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Lean Startup proponents will tell you… '''DON’T SELL'''[[File:We thought.png|thumb]] No business plan survives first contact with the customer. And, no UIF project survives first contact with an institutional stakeholder. The point of a Lean Startup interview is not to pitch your ideaAnd, but rather find out about look at all the values and needs of the person you are interviewingfindings your cohort colleagues uncovered... What keeps them up at night? What are Loyola Maryland: "We thought that that the key issues they feel students face? The candidates Office of Research and Sponsored Programs should use this information to figure be helped out whether their hypothesis about the value proposition to . We learned this stakeholder was right or not (the office works with Faculty and Graduate students. There is only one person. Next we will create two intern positions... one they sketched out on their Change Model Canvas)for a graduate student and another for an undergraduate student. So" In some instances, if you get negative reactions or feedback, ask yourself why? candidates uncovered great support... FHSalzburg: "We thought it would be more difficult to find someone to make some inferences about take over the underlying motives channel setup and further work in a way that can help you refine your hypothesesMS Teams (an IT solution). Maybe your idea better resonates with We learned there are 2-3 people who could integrate this task into their work if there is a different stakeholder on campus. That’s why it’s important to interview as many stakeholders as possiblewell-developed concept. AndNext, your business model canvas changes each time you test your hypothesis we will create a concept and learn more about present itto stakeholder/course director."
Oftentimes people in high-level positions hear big ideas from students and think (a) dollar signs, and (b) abandoned projects when students graduate. They don’t necessarily know that Fellows are resourceful and capable of executing successfully with an eye towards sustainability. Thankfully, this student continued to interview other stakeholders, finding diverse perspectives that were far more supportive. The key thing for this student is going to be to start executing in a bootstrapped way, learning from their next experiment, gaining traction and further support.