This document contains an application form for a social entrepreneurship award. The form requests information about the applicant's proposed social enterprise project, including a description of the problem being solved, current solutions, the applicant's solution, potential customers and market size, costs and pricing, progress developing the venture so far, challenges, milestones, and personal learning goals. It provides word count limits and suggestions for the type of information to include in each section. The purpose is to help applicants comprehensively describe their project and its viability for consideration for award funding.
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About UCI Applied Innovation:
UCI Applied Innovation is a dynamic, innovative central platform for the UCI campus, entrepreneurs, inventors, the business community and investors to collaborate and move UCI research from lab to market.
About the Cove @ UCI:
To accelerate collaboration by better connecting innovation partners in Orange County, UCI Applied Innovation created the Cove, a physical, state-of-the-art hub for entrepreneurs to gather and navigate the resources available both on and off campus. The Cove is headquarters for UCI Applied Innovation, as well as houses several ecosystem partners including incubators, accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, mentors and legal experts.
Follow us on social media:
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This slides will be used in a talk for Engineering Students at NTU. Please help to assist to provide comments so that the students can be excited and consider taking entrepreneurship as their career.
Lecture 2 from our 5-Day Lean Launchpad Class discussing how to put customer discovery to work out of the building. Based on the acclaimed book, Talking to Humans, by Giff Constable & Frank Rimalovski. More at http://talkingtohumans.com.
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Research from Harvard Business School’s Shikhar Ghosh shows that 75% of all startup enterprises fail. What causes these failures and what can entrepreneurs do to mitigate the risk? Enter “Entrepreneurial Management.”
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Presentation by Inderjit Singh, Commercial Programme Manager, Innovation Agency at Excel in Health: developing your innovation for business on Tuesday 12 March 2019 at the Innovation Centre, Daresbury.
Dancing with Elephants: Navigating Hollywood Studios | Albert Chow | Lunch & ...UCICove
About UCI Applied Innovation:
UCI Applied Innovation is a dynamic, innovative central platform for the UCI campus, entrepreneurs, inventors, the business community and investors to collaborate and move UCI research from lab to market.
About the Cove @ UCI:
To accelerate collaboration by better connecting innovation partners in Orange County, UCI Applied Innovation created the Cove, a physical, state-of-the-art hub for entrepreneurs to gather and navigate the resources available both on and off campus. The Cove is headquarters for UCI Applied Innovation, as well as houses several ecosystem partners including incubators, accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, mentors and legal experts.
Follow us on social media:
Facebook: @UCICove
Twitter: @UCICove
Instagram: @UCICove
LinkedIn: @UCIAppliedInnovation
For more information:
cove@uci.edu
http://innovation.uci.edu/
This slides will be used in a talk for Engineering Students at NTU. Please help to assist to provide comments so that the students can be excited and consider taking entrepreneurship as their career.
Lecture 2 from our 5-Day Lean Launchpad Class discussing how to put customer discovery to work out of the building. Based on the acclaimed book, Talking to Humans, by Giff Constable & Frank Rimalovski. More at http://talkingtohumans.com.
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This is part 2 of a 4-part workshop series that focuses on providing practical guidance to first-time entrepreneurs. In this second part the emphasis is on how to sell, how to structure your value proposition and how to engage customers.
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This is part 3 of a 4-part workshop series that focuses on providing practical guidance to first-time entrepreneurs. In this third part the emphasis is on the people side of a start-up, founder composition, dynamics of a start-up team, success failure factors, role of leader, role of mentor etc. There is also a smaller section looking at how you approach building your product or service.
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Validating Your Opportunity: Product, Solution, Customer by Rick GibsonAnitaBell
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Startups don't win because of a great vision, but because of a superior strategy. If you want to have the superior strategy, you must simply have a better customer insight. Customer discovery principles can help you to get real insights about your customers.
The first rule is to fall in love with a problem, not your solution or business idea. You must have a clear picture what your product is hired to do. With customer interviews and different types of tests your job is to prove value hypothesis (that people are prepared to pay for your solution).
You can write down all your hypotheses on business model canvas, running lean canvas or even in a spreadsheet. Then you have to constantly sketch out alternative business models by asking yourself difficult questions and testing different assumptions.
Steps to customer discovery include developing a vision, setting the hypotheses, getting out of the building and performing a reality checks. The best way to start the customer discovery process is with the riskiest assumptions.
Important tools that can help you with customer discovery are also segmentation, personas, empathy map and value proposition canvas. After exploiting all the tools you should have a clear picture what are your customer's pains and gains and what are they willing to pay for.
When you are doing the customer discovery interviews to get the market insights you have to avoid doing any behavior predictions or being satisfied with compliments, opinions or stalling. What are you looking for is a real commitment from early-evangelists.
