Prototyping, testing, networking and more!

What can you build out of a bunch of cardboard, tape, paper and pens? The answer: a lot!

This week our teams learned how to build prototypes with simple materials to visualize their ideas. Thereby they found out how to reduce the costs of failing by putting the most critical assumptions into the prototype and see if they were true or false. On top of that, prototyping helps to build a common understanding of the idea within the team.
For the participants this is a very important step of the journey because many startups struggle at this point. Sometimes it even takes them months. That’s why at Startup Class they’re building a prototype in just a few days and go straight into the market for testing.

To get some more insights into the world of entrepreneurship we also had some amazing speakers coming over: Dr. Jessica Di Bella visited us on Thursday (5th September) and shared some inspiring thoughts about entrepreneurship and self-leadership with the participants. On Friday Christoph Sollich aka "The Pitch Doctor" came by. He’s helped 1.200+ startups pitch better and is a mentor for dozens of accelerators, incubators and startup competitions.

A major highlight this week was also Startupnight Berlin: The participants got exclusive free tickets from Deutsche Telekom to attend this important event - what a great opportunity to collect some business cards and dive deep into the Berlin startup ecosystem.

Thanks a lot to CityLAB Berlin for hosting us! It was great to stay in a historic place like this.