Course Website
This is your course website (https://venturewrench.com/launchcohort2023/ ) for use throughout the course. That will be your link to all of the resources that we will be using. Please bookmark it!Course Materials
All lessons will be conducted over Zoom, so please make sure you are using the latest version (5.14.11 as of last report). All team members are expected to be on time with videos turned on, and actively engaged throughout the course. The zoom details for our regular Friday meetings are listed below. You will be welcomed into a waiting room and then admitted in order to prevent zoombombing.ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
As stated in the Syllabus, 2 team members must be present for the each weekly meeting and for the bi-weekly one-on-one coaching sessions (unless you have received a variance in advance of being accepted to the cohort). Mentor are optional, but if you have elected to invite a mentor to participate, they should also participate in all sessions. In order to be considered to have completed the cohort, attendance is mandatory, and any absences must be pre-approved by the VentureWrench team and will also be reviewed by UIC. Plan to be early to all cohort activities. Attendance will be taken in each class.
Your team will be expected to conduct 75 discovery interviews beginning as soon as you can. We recommend starting to schedule interviews as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to schedule interviews!
Before we start the cohort, it is essential that you familiarize yourself with the concept, and tools, of discovery interviews. This page on our website (which will also be hosted in our Learning Management System) includes the list of videos produced by Steve Blank (of Stanford) for the Lean Launchpad community. You need to watch all the videos up until the title “VentureWrench Launch! Utah SBIR Summer 2023 Cohort Dates”
https://venturewrench.com/launch-bmc-discovery/
Once you’ve watched the videos, you are welcome to start your discovery calls and they will counted towards your commitment for this cohort.