The session will share how to: - Validate that a problem is worth solving - Determine a startup’s Ideal Client Profile (ICP) - Know if a start-up should pause, pivot, or proceed - Identify and test the assumptions that could kill a startup - Differentiate from the three forms of competition every startup has - Leverage the 11 questions every problem validation interview should ask - Combine early adopters and trigger events to accelerate customer adoption - Understand the six types of customer problems that increase a startup’s odds of success
The session will share how to:
- Validate that a problem is worth solving
- Determine a startup’s Ideal Client Profile (ICP)
- Know if a start-up should pause, pivot, or proceed
- Identify and test the assumptions that could kill a startup
- Differentiate from the three forms of competition every startup has
- Leverage the 11 questions every problem validation interview should ask
- Combine early adopters and trigger events to accelerate customer adoption
- Understand the six types of customer problems that increase a startup’s odds of success
#200, 37 Richard Way SW
Join us at the Calgary Plug-In for a morning of networking, collaboration, and caffeine-fueled creativity at the Plug and Play Calgary office (Biscuit Block, 438 11 Ave SE).
This session is a casual conversation with Colin and Mark and is designed for growth stage founders and CEOs who want to strengthen financial discipline, position towards investor readiness, and use capital, both dilutive and non dilutive capital.
The goal of this course is to get you versed in the language and mechanics of venture finance, so that you can make direct investments into startups that you really believe in.