StartUp School - From Idea to PrototypeLaajuus (5 cr)

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, the student can explore his/her business idea further together with team members and other people. The students know how to design their idea and develop it further by using lean startup methodology. The students are able to collect customer feedback and utilize customer insight in development process, create prototype, define and refine their business idea. The students can test their ability to act according to entrepreneurial behavior patterns.

Contents

Lean startup methodology
Business idea development
Customer insight

Starting level and linkage with other courses

No prerequisites. The students should have a tentative business idea to work with before entering this course.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

The students will work on individual assignments and group assignments. In the three days of intensive team work based workshops, one day is used for defining and developing each student’s idea.

Assessment criteria - grade 1

Self leadership
Student can describe own strengths, development areas and entrepreneurial vision.

Communication
Student describes his own network and recognizes for whom (stakeholders) he needs to communicate the business idea.

Offering development
Student takes the first customer contacts to test the idea and vision.
Student can describe the resources needed to implement the idea.

Team work
Contribution in the team’s work effort is active.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Self leadership
Based on feedback from others, student recognizes where he needs help and can build his activities based on his own strengths.

Communication
Student identifies the communication needs related to each stakeholder.

Offering development
Student has tested and developed the idea further based on the feedback.

Team work
Good contribution in the team’s work effort, active attendance and participation.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Self leadership
Based on feedback from others, student recognizes where he needs help and can build his activities based on his own strengths.

Communication
Student prepares communication materials to support the implementation of own business idea and justifies the need for those.

Offering development
Student can create a business model, explain and justify it.

Team work
Impressive contribution in the team’s work effort, active attendance, participation and gives feedback and new ideas to the other students’ work.