Workshop # 1: Your New Superpower: Entrepreneurship

Lean Mean Startup Machine: Customer

Workshop # 2:
Development

Workshop # 3: Strategic Aim + The Numbers Game

Workshop # 4: FastPitch: Fishing for Sharks

Workshop # 5: Were Live! Fastpitch Scholarship Competition

Fastpitch Scholarship Competition
Workshop # 1 - Your
New Super Power:
Entrepreneurship
Workshop # 1: Your New Superpower: Entrepreneurship

Workshop # 2: Lean Mean Startup Machine

Workshop # 3: Strategic Aim + The Numbers Game

Workshop # 4: FastPitch: Fishing for Sharks

Workshop # 5: Were Live! Fastpitch Scholarship Competition

 Activity # 1
Dynamic Solution-Orientation:
Atlas Tower of Entrepreneurship

7:21 Timed Activity

Play Song
The OJays
For the Love of Money
 Empowered Entrepreneurs:
Solve Earths Biggest Problems
What is a Startup?
 Startup:
A young company dedicated to
solving a specific problem.
 What is
Solution-Oriented Mindset?
Solution Oriented Mindset:

A type of worldview, an attitude, and a way

of thought that focuses on seeing the world
as a set of problems that you have the
opportunity to solve.
 Asset
An asset is an economic resource that a) can be owned, and
b) is expected to provide future economic benefits
(comfort/well-being)

Examples:
Tangible- property/real estate (ie. house)
Not Tangible- Patent
 Capital
Wealth in the form of money or other assets
 Product
A tangible good or object that a customer can see, touch,
feel, try on, taste or otherwise use.
 Service
A service is intangible -- something a customer experiences
but doesn't hold or retain.

*Most companies fall somewhere in between, marketing products,

services or packages with both.
 Customer
a person or organization that buys goods (products) or
services from a store or business
Enterprise
A business or company
 Entrepreneurship
The activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking
on financial risks in the hope of profit.
"The new business opportunities have encouraged entrepreneurship on a grand
scale."
What is an Entrepreneur?
 Entrepreneur
A person who organizes and manages any
enterprise, especially a business, usually with
considerable initiative and risk.

Entrepreneur + Capital = Products + Customers = Business.

(Stated by Steve Tobak from entrepreneur.com)
Oprah Winfrey Mark Zuckerberg Henry Ford Arianna Huffington

Steve Jobs Richard Branson Sara Blakely Elon Musk

Do Now
Review your cornell notes from last Friday.

-Compare your notes with a partner and make sure youre

not missing any vocabulary words with definitions

-Based off of what you learned , be prepared to answer the

following question: How does entrepreneurship push
humanity forward?
 Activity # 2
Solving Real-World Problems:
Adopting Solution-Oriented Mindset
Quickly, form small groups...
Patrick Otema. No access to medical care.
Rajan Sharma. No access to electricity.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
 Patrick Otema Rajan Sharma
Great Pacific
No access to medical No access to
Garbage Patch
care. electricity.
 Activity # 2
Solving Real-World Problems:
Adopting Solution-Oriented Mindset

2:00 Timed Activity

Play Song
Aloe Bloc
I need a dollar
In the video, listen for how they adopted the Solution-Oriented Mindset:

How do we change the world

through the power of music?

Bridget Hilton (29 yrs)

Joe Huff (29 yrs)
LSTN
Problem Identification + Solution-Oriented Mindset:

Sam resolved then and there that

there had to be a better way, and
that he would be part of developing
a solution
Sam Goldman (29 yrs)
Dlight
Problem Identification + Solution-Oriented Mindset:

I simply thought about how to

tackle a problem, and worked for
a couple of years to bring it closer
to reality.
Boyan Slat (19 yrs)
The Ocean Cleanup Project
Thats really inspiring, but a little
intimidating for me. I dont really feel like
I can Push Humanity Forward...

I just want to do a more traditional,

lifestyle business, or some kind of
service-based business...
Mark Bustos
Problem Identification + Solution-Oriented Mindset:

Im a hairstylist. On my days off, I

go out on the street, and I look for
homeless people to help out.

Mark Bustos (31 yrs)

Three Squares Studio
 Your
Startup
(Its like a Rocket-Ship)

Pre-Launch Debrief:
Startups are Hard
Where does my startup start?
The NSL
Startup
Method
 Problem A brainstorming method designed
Part 1 Identification to identify problems

Root Cause Breaking apart a problem

Part 2 Analysis into fundamental root causes

Evaluating different solutions

Part 3 Solution Evaluation
based on standard criteria
 Problem A brainstorming method designed
Identification to identify problems

List Problems With Driving, on the board...

5.5 Million Car Accidents

40,000 Deaths.
First Principles Breaking apart a problem
Deconstruction into fundamental root causes

List Root Causes of Accidents...

 Evaluating different solutions
Solution Evaluation
based on standard criteria

List out and compare solutions

Our Criteria:
1) Viability
2) Feasibility
3) Domain Knowledge / Passion
4) Originality
Pre-Launch Debrief:
Startups are Hard
Pre-Launch Debrief:
Startups are Hard
 Embracing Failure:
Resilience through Cognitive Grit
 Note about Homework:
If youre not happy with the outcome of the NSL methodology, start again, from the
beginning. Its important that you come to class with your startup idea chosen. Also, if you
have an existing idea for a startup or a company, run it through the system.

END
Philanthropic Entrepreneurship and Sponsor Highlight
Even if its hard, keep playing.
After everything weve covered today,
Why is Entrepreneurship considered a
superpower?
Homework
Explanation
 Activity # 3
The Oath of Entrepreneurship:
Make it your own

(Example)

I now accept my new superpower.

Its called Entrepreneurship.
It allows me to reframe my worldview,
and adopt the Solution-Oriented Mindset.
As I continue to learn, grow, and develop new skills,
I will make an impact. I will make a difference.
I will solve important problems.
I am an Entrepreneur.
I will Push Humanity Forward.
What is the last thing you bought?

What problem were you solving with

this purchase?
Problem Statement
 Activity # 3
Starting with a Prompt:
Problem Statement and Solution Statement
not t Uri Levine
Founder
Waze App
 A startup is a company working to solve a
problem where the solution is not obvious, and
Neil Blumenthal
success is not guaranteed.

A startup is a temporary organization used to

search for a repeatable and scalable business
model.
Steve Blank
Part 1 Problem A brainstorming method
Identification designed to identify problems

First Principles Breaking apart a problem

Part 2 Deconstruction into fundamental root causes

Problem Statement Solution Statement

A clear description of A clear description of

the problem you are how your startup will
trying to solve solve this problem

Startup Hypothesis

An untested plan to solve a specific problem,

as an entrepreneur.
Customer Development Feedback
loop

Sorry, YOURE GOING TO FAIL