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Start Today - Design Sprint
What is EAE Design Sprint?
18 de May de 2021
From Idea to Reality in 5 Days
When we think about entrepreneurship, it’s inevitable to think about risk, adrenaline, unknown obstacles or uncertainty. We often make it out to be as if only a very specific kind of people could do it — people with unique qualities that combine supernatural skills like creativity, disruption, innovation and business skills, people that go through one of those Newton-being-struck-by-the-apple moment; that long awaited “Eureka!”.
But nothing could be further from the truth! The entrepreneur’s journey requires people willing to carry out incremental thinking processes as well as processes of analysis and collective development. The latter must be sought after even when you’re developing an idea by yourself since, as the project moves forwards, you’ll need the opinion of other sector experts and possible clients. By collecting and validating these insights, the uncertainty and the risk that are related to the launching of a business will be lower.
How Does EAE Design Sprint Work?
First, we issued a call requesting students to define the business ecosystem where their project will develop. In order to do this, it was necessary to get to know these students very well. That’s why we asked them to tell us about their interests, their teams —a key factor in order to unite synergies— and what drives them to work in the chosen ecosystem. We closed the call with more than 70 projects, from which we selected 8 for the spanish programme and 8 for the english one.EAE Entrepreneur plans a programme that consists of 7 weekly sessions in which we will guide the teams in the application of the methodology created by Jake Knapp for Google Ventures. Also, students get access to guidance tutoring in order to develop their project idea correctly.
The 5 Steps Journey in a Nutshell:
- Day 1 - Monday: Mapping. Define the challenge and set the goal.
- Day 2 - Tuesday: Ideas. After a day of exploration, we start the search for solutions and come up with drafts for this options.
- Day 3 - Wednesday: Decisions. We evaluate the solutions we came up with, in detail. We’ll use heat maps and lay the ground for prototyping.
- Day 4 - Thursday: Prototyping. The challenge for the fourth day is to approach realistic prototypes that will allow us to gather valuable information for the test that will take place in the last day.
- Day 5 - Friday: Testing. We’ll approach potential clients in order to test the work that was developed by the time in the course of the week.
References: KNAPP, Jake. SPRINT the method to solve problems and test new ideas in only five days