2. Talk with students who are missing blog posts and blogs

3. Validation Plan Activity

4. Share your validation plan with the class

We want to begin working on the validation stage of your startup venture. Validation refers to any activity in which you seek an answer to the question: Will customers buy our product or use our service? Thus, you and your group need do some type of experiment to test your idea.

Today’s agenda is:

1. Read the articles below

2. Watch the Dropbox validation video

3. Discuss how you plan to validate your idea

4. Write a blog post on validation and how you plan to validate your idea (title the Idea Validation)

5. Team Meeting with me

Validate your Business Idea

Shopify on Product Validation

How to Validate your Idea

9 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Validated Their Business Idea

1. Blog Post on Business Model Canvas

2. Team Meet Ups on next steps

For today’s blog post, you want to describe each of the components of the business model canvas. It is important that provide examples for of the nine different components of the business model. I suggest you refer to the business models you constructed this past week.

The way to measure the success of your blog post is to ask the question: can I refer to this blog post if I have questions about the meaning of any of the components.

1. Discuss on to present a business model

2. Prepare to present

3. Presentations with feedback

1. Create a slideshow for one competitor’s business model

2. Prepare for presentation

3. Present one of your competitors business model