NEXT STEPS

19 maio 2025, 23:18 • Miguel Amaral

Dear Students, our course is almost reaching its end;  the BMC building blocks were all addressed and the projects are structured and almost finished. Below you can find information regarding the next steps in our course (just to reinforce what was already in the syllabus + some additional updates and details)

23/05/2025:

- This Friday will be IST – DAY and, as you know,  there will be no Lectures at IST. Students can use this time to meet with companies (face-to-face or online) to fine tune their final projects. It is mandatory to have the meeting/pitch with companies, but not necessarily on Friday; each team should arrange things directly with the companies, according with the availability of both the companies and the team  – as long as you do it before 30 May (our next lecture). Try to do a 10-minute presentation to the CEOs/founders followed by a Q&A period. The companies will then provide feedback on your performance to you and to the instructors.

30/05/2025:

- Presentation: Teams will present their storytelling and communication strategies regarding the final pitch. Interviews can be done -  with  potential users, friends, colleagues, etc – to validate your approaches (just like the hypotheses) and provide you with additional feedback.

05/06/2025:

- Delivery: Detailed Final Report in the form of a PowerPoint presentation file up to 20 slides. Important concepts and ideas can be included in the slides as footnotes and/or annex slides. It is important to show the capacity to address all the BMC dimensions; Quality of the value proposition and the solution; Robust assumptions and estimations; Different scenario analyses; Technical and financial feasibility of the project. 

- Delivery: The “promotional” video. The video should have the duration of up to 5 minutes and should summarize / advertise the team’s final value proposition and solution/proposal. The format and approach are free, teams may want to do acting/role-playing, use personas, use still or moving images, narrator voices, etc, as long as it communicates the initial problem, the solution and the central ideas of the Project.

- This delivery was scheduled to 30/5 but we decided to postpone it to 5/6 so that students can have extra time for preparing the report / presentation/ video. Both the final presentation and the report can be uploaded in the same file. (in the habitual weekly presentations’ folder)

06/06/2025:

- Students will do the final presentation at LISPOLIS (around 4pm - to be confirmed). Companies, one Investor and the Instructors of the course will be part of the evaluation panel.

Regards, have a nice week.