The beginning of your journey to commercializing your technology.
The Starting Blocks Customer Discovery Workshop is a three-day workshop with customer interviews designed to help scientists and engineers of all types find a market for their innovations. The core concept encourages inventors to get out of the lab and talk to industry decision-makers to find out what problem the industry needs their product to solve.
This is the shortest, “introductory” version of the National Science Foundation's I-Corps™ methodology, which helps inventors build a customer discovery toolkit and learn to talk to industry and business funders about their technologies. Starting Blocks leverages the nationally-recognized Lean LaunchPad methodology, specifically designed for university researchers commercializing their inventions.
Program Components
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Application
Unless noted, Starting Blocks takes place virtually via Zoom and is free for participants.
Who is eligible?
Our I-Corps programming is available to all deep tech innovators from any Colorado research or teaching institution. If you are in another demographic and would like to see if you are eligible, please contact us at vpcontact@colorado.edu.