Part A Compulsory Individual PowerPoint slide Presentation to Panel of Experts via Zoom
This compulsory assessment is essential preparation and foundation using the feedback for the Part B assessment.
Individual students will upload the presentation.
Approval
The first step is to have your tutor approve by email your business idea. This must be done before the seminar of Week 4.
Format: PowerPoint slides must be converted to a PDF file (to reduce file size) submitted to Turnitin.
Word Limit: Ten (10) slides. It is a visual presentation use diagrams, tables, etc not words.
PowerPoint slides full of text will received a low mark and will have to be re-submitted, annotated detailed notes must be provided at the bottom of each slide.
Clear presentation of content on the slides helps the understanding of your ideas.
Students must regard the reader for Parts A and B as potential investors/financiers. e.g. for Part A angel investors and banks screening new lean start-ups before allowing a detailed Part B to be prepared Structure:
For Part A students must
1. Full name and student id plus a photo of the students (all must be present i.e. on-line). Name of Product/ Service with a (one) diagram to describe it. 1 slide. Date of approval by tutor by email.
2. Explain why this is a profitable, competition beating, value creating ‘lean’, investable entrepreneurial opportunity. Complete this sentence: If your lean start-up never existed, the world would be worse off because… 1 slide
3. Details of your creative cognitive work that applied elements of the taught syllabus to develop and validate the new opportunity. 1 slide.
4. 4/5. Present and explain Value Creation using a Value Proposition Canvas (with extensions and detailing as per the taught syllabus) 2 slides e.g. a) Customer Profile b) Value Map. Note: Begin with Customer Jobs (the part of their life where you create value).
6. Mock-up/role play/demo of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). – Not applicable
6. Present and explain the Business Model (means to ends transformation process) and an outline Business Model Canvas (Value Capture) (with extensions and detailing as per the taught syllabus) 2 slides.
7. Business Research and Data Gathering Plan i.e. The Part B hypotheses to be researched (see Ries Chapter 4 alchemy to science) 1 slide.
8. Principal Harvard style references listing a) scholarly works and b) secondary data sources. 1 slide. Note simple cut and pasted web references URLs (uniform resource locator) are unacceptable at level 6 1 slide.
