Lean Startups, 5 cr

Lectures, including also visiting lectures. Real-world group exercise, where the group creates an idea, validates the problem, develops an initial minimum viable product. The course ends in a public pitching event -the Lean Startup Riot. Possibility for online attendance.

In this course, students will become entrepreneurs and startuppers. They will work on their own idea or develop a new business idea jointly from scratch. The students can simulate the life of a startup as a course exercise or establish a real company. The core goal of the course is to gain an increased understanding of how emergent innovations translate into commercial reality and might transform society. We survey case examples of both successful and failed businesses and generally grapple with the difficulties of deploying and diffusing products. We explore a range of business models and opportunities. Students learn to work in a startup team, validate ideas, problems and solutions and scale their business. Students will work on a startup project that develops throughout the term with weekly deliverables culminating in a public presentation on the Lean Startup Riot event.