PhD / Postdoc / Entrepreneurial Skills: From researcher to sciencepreneur
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Are you interested in starting your own company and acquiring fresh perspectives on entrepreneurship, a well-defined strategy, and the self-assurance to transform your concepts into tangible outcomes? This fast-paced, hands-on course is your introduction to turning research into a real-world venture. In just three hours, you will explore what makes startup ideas work, how to spot real customer pain, and how to communicate your solution clearly.
You will receive straightforward tools for sketching out your business model, testing your assumptions, and taking the first steps toward gaining traction – all without needing a finished product.
You will receive straightforward tools for sketching out your business model, testing your assumptions, and taking the first steps toward gaining traction – all without needing a finished product.
- Translate your idea into a venture narrative grounded in unmet market pain
- Quantify pain with the PURE filter
- Formulate testable problem-solution hypotheses
- Know the four key dimensions to build a startup
- Understand importance of structured customer interviews
- Discover business model ideas
- Draft a Lean Canvas
- Learn when to incorporate
- Get to know basics on founder equity, option pool size, and vesting schedule
- Gain indisghts into three tactics to generate first market traction
- Bonus: Get a 90-day execution plan toward product-market fit
Manuel Merki, UZH Innovation Hub, Startup and Innovation Manager
Early career researchers of all disciplines with an interest in entrepreneurship and innovation. Participants should have an idea for a startup by the beginning of the workshop.
This workshop is part of the Entrepreneurial Skills series, a collaboration between UZH Graduate Campus and UZH Innovation Hub.
A certificate of participation will be issued for each workshop. Once four or more certificates have been earned participants may request a certificate for Entrepreneurial Skills issued by the Graduate Campus and Innovation Hub.
1 ECTS Credit will be awarded (on request) to PhD candidates who have completed four or more workshops of the Entrepreneurial Skills series.
Conditions of participation
A certificate of participation will be issued for each workshop. Once four or more certificates have been earned participants may request a certificate for Entrepreneurial Skills issued by the Graduate Campus and Innovation Hub.
1 ECTS Credit will be awarded (on request) to PhD candidates who have completed four or more workshops of the Entrepreneurial Skills series.
Conditions of participation
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