Startup Week 2nd session ...

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Had my 2nd session at the Wacom location yesterday afternoon with the topic Visualisation as a Boost for Ideas. Great and intensive 3 hour session with a lot of interesting people, a really international audience, as the presentation language was English. Keeping in mind my 22-Feb-18 post "One picture says more than 1,000 words ...", the idea of the workshop was basically the same. Learn how to explain ideas easier in a drawing than with a lot of words and to come to a Visual elevator pitch for any kind of business idea.

If you have a pure text presentation people on average can remember 75% of the content at the end, it is just 10% after 3 days. When you have a combined text and visuals presentation, you have 85% and still 65% after 3 days. So Visualisation really makes a difference.

After learning how to quickly and easily draw some basic doodles, icons, sketches, visuals, etc., we did build a small team and selected a random problem to solve during the workshop. The creativity method we used was Disney’s Creative Strategy: Playing The Dreamer, The Realist and The Critic roles in several iterations (see for more details  http://www.designorate.com/disneys-creative-strategy/).

With the results of this session we did prepare the Visual elevator pitch after a small dinner break.

Due to time constraints we did focus on some easy parts:

• What is the target group for the pitch?
• What is the #1 result, to achive out of the solution?
• What are the dreams, wishes, desires of the target group (assuming no limits)?
  • more money, save money
  • solve problems
  • being more effective
  • what stops you of being there?
• What is your company doing?
• What are the benefits of your solution?
  • related to money
  • related to emotions
  • related to physical (power for example)
  • related to spiritual (e.g. be part of an interest group)

Some supporting material below:

• Slideshare: The visual elevator pitch                      https://www.slideshare.net/LouiseKlinker/the-visual-elevator-pitch
• How To Create A Great Investor Pitch Deck For Startups Seeking Financing  https://www.forbes.com/sites/allbusiness/2017/03/04/how-to-create-a-great-investor-pitch-deck-for-startups-seeking-financing/#61e54be72003 
• 41 Brilliant Elevator Pitches That Will Inspire You to Write Your Own  https://www.levo.com/posts/41-brilliant-elevator-pitches-that-will-inspire-you-to-write-your-own