Advisor Name | Derek |
Problem Lab Advisor at UW | |
Date | Feb 2, 2022 7:15 PM to PM |
Type | BET 300 Class Session |
What I learned
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It is important to divide the roles well with Co-Founders.
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Co-Founder means more than colleague, friends, and so on.
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EF - Entrepreneur First
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Have Co-Founder matching program
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Good to apply right after graduation
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Market research can be done with no product
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Dropbox gathered customers and investors with short clip vidoe
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Talk with customers
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Has the customer admitted they have the same problem?
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Does the customer believe it should be solved?
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Have they tried to solve it before? Do they use your competitor?
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Capital raising
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Valley provides good investment opportunity in terms of effort and speed
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Grant will raise money inefficiently later on
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Every sentence for pitch needs to have opportunity or de-risk
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There are at least five people who have tried to solve your problem
