Curriculum
Validate the Opportunity
Life Science Venture Validation & Investor Readiness
TRANSLATE YOUR RESEARCH INTO A CREDIBLE VENTURE
This course guides you from understanding the customer problem to DEVELOPING a business model, ASSESSING your market, and PLANNING how to test the assumptions behind your idea.
Apply each lesson to your own project and BUILD YOUR BUSINESS CASE STEP BY STEP.
NO PRIOR BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED.
WORK TOWARD A CLEAR DECISION
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Could your research become the foundation of a viable business?
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What would it take for your idea to succeed?
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What evidence would help you decide whether to move forward?
THE GOAL of this course is to help you develop a BUSINESS CASE—how your idea could become a viable business—and an informed VENTURE VALUATION—what your venture could be worth today.
Together, they help you decide what to pursue, what to change, and what to investigate next.
A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO INVESTOR READINESS
Investor readiness begins with UNDERSTANDING YOUR OPPORTUNITY and being clear about the EVIDENCE BEHIND it.
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The problem you aim to solve and whom it affects.
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Why your solution could offer meaningful value.
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How your business will make money.
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What resources and funding your next milestones require.
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Which risks and assumptions remain unresolved.
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How you plan to gather the evidence needed to move forward.
This course will help you prepare to RAISE VENTURE CAPITAL AND APPLY FOR GRANTS by developing and validating your business case, defining key milestones and value-inflection points, assessing your funding needs, and estimating your venture’s value.