Remember, wrong assumptions are mother of all fu*ck-ups, and with customer discovery you can make sure you are not building your business based on the wrong assumptions.
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2. If you are reading this, well done you have decided to take the plunge and enter the competition.. I
wish you every success.
The following slides simply expand upon the requirements in the application form which you fill in
online.
Once that’s done we identify a short list of presenters for a panel of judges and determine the
winners.
The application form mirrors some of the process anyone might take to get to the bottom of
whether their idea for a working enterprise, social or otherwise, has a real chance of success.
It’s a starting point and win or lose( because it is a competition in the end) you may find that you
need to do more work to move forward. So everything you do here isn’t wasted, win or lose..It’s just
the start.
Good luck.
Paul Jordan
Competition Co Coordinator
Sussex Innovation Centre
paulj@sinc.co.uk
3.
4. Award Criteria for Social Enterprise
• students, staff or recent graduates (graduated within 1 year)
• over the age of 16
• living in the UK for the duration of the project
• who are individuals or part of an informal group
5. Award Criteria for Social Enterprise
Projects must:
• benefit the public or a community in the UK
• demonstrate a connection to the Higher Education Sector
• need a HE Social Entrepreneurship Award to ensure their success
• offer a learning opportunity for the applicant(s)
• be a new initiative – not a continuation of ongoing operations
• not be part of the applicant’s paid employment
• be an entrepreneurial solution to a social problem
• instigate social impact or social change
• not be for activities outside the law, against public policy or anything
that fosters ethnic, religious or commercial disharmony
6. Your Vision; Please describe your business/ project
when it’s successful.
100 words Max.
Suggestions:
• Description of the finished product or service
• How will customers discover the product or service
• Who is using it
• When and how will revenue and profit be generated
• How will it be delivered and who is involved
7. What is/ are the problem/problems you are solving?
100 words Max.
Suggestions;
• What job are people trying to get done
• How big is the problem
• Why do people care about the problem,
• What's the pain suffered/ difficulty experienced
• What have you done to understand the problem
8. What are the current solutions?
50 Words Max.
Suggestions:
• What is the current solution
• What are the major failings
• Who delivers the solution
• How many deliver solutions
• Is the solution part of something else- over
developed/expensive
9. What is your solution?
100 Words Max.
Suggestions:
• How does your solution solve the problem
• How easy is it to use will it change behaviour
• Do you offer the whole solution
• What are the unique features and benefits
• Why hasn’t anyone found a solution before
10. Potential customers & market? What is the potential
demand.
50 Words Max.
Suggestions:
• Whose a typical customer and who will buy it first.
• How big is the market now and likely in 5 years
• How do they buy the current solution, will that be the
same for you
• Is there a lot of competition in the market, who
dominates the market
• Is the market growing, is it a global opportunity
11. What costs? What pricing? What finance? Any
evidence available
50 Words Max.
Suggestions:
• What will it cost to make and sell. What is the profit on
each sale
• What will you charge and why.
• How many will you sell and when will you start selling
• How much money will you need to start the business
• What will you use the award for
12. How far have you come in terms of developing the
proposed venture?
50 Words Max.
Suggestions:
• Concept / prototype/ Does it work
• What research has been done or is needed to complete
the project. cost?
• Who have you asked for help; technical/customers/
buyers/sellers
• Is this the complete offering or first feature of a larger
offering
• What other funding have you explored
13. What are the challenges/barriers to success? Identify
key milestones
50 Words Max.
Suggestions;
• Money needed to deliver the first sale
• Market knowledge
• Personal skills
• Time
• A working product or service
14. Please outline personal learning and development that
you hope to gain from this project
50 Words Max.
Suggestions
• How to skills
• Skills needed as an entrepreneur
• Personal strengths and weaknesses
• Team building
• Creative problem solving
These slides have been written with a slant towards trading for profit. Social Enterprise may declare ..not for profit.. and in this interpretation that means you spend everything you earn on the reason you have established the social enterprise. This isn’t about getting donations or relying on grants for Social Enterprise, the ambition for winners here, is for stand alone sustainability and maximum potential for growth. Donations and grants might be a part but not the whole here and it is an enterprise model and not charity model we are aiming at. The vocabulary may not be a fit as a result but if you think sustainability and surplus when you see the word profit you wont go far wrong. Please contact me if further guidance is needed.paulj@sinc.co.uk
For Social Enterprise the vocabulary is different but the need is the same.Whose a typical beneficiary and who will use it first.How many have the problem and is the problem growingHow do they get help now, will that be the same for youIs there a lot of help already, who is already doing somethingWho pays for the solution.
Here for Social Enterprise substitute the word profit for surplus. Its important to know what costs are and to cover costs from income. A surplus in this context is about sustainability and potential for growth so you can do more by your own efforts.