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The Diamond Challenge curriculum focuses on helping students develop an entrepreneurial mindset and gain firsthand experience with the entrepreneurial process, empowering them to be entrepreneurial in whatever careers they may choose. Successful ventures are great, but empowerment through experiential learning is the primary goal.
From Idea to Action
A business innovation curriculum
- What is Entrepreneurship?
- Opportunity Recognition
- Opportunity Screening
- Ideation
- Types of Businesses
- Building a Business Like a Scientist
- Using a Business Model Canvas
- Customers and Their Problems
- Interviewing 101
- Solutions and Unique Value Proposition
- Minimum Viable Products & Experiments
- Making Money
- Putting It All Together
- Telling Your Story
This session addresses two general questions: what is entrepreneurship and what does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
This session highlights the idea that opportunities are everywhere and discusses how we can learn to recognize them and begin to think like an entrepreneur.
This video is about identifying the best opportunities for your time-your most valuable resource.
This session dispels the myth that some people just aren’t creative and discusses how to generate new ideas.
This session discusses six different types of entrepreneurial businesses and the goals and characteristics associated with each type.
This session introduces the basic idea of starting with hypotheses about the customer, problem, and solution and gathering evidence to test these hypotheses.
This session introduces the notion that a business can be deconstructed into basic parts and built one piece at a time.
This session focuses on critical questions that need to be answered to begin the customer discovery process.
This session discuss a powerful tool for gathering evidence – customer discovery interviewing.
This video focuses on the process of developing a viable solution by developing solution hypotheses and a compelling unique value proposition.
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This video discusses how to use interviewing, minimum viable products and simple experiments to test your ideas about the solution and its unique value proposition.
Instructional Guide
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This session addresses the fundamental concepts of unit cost, unit revenue, and unit margin to illustrate how businesses make money.
This session addresses how to write a compelling description of a business concept and deliver a persuasive pitch.
This session addresses how to write a compelling description of a business concept and deliver a persuasive pitch.
Venturing for Good
A social innovation curriculum
- What is Social Entrepreneurship?
- Wicked Problems and Grand Challenges
- Social Entrepreneurship Processes and Challenges
- Solution Generation and Screening
- Social Impact Business Models
- Beneficiaries and Payers
This session addresses two general questions: what is social entrepreneurship and what does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
This session highlights the idea that opportunities are everywhere and discusses how we can learn to recognize them and begin to think like an entrepreneur.
This session delves deeper into how to turn the wicket problem into a solvable problem with feasible solutions.
This video is about generating and screening solutions to social problems.
This video highlights the special challenges social entrepreneurs encounter in developing impact models wherein beneficiaries are distinct from payers.