by Mike Macfadden | Dec 20, 2017
The slides above are intended to be used for demonstration purposes when putting together an Minimum Viable Product Pitch Deck. Exemplars The slides in the deck in this post come from 6 different student teams’ minimum viable product pitch decks. Do not consider...
by Mike Macfadden | Dec 12, 2017
What follows are some tips concerning minimum viable product design in high school entrepreneurship. The Minimum Viable Product Continuum All MVPs fall somewhere on the continuum between nearly useless and completely validating. If your students’ MVP only measures...
by Mike Macfadden | Nov 9, 2017
There’s nothing that will better prepare you to lead your students through the ideation phase of building a business than having led instruction in that area once before. Unfortunately, that’s not possible for year-one incubator teachers, so I’ve...
by Mike Macfadden | Jan 5, 2016
I first stumbled upon the notion of selling your by-products when I read Rework by the guys from Basecamp. Sell Your By-Products Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founders of Basecamp and authors of Rework, explain that in the early days at the Ford...