Ideas Don't Matter - March 13 2025 - Harvard i Lab Workshop

Ideas Don’t Matter - March 13 2025 - Harvard i Lab Workshop

Thank you for attending!

You were so engaging, we learned a lot from you! It’s clear we needed

• More time for your questions
  • A better time plan so we can get to the interactive parts of the workshop for you to engage on your ideas. (We only got to one out of 5 planned exercises!)
  • More time for examples from the real world to bring it to life (Again we only got to 10% of that content)

I also learned a lot from talking to those of you that stayed behind to ask questions for an hour afterwards. I hope you will now find more pointers below and in the startupsecretssandbox.com

Slides from yesterday’s workshop

Last night was as I said an MVP test of some new material in response the ILab and Becca prompting the need to address the Idea→Customer gap.

Next steps

(items in blue are links into the Startup Secrets Sandbox)

The logical next step from building your customer compass and answering the questions we raised last night is to DEFINE the Problem or Opportunity . I would at a minimum suggest you start by determining whether your problem is 4U : Unworkable, Unavoidable, Urgent, and Underserved. All of this is covered in the Customer Value Proposition module and workshop.

And if you want some help, try our Customer Value Proposition AI . You can begin with your idea and it will help you formulate your value proposition.

Follow up questions?

Your comments and questions are warmly welcomed here in the startupsecretssandbox.com for follow up.

You will all receiving an invite to Coda shortly. It works just like a google doc. Double click on a word and look for the comment bubble or review this video on How to comment in Coda

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YOU are our customers and the only way we can improve these materials is by listing to your experience, so thank you for sharing!

We look forward to seeing you around on Campus!

Best, Michael, Becca and the Harvard i Lab team https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjskok/

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