Startup School: How To Validate Your Idea

​Are you a first-time founder? Do you have a business idea but you don’t know where to start? Want to change the world but need help with the first step?

​Startup School is the place to start!

​Startup School is a series of of live interactive workshops with entrepreneurial experts who will teach you how to test your assumptions, where to find your first customers, how to build your MVP, where to look for finance and funding, and what steps to take next.

​If you join six of the workshops, you’ll receive a LinkedIn certificate of programme completion from LSE.

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​How do you know if you’ve got a good idea for a startup? How can you quickly identify a problem worth solving and a business you want to build? Testing and iterating quickly is at the heart of all startup skills.

​This session will cover:

• ​An introduction to LSE Generate and Startup School

• ​Why startups fail, and how to avoid those common mistakes

• ​What it takes to build a successful business

• ​How to approach de-risking your idea

• ​An introduction to Lean Business Model canvas and other useful tools

​Joanna Hamer is the Programme Manager at LSE Generate. She has designed and delivered entrepreneurship training programmes for the last five years at Hatch Enterprise. She was the co-founder of social enterprise Juta Shoes, and an early team member at digital therapy innovation company BfB Labs.