DivInc Validation Bootcamp
What is the Validation Bootcamp?
This is a live, 6 week, online training and coaching program for founders and pre-founders. It is designed to provide competency validating business ideas and crafting both your customer offer and your investor offer, for those who need investment. This is a fun course with engaging visuals and important early stage concepts integrated into one clear framework. This is advanced material but designed for beginners in the startup founder space.
Included are tools, concepts, and frameworks to help you ask better questions about your idea and determine if a business idea is worth working on according to your goals and success criteria.
Who it is for?
This training applies for founders working in the early stage of a new business (aka Ideation, Validation, Discovery) as well as for those looking to open new business lines for established companies and organizations.
What is the time commitment?
This bootcamp is a live 6 week training that meets weekly on Tuesdays & Thursdays from Tuesday, October 19th - Thursday, December 2nd.
Start Date: Tuesday, October 19th
End Date: Thursday, December 2nd
Times: Tuesday and Thursdays, 9am to 11 am CT
Skipping dates: Nov 23, Nov 25, and Nov 30.
What topics are covered in the bootcamp curriculum?
This program is based on a framework that balances the importance of the customer, market, business, and financial models. The course steps through each of these separately then brings them all together for a complete picture of the business idea.
The scope of the program includes the following:
Customer modeling concepts and tools — Use tools and effective methods to help understand the customer, their jobs-to-be-done, and their relationship with the existing alternatives.
Business modeling tools — Use business modeling techniques to document the current business model in different ways to
Separate business models — many times what seems like one idea has more than one possible approach. Often then approaches are collapsed together. Separating the models provides clarity and highlights missing information.
Calculate the high-level workability of the model based on specific assumption.
Determine key assumptions and possible experiments to test their validity
Market modeling tools — Use market modeling concepts and tools to determine the market category and core strategy that underpins all of the decisions for the business
Experimental methods — Use experiments in a sprint cadence to test hypotheses
Offer crafting — Craft a complete offer. Understand methods for testing and improving the offer.
Metrics — Understand innovation metrics and how to use them to determine progress and prioritization
Effectiveness — Learn principles of effective action based on "speech acts" that provide an operational approach to doing everything more effectively.
Investors, Donors, Sponsors, and Partners — Learn principles for an investor offer and ways to improve conversations for support, partnership, and investment