Value Proposition

15 LESSONS

WATCH

These are videos clips taken from actual Draper Univerisity lectures. You can learn about entrepreneurship directly from founders, VCs, execs, lawyers, and more.

We’ve cut them up into short, easy clips for you. If you’d like to access the full lectures you’ll need to upgrade to a Superhero Membership.

Find Someone Who Needs Help and the Funding Will Come- ...

4:22

The Competition Was Built by People Who Were Too Qualif...

8:23

Have a Vision- Ron Johnson

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CHALLENGE

Learn by doing”. These are a list of activities that we’ve come up with to help you practice your entrepreneurial skills. Many of these are again, actual activities that we have students do at Draper Univeristy, designed to push you outside of your comfort zone.

Absolutely feel free to post your progress or results and share with students so we can give you feedback!

Interviewing people without getting biased responses is...

Ask a friend about their opinion on your idea and keep ...

Complete a business model canvas for your product. If y...

Prototyping

It’s important to remember that there are a myriad of w...

DISCUSSION

We’ve come up with some discussion questions and topics to help you start thinking in the right direction about startups.

Share your ideas and thoughts with other students. Keep an eye out for Draper U Alumni, mentors, and staff! We’ll come on regularly to give feedback, and share our own insights.

What’s more difficult to you with interviewing customer...

Describe a time you decided to pivot instead of improve...

Think about a product you REALLY love, why do you love ...

What is your goal in helping users or customers? What d...

READING

We’ve pulled together a collection of books and articles for you to supplement your learning. These are the same recommendations we give to students here at DU, we hope you find them just as helpful!

Do You Really Need to Pivot? http://techcrunch.com/2015...

How to Listen to Customers https://drive.google.com/fil...

P&G: Innovate by Moving in with the Customer https://me...

TOOLS

Starting a company is hard enough on your own, everyone needs a little help. These are tools and servies already built by other entrepreneurs we think would help you get closer to your goals.

We’ve tried to mostly find free to use tools, but some software may require a purchase.

We're still coming up with content for this section. Keep checking back for updates!

INFORMATION

Make sure your company provides enough value to people so that they are willing to pay you for it.