important documents (shareholder agreement, company bylaws), ecosystem |
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| 13 | Thursday 1.4. | TBA | |||
| 14 | Tuesday 6.4. | Easter - no session | |||
| 14 | Thursday 8.4. | PITCH 4. REHEARSAL PITCH / VIDEO | |||
| EXAM WEEK | 15 | Tuesday 13.4. | FINAL PITCHES - Public Event - | ||
| Team track - wrap up | |||||
| Individual Exams | |||||
| 15.4.2002 SE ENDS |