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<p>We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>BIO</strong>: SHOWCASE vending machines are a platform for brands to trade products for feedback. Consumers get free items, in exchange for a quick survey, and brands get targeted, quality, in-moment data.</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><strong>TEAM MEMBERS:</strong>&#160;DANA KIM (WG’20)</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><strong>ADDITIONAL LINKS:&#160;</strong><a href="https://www.showcaseinsights.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>WEBSITE</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Students need to perform a financial analysis of a one-time purchase, create a timeline to determine if the order can be completed on time, and use cash budgeting skills to aid in their decision.

<p>Emily recently hosted a Q&amp;A session in the Being Boss Community, and now we're publishing her answers in a two-part series. In this first episode, Emily tackles navigating uneasy feelings around onboarding a contractor into your top-secret processes, how to overcome overwhelm as a multi-passionate and totally prolific creative, how to maintain company culture as a remote team, how to determine the most important metrics to track in your business, and how to cold call like a boss. <br><br>This episode is sponsored by <a href="http://freshbooks.com/beingboss">Freshbooks Cloud Accounting</a> and <a href="https://acuityscheduling.com/beingboss">Acuity Scheduling</a>.<br><br><a href="https://beingboss.club/podcast/q-and-a-part-1">Get full show notes for this episode here</a><br><br>---<br><br>Follow Being Boss on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beingbossclub/">@beingbossclub</a><br>Follow Being Boss on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/beingbossclub">@beingbossclub</a><br>Follow Being Boss on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/beingbossclub/">facebook.com/beingbossclub</a></p>

Humans have always looked to nature for design inspiration. Naming of this concept was first done in the 1950’s by American biophysicist Otto Schmitt when used the term "Biomimetics". Janine Benyus popularized Biomimicry in her 1997 book [Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature](https://www.amazon.com/Biomimicry-Innovation-Inspired-Janine-Benyus/dp/0060533226). Biomimicry is defined in the book as a "new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems." Biomimicry allows designers to solve complex problems using inspiration from the natural world. Organisms have withstood the test of time and have perfected their processes through natural selection. This method allows designers to utilize that knowledge. #### Related Methods [Life Cycle Analysis](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/312), [D4S (Design for Sustainability)](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/330), [The Natural Step](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/329), [Whole Systems Thinking](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/331)

Build resiliency into your organizational structure to be prepared for the unexpected.

A collection of essays, images, and definitions describing Hinduism in America and the Hindu Experience.

A design journal functions as a daily record where the investigator saves facts and discoveries about a particular area of interest. The journal gives the investigator a place to collect comparisons and relationships about their area of interest while backing it up with facts, data, or experiences. Generally, a design journal is a place where designers keep their reflections, observations, and ideas as relevant to a project. Some of these terms assume or overtly state that the design journal should take the form of a physical, tangible notebook which contains dated entries of all your notes, sketches, doodles, and any other record of your thoughts and activities related to your design projects. Motivations to keep design journals 1. Documentation for intellectual property Some companies require design journals to be signed and dated by a manager, or in some cases officially notarized. They are gathered as the official proof of the ideation process in applying for patents or defending intellectual property in court. 2. Mobility Generally, designers are not bound to their CAD stations and instead regularly engage in mobile collaboration with their peers. The journals provide a communication channel with engineers, supervisors, and clients. Since these activities occur away from designer's desk, it is important the journals are mobile. 3. Centralized personal information storage The design journal must accommodate the designer inputting a wide range of information, such as textual information (such as calculations, written notes, or contact details), graphical information (such as sketches, charts, or CAD), and text and graphical information (such as annotated drawings and memoranda). 4. Support for reflection

<p>We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>BIO:</strong> Pawsitive is a pet wellness community in an app.</li><li><strong>TEAM MEMBERS:</strong>&#160;SAMAYA SINHA (IPD’20); ECHO WAN (IPD’21)</li><li><strong>ADDITIONAL LINKS:&#160;</strong><a href="https://pawsitiveapp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>WEBSITE</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Instructional training videos from the UC Berkeley Haas Business School's Lean Launchpad class. Features faculty guidance in response to student examples.

*Related methods*: 9 Dimensions Framework, Ax4 Model, Bringing the Outside In, [POSTA](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/209), [POEMS](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/77) <br> "AEIOU" is mnemonic device to help researchers remember to pay attention to, document, and code five types of data while conducting other information gathering techniques (notes, photos, etc.). Each one of the letters corresponds to a category: Activities, Environments, Interactions, Objects, and Users. It's important to also pay attention to the interactions between elements as they are not completely independent of each other.

