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Validate Your Startup Idea In 6 Weeks
7 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
You have an online business startup idea and you believe everyone will love it! We'll help you validate your idea or find a better one.
Validate Your Startup Idea In 6 Weeks
7 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
You have an online business startup idea and you believe everyone will love it! We'll help you validate your idea or find a better one.
Hosted by
Ilke KARABOGALI and Ali Selim AYTUNA
Founders of AI SaaS startup (1x exit), Lean Startup mentors, innovators
Course overview
Stop Building Products That Noone Needs!
Best startup businesses are built with the help of their customers.
In this course, we will coach you to learn,
💡 how to validate your startup idea
🤔 how to discover a problem worth solving
💸 how to discover the early adopters willing to pay you
🙄 how to leave your "builder stubbornness" behind
🧩 how to achieve Customer-Problem fit via our 7 Fit Framework
Who is this course for
01
Startupers and indie hackers who want to build a startup
02
A solo entrepreneur who is trying to validate an idea before forming a team
03
An intrapreneur, a product manager, or a product marketer working on a new product/innovation idea
04
Team member working for a scale-up with some growth-related issues
05
One of the first employees of an early-stage startup
06
Startup entrepreneur, founder or co-founder of an early-stage startup
07
What You'll Get Out Of This Course
Save Months or Maybe Years of Your Life
Most startups fail because there is no market need. Do not waste your time pursuing a dream. This course is your opportunity to get real.
Save Money for Your Real Business
Time is money. The sooner you validate/disprove your idea, the more money you save for your real product launch.
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
You'll learn how to get out of the building and start speaking with your potential customers.
Answer The Crucial Question; "Is It Worth The Effort?"
- You'll understand if your idea is worth pursuing.
- You'll discover whether there is a market need for your idea.
- You'll understand if people are willing to pay you to solve a problem.
Fail Fast, Fail Cheap
You'll learn how to design low-cost experiments to test your ideas/new features and execute them in a fast fashion.
Answer the Questions that are Keeping you Awake at Night
- We've built a great product, but it does not sell, WHY?
- We've spent weeks adding this killer feature, WHY are customers not using it?
- How can I build a product without even quitting my full-time job?
Make Idea Validation A Habit
You'll learn how to adopt idea validation to your current processes
Reveal the Harsh Truths About Your Business
You'll learn to wear the customer's lens and analyze your business to uncover the friction.
Start Formulating Your Value Proposition
- You'll learn about the top problems of your customers
- You'll start filling out the most important block in your business model canvas
Discover THE PROBLEM Worth Solving
- Validate or disprove your original idea
- Discover real customer problems worth going after
Find Out If You Should PIVOT
- You'll discover the gaps in your value proposition
- You'll see if your revenue model is breaking because you are not able to create enough value
Validate Your Startup Idea In 6 Weeks
What people are saying
Khaled Ehsan
Duda Fernandes
Serhat Ozgel
Sergey Rudenko
Meet your coaches
Ilke KARABOGALI
I call myself "an organized self-starter and a motivated entrepreneur".
Although I was trained as an engineer, I have always been a marketer at heart.
I have 18+ years of experience in professional life and in building online businesses.
I collaboratively founded two companies, set the company mission, coordinated with fellow business partners, and developed integrated strategies to ensure early traction with zero funding. From scratch, I created a sales channel that helped the company;
o Acquire +150 eCommerce clients from 35 countries.
o Achieve 30X monthly recurring revenue (MRR) growth in 32 months along with a 65% YOY growth.
In my corporate life, I had the chance to manage two important brands; Nokia and Nescafe.
I headed all the brand management activities and go-to-market projects of Nokia smart phones and managed 2Million EUR/annum marketing budget.
During my years at Nestle, managing the Nescafe brand with 70%+ market share in a market was a fascinating experience yet a great learning opportunity.
Ali Selim AYTUNA
I am a software engineer and a 4x founder having 15 years of experience discovering and validating unmet customer problems, crafting product strategies, developing scalable & repeatable business models and leading UX & engineering teams to build high-growth B2C SaaS products, apps & ventures.
I co-founded and led the product at Perzonalization, a SaaS with an AI-powered real-time engine that personalizes the shopping experience of 19 million every month. Helped it grow to #16 with 1.90% market share in global personalization software market. Architected its core, proprietary technology.
I kicked-off the local Nokia application partner ecosystem from scratch and helped place Turkey #1 in Europe and #3 globally in terms of daily Nokia Store application downloads, while generating 10M USD of earned media value.
I co-founded 4 bootstrapped B2C SaaS startups that became recognized industry players, authored 1 book and 2 articles with 450+ citations, the algorithm developed for which still serves the Bioinformatics & Proteomics community as an online tool today.
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Course syllabus
01
The Truth About "The Ideas"
02
7 FIT Framework Towards Product-Market Fit: An Introduction
03
What Is "Customer- Problem Fit?"
04
Early Adopters 101: Who Will Be Your First Paying Customer?
05
Working On Your Problem Hypothesis Statement
06
Problem Interviews: Getting Out Of The Building
07
Learn How To Sell Before You Build
08
JTBD 101: For Which Job Your Customer Is Going To Hire You?
09
Interview Analysis: A Deep Dive Into The Customer Insights
10
Writing Customer Job Stories
11
Discovering "The Problem" Worth Solving
Course schedule
Live: 1.5 hours/week+Self-study+Coaching
Mondays Live Workshop
09:00 - 10:30 AM ET
Every Monday morning, we'll be hosting a live session. If you miss it, you'll have the chance to attend one of the other sessions in the same week.
Tuesdays Live Workshop
09:00 - 10:30 AM GMT+1
Every Tuesday morning, we'll be hosting a live session in European time. If you miss it, you'll have the chance to attend one of the other sessions in the same week.
Wednesdays Live Workshop
09:00 - 10:30 AM ET or 10:00 - 11:30 PT
On Wednesdays, we will be hosting two live sessions. You can attend the one that suits your time.
Fridays Live Workshop
09:00 - 10:30 AM GMT+1
Every Friday morning, we'll be hosting a live session. If you miss it, you'll have the chance to attend one of the other sessions in the next week.
2 Coaching Sessions
30 minutes/attendee
After participating in one of the live sessions and finalizing your exercises, you can schedule a time from your coaches' calendar for two 1-1 coaching sessions. Each session will last for 30 minutes.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens if I can’t make a live session?
I work full-time, what is the expected time commitment?
How can I contact my instructors?
What is the course schedule?
Is it also possible to get coaching?
Can I Get Any Support After The Course?
I am in a startup incubator program. Should I still enroll in this course?
I did not quit my full-time job, should I still enroll in this course?
Can I ask for seed funding for startups after this course?
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