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UEA Startup Accelerator

EVOLVING YOUR BUSINESS

Survey Findings

What have you learned?

What does this mean for your venture?

01

Lean start

Understand the problem and define

Develop MVP

Experiment and measure

02

Experimentation

  • On day one, there is only a series of untested hypotheses or assumptions.

  • Instead of writing a business plan, founders summarise their hypotheses in a framework that indicates how a company creates value for itself and its customers

Lean startup cycle

CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

Get out

  • Use a ’get out of the building’ approach.
  • Customer development to test the hypotheses.
  • Go out and ask potential users, purchasers and partners.

Agile development

Agile

Based on customer behaviour - Pivot or preserve

Eliminates resource needs assumed by scaling up by developing the products incrementally.

Quicker we complete cycle the faster the learning

Define the problem

Validate

Test your assumptions

Validation board

03

ACTIVITY

Intro

Example

MVP / Prototyping

04

Analysis

Understanding your Data

Iterating and Pivoting

06

Pitch to Win

06

“Speak to emotions first, logic second”

‘People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it’

The Why

Simon Sinek – TED talk

“Start with the why”

What you need to think about

  • Who are the audience?
  • What is the problem you seek to solve?
  • Why is your solution right for them?
  • So what! Why should they care?
  • How will you measure success?
  • HOW WILL YOU GET THEM EXCITED ABOUT IT?

What to think about

Six hat

theory

Six hats

Not what you say...it’s how you say it

What works

  • You can’t ration passion
  • Smile
  • Make eye contact
  • Open and confident body language
  • Breathe
  • BEING grounded

What does great communication look & sound like?

What makes great communication

  • Storytelling

  • Metaphors

  • Power of three

  • Alliterations

  • Repetition

What does great communication look & sound like?

Cont...

  • Big powerful words - nominalisations

  • Pace / Tonality

  • Space

  • Differentness

  • Clear & concise

Preparing to pitch

Preparation

  • Plan your script and rehearse
  • Prepare for questions
  • Be professional – dress, slides, handouts, time-keeping, communications..
  • Be confident
  • Be authentic

Lets Pitch

Lets Pitch

Define challenge/problem

Why – motivation/purpose

Solution & How are you delivering this

Why – motivation/purpose

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