Startup companies need to purchase equipment, rent offices, and hire staff. More importantly, they need to grow. In almost every case they will require outside capital to do these things. The initial capital raised by a company is typically called “seed” capital. This brief guide is a summary of what startup founders need to know about raising the seed funds critical to getting their company off the ground.

Image Source: [Rosenfeld Media](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rosenfeldmedia/3344341528) Closed Card Sorting is a variation of card sorting where respondents are asked to group cards into predefined categories to reveal the degree to which participants agree on which cards belong under each category. Closed sorting is evaluative and is typically used to judge whether a given set of category names provides an effective way to organize a given collection of content.

A critique offers a forum for a design and research team to facilitate constructive feedback from a group of outside reviewers. Originally used in the art tradition, critiques are a useful tool for designers to receive feedback that highlights areas that need further improvement or exploration. #### Related Methods [Sketch Boards](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/260)

Web of Abstraction is a tool used for the exploration of the challenges associated with a particular problem or idea. By continuously asking two questions, "Why is this a challenge?", and "What is stopping me?", you end up examining the problem from multiple views and varying levels of abstraction. Doing this enables you to dismantle assumptions and generate new solutions. #### Related Methods [Why-How Laddering](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/337)

<p>We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>BIO:</strong> Frutero is a premium quality, tropical fruit ice cream company with flavors including Mango, Guava, Passion Fruit Guanabana, and Coconut. Frutero is made from 100% real fruits grown in Colombia and Thailand, and the best dairy from Pennsylvania.</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><strong>TEAM MEMBERS:</strong>&#160;MICHAEL WEBER (WG’20), VEDANT SABOO (WG’20)</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><strong>ADDITIONAL LINKS:</strong>&#160;<a href="https://www.fruteroicecream.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a></li></ul><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

Recent college grads working in tech, Sade Ayinde, Victor Jones and Alston Clark, share their insights on thriving in a world where constant learning is necessary.

Instructional training videos from the UC Berkeley Haas Business School's Lean Launchpad class. Features faculty guidance in response to student examples

Card Sorting asks participants to organize cards with words and images in ways that make sense to them. Given enough independent participants, analysis of the results can reveal patterns of the general user group. Card Sorting can be used to understand which perspectives users value most, to help structure information intuitively, or to reveal users' preferences, values, and understanding. ### Related Methods [Hierarchical Card Sorting](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/186) [Single-Criterion Card Sorting](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/219) [Closed Card Sorting](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/150) [Open Card Sorting](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/199) [Q Sort](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/211)

Instructional training videos from the UC Berkeley Haas Business School's Lean Launchpad class. Features faculty guidance in response to student examples

*Related methods*: 9 Dimensions Framework, Ax4 Model, Bringing the Outside In, [POSTA](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/209), [AEIOU](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/139) "POEMS" is a mnemonic name for an observation framework, reminding researchers to pay attention to specific pieces of information. Each of these categories of information are represented by a letter: People, Objects, Environments, Messages, Services. Researchers then organize their observations under each of the appropriate headings. P - People O - Objects E - Environments M - Messages S - Services

A design roadmap is a canvas that allows design teams strategically visualize and map out user experience design elements over time. This new approach creates roadmaps driven by innovations from the perspective of future customers, instead of solely by technology projections. The set of design roadmapping processes introduces its concept, frameworks, and steps used to identify anticipated product concepts through a human-centered design approach. In this exercise, participants will have an opportunity to form teams of 3-5 participants to create a design roadmap on a topic either brought by a workshop facilitator or by participants. Participants expect to learn a hands-on rapid roadmap prototyping process. The design roadmapping workshop will utilize tangible games, as well as digital templates and worksheets for immersive, group-based learning. #### Related Methods [Era Analysis](<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/62">https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/62</a>), Technology Roadmapping, Product Roadmapping

MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber talks about economic externalities, and how they are illustrated in an episode of the Simpsons.

One-on-one interviews provide information about an individual's actions and motivations. They are conducted by a trained moderator with a single respondent in person, or over the phone or video chat. Sessions normally last 1-2 hours and will often involve participants being shown stimulus to inform discussion and may include interactive techniques, e.g. role play scenarios.

