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Syllabus
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- Intro
- Our idea culture
- Factuality vs facticity
- Problems vs solutions
- Idea narratives: why, what, wha?
- Why "ideas are cheap", and why ideas aren’t cheap
- Uni, tags, and details (see the glossary)
- Where ideas come from
- Product and markets, existing and speculative
- This class: existing markets
- ineedthis
- youneedthis
- Exercise: ineedthis ideation
- Critical thinking
- Quizzes
- Red tape
- Course wiki
- Time commitment
- Grades
- Policies
- Critical thinking exercise
- Idea highlights
- Where ideas come from
- This class: speculative markets
- mything
- whatsnew
- sameold
- This class: speculative markets
- Critiquing and improving startup ideas
- This class: bigness
- Bigger detail (see product potential radar graph)
- How to critique
- Threat vs embrace
- Angel detail
- Devil detail
- What If detail
- This class: bigness
- Exercise: Angel and Devil critique
- Critical thinking exercise
- Idea highlights
- Where ideas come from
- This class: existing products
- remove
- replace
- redefine
- relate
- vcbait
- This class: existing products
- Exercise: redefine vcbait ideation
- Critical thinking exercise
- Idea highlights
- Critiquing and improving startup ideas
- Reasons why startups fail, among others
- Bad market
- Wrong product
- Bad product
- Bad timing
- This week: timing
- Why Now detail
- Reasons why startups fail, among others
- How to pull together a great team
- Attributes of well-composed and highly-competitive teams
- What investors are looking for in great teams and founders
- How to attract complementary teammates
- Review of team formation and startup idea rules for Startup Studio
- Types of startups
- growth
- value
- purpose
- Exercise: teaming
- Critical thinking exercise
- Idea highlights
- Where ideas come from
- This class: speculative products
- technologyinsearchofaproblem
- featureinsearchofaproduct
- rememberwhen
- This class: speculative products
- Critiquing and improving startup ideas
- This week: novelty
- Disruptive detail
- Comparable detail
- Is It Possible detail
- Desirable detail
- This week: novelty
- Exercise: Disruptive "new who" critique
- Critical thinking exercise
- Idea highlights
- Critiquing and improving startup ideas
- This week: sizing
- Market Size detail
- This week: sizing
- Exercise: Market Size critique
- Critical thinking exercise
- Idea highlights
- Critiquing and improving startup ideas
- This week: risk
- Why You detail
- Why Not detail
- Early Adopter detail
- Premortem detail
- Skateboard detail
- Narrative detail
- This week: risk
- Exercise: Details critique
- Course survey
- Outro