MSMBA Workshop 1-17-25
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Thank you for being so engaging in the workshop today. We learned a lot! Here are the materials as promised:
Slides from today’s workshop
Here are links to sections we skipped:
DEBT , with the example of 
Tesla DEBT
Applying Your Value Proposition
- This should help you with your venture, particularly if you use the
Customer Value Proposition AI and feed it the value prop you created in class and ask it to help apply it to other audiences for other purposes like fundraising. And if you’re interested, there is also more on how to 
Perfect Your Fundraising Pitch .
- This should help you with your venture, particularly if you use the
Here are sections we went beyond the slides due to seeing what teams wanted:
MVS - Minimum Viable Segment
This is a deeper topic than we had time for, so if you want to think more about how to design your MVP to get to Product Market Fit quicker, check this out MVS - Minimum Viable Segment
Roadmaps and
Balancing Vision and Execution
We also talked a little bit about Roadmaps. Below is the whiteboard, that Jennifer helped draw out. This is an important topic, that you can learn more about here Balancing Vision and Execution . It might well help you when pitching VCs, who as I said can talk out of both sides of their mouth on this subject!
I did not get time to explain 
Whole Product or more about 
Strategic partners . Click those links if you’re interested to understand more about how to fill in early product gaps and get 
Go to Market leverage.
And if you want some inspiration, checkout how a billion dollar+ outcome got built with a 
Roadmap to success
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