This method is still under construction.<br><br>TRIZ is an acronym for the Russian: "theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks". TRIZ was initially developed by the Soviet inventor Genrich Altshuller (1926-1998) and his colleagues in 1946. Since then many researchers and private firms have expanded on this original research and have developed online TRIZ databases over thousands of patents in a wide range of fields. The basic idea is that technological systems evolve over time to overcome apparent contradictions. The TRIZ matrix highlights 40 principles that have overcome these contradictions in the past. Online TRIZ databases allow designers to type in functional contradictions and receive suggestions for the most relevant principles that might give strategic approaches to overcoming the contradictions. The classic example is how to make a product that is strong AND light weight. This is an apparent contradiction as we tend to think that we must add more mass to make a product stronger. TRIZ would suggest the following for principles in order of their relevance for how this problem has been solved in the past. <br><br><ul><li>40 Composites: Change from uniform to composite (multiple) materials.&nbsp;</li><li>26 Copy: Instead of an unavailable, expensive, fragile object, use simpler and inexpensive copies.&nbsp;</li><li>27 Cheap, Disposable: Replace an inexpensive object with a multiple of inexpensive objects, comprising certain qualities (such as service life, for instance)</li><li>1 Segmentation: Divide an object into parts or increase the degree of fragmentation or segmentation.<br></li></ul>

What can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They "slow-motion multitask," actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes -- without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Crichton found their inspiration and productivity through cross-training their minds.

<p>We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>BIO: </strong>Mobility seeks to mobilize the large population of economically-restricted individuals in South Africa to complete deliveries of chronic medicines from pharmacies to individual households in order to tackle the medical last-mile challenge.</li><li><strong>TEAM MEMBERS:</strong>&#160;YIWEN LI (C’21, W’21); JACOB CHIDAWAYA (ENG’23); ARIS SAXENA (W’21); SONIA SHAH (C’22); EASH AGGARWAL (C’21)</li><li><strong>ADDITIONAL LINKS:&#160;</strong><a href="https://mobilityhealth.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>WEBSITE</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

This chapter focuses on a fundamental dilemma for entrepreneurs: How to identify your customer or market, or in this case, your readers, viewers or listeners. To develop a successful media company, entrepreneurs must know who the audience is and how to reach it. Making the exercise a bit more tricky today is that the customer for news and information is very different than in the past. Influenced by an ever-evolving media ecosystem, today’s audience or customers are not just in a single place. They hang out on social media, use smartphones or gaming devices, or even watch streamed programming on television, sometimes all at once. Understanding the new media ecosystem will help entrepreneurs to understand who they are trying to reach, the scope of their business venture, and how to best allocate financial and human resources.

Customer journey maps provide a visualization of users' interaction experiences. The customer journey map describes the journey of a user by including the different touchpoints that characterize his or her interaction with the product or service. #### Related Methods [A Day in the Life](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/57), [Service Blueprint](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/27) Image Source: [Jenny Cham](https://www.flickr.com/photos/97823772@N02/15410073995)

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There are seven circular steps to running hypothesis-driven and validated learning experiments using an MVP.

Sit down with your team and map out what Success looks like. Setting key milestones will keep you on course and give you something to work toward. You’ll determine important milestones in the life of your solution and come to understand what succeeding looks like. Think about a variety of time horizons. This resource page also shows what the time needed for this activity, the level of difficulty, the materials needed and participants required.

An emerging literature focuses on learning from failures — both in terms of entrepreneurship and strategy more broadly. For some recent examples, see studies by Ariño and de la Torre (1998), Eggers (2012), and Kim & Miner (2007). It might appear that learning from success should be taken for granted — the actor has done something well and will naturally repeat the behavior.

If you need new ideas, brainstorming is usually the first method that comes to mind. But brainstorming tends to block creativity rather than enhance it. The solution is something Adam Grant calls ""brain writing,"" a freeform list of several different ideas that are written, then shared and explored in a group. The way to reach the most creative ideas, he says, is through quantity, not quality. Author of New York Times bestsellers Give and Take, Originals, and Option B (with Sheryl Sandberg), Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for six straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives.

Spectrum mapping is designed to reveal the diversity of perspectives and options around any given topic and to organize them into a meaningful spectrum. The perspectives/opinions (of the team, or of research subjects) regarding a topic are put on sticky notes and then organized to show the range (i.e., spectrum) of perspectives.

In this chapter, we explore international perspectives in entrepreneurship, how the startup “fever” captured the minds and souls of innovators across Europe and around the globe, and how leading cities are growing as startup and innovation ecosystems. While this section is titled entrepreneurship abroad, the preliminary chapter focuses on entrepreneurship in Europe. (This chapter will be expanded to other continents for Version 2.) We also look into how Silicon Valley has provided the prototype of scalable success and startup ecosystems which others in the world have tried either to differentiate from or emulate. This U.S. West Coast model built a world-leading innovation ecosystem attracting talent, funding, and resources. Media innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives and startups are presented in the context of the broader global focus on entrepreneurs leading both change and solutions to global and local challenges that impact twenty-first-century interconnected societies. Activities will help you to take the lead in implementing and learning more from your own experience and experimentation.