A presentation to help you prep for your GIST boot camp experience!

1. GIST Entrepreneurship
Boot Camp
HELI-Pad Series!
Welcome!!

2. The program starts…

3. The program starts…
TODAY!

4. Program Delivery
• Remote Study & Preparation
• 3 Days of dynamic, hands-on critique
and educational development
• Extended Mentorship

5. Remote Study & Preparation
• Watch Online Videos
– Lectures 0, 1, 1.5A, 1.5B & 2
– Available in Launchpad Central
• Populate the Business Model Canvas
• Conduct Customer Interviews

6. Remote Study & Preparation
• Watch Online Videos
– Lectures 0, 1, 1.5A, 1.5B & 2
– Available in Launchpad Central
• Populate the Business Model Canvas
• Conduct Customer Interviews
Rate: 10 / Week!!

7. Hands-On in Country
• Presentations – Scientist Presents!
– 3 mins Day 1
– 5 mins Day 2 & 3
• Flipped Classroom – it doesn’t work if
you don’t watch the videos!
• Active Mentorship / Office Hours

8. Extended Mentorship
• Access to Launchpad Central
– It’s a tool, use it!
• Teaching team critiques on interview
narratives
• Office hours for 1-1 guidance

9. How do you succeed?

10. Apply the Scientific Method
• H ypothesize (Guess!)
• E xperiment (Test your guesses)
• L earn (Interpret your findings)
• I terate (Modify your approach based
on facts)
HELI-Pad

11. The Business Model Canvas
• It’s a tool, not a report!
– You have to use a tool for it to be useful
• Every entry is a Guess (Hypothesis)

12. The Business Model Canvas
• It’s a tool, not a report!
– You have to use a tool for it to be useful
• Every entry is a Guess (Hypothesis)
How do you turn Guesses into Facts?

13. The Business Model Canvas
• It’s a tool, not a report!
– You have to use a tool for it to be useful
• Every entry is a Guess (Hypothesis)
How do you turn Guesses into Facts?
Collect Data!!

14. Get Out of the Building!!
• There are no facts in your office / lab!
• You collect data by interviewing
potential customers!!
Don’t talk to people you know!
10 Each Week!

15. Reminder: Your Assignment
• Watch Online Videos
– Lectures 0, 1, 1.5A, 1.5B & 2
Available in Launchpad Central
• Populate the Business Model Canvas
• Conduct 10 Interviews each week!

16. Competition!
Graded on two objectives:
1. Customer derived “insights”
Can only be obtained through Interviews!
2. Interview count
Must be useful / constructive!!