The STARTLAND team offers virtual coaching sessions to provide feedback to teams about your projects. These sessions take place the last Thursday of each month with the STARTLAND team and guest entrepreneurs serving as mentors.
Prepare with these tips and tricks from STARTLAND
Use this pitch flow to form your message.
This sneak peek at the judges’ rubric will help you do a self-check to see if you’ve built enough empathy around your targeted users and to see if your idea is novel, useful and viable according to the rubric’s suggestions.
More tips and tricks to consider:
- As you are trying to figure out what problem to solve, consider what BIG problem in the world you are passionate about and narrow down a component of that problem that you believe you can solve.
- Another way of ideating a problem to solve is by looking at the tedious, daily problems you or others face and consider how you might solve them.
- If you have an idea or project you think you’d like to pursue, begin validating your idea by talking to people that experience that problem to deeply understand their pain points. This will help you see if the problem is worth pursuing.
- Look for solutions that already exist and wonder, how can I make the current solutions better?
- If you have chosen a problem to solve, focus on using this rubric to make your solution better.
- Practice your pitch as often as you can with as many people as you can! This helps you understand if others’ understand the problem you are solving and the solution you are suggesting.