Technology Startup - Customer Discovery & Business Model Creation: 4 Part Series (1)

Event description

Topic: Technological Innovation

Are you developing a new technology or software? Participate in an immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of ideas/inventions to impact. Learn how to perform customer discovery to ensure a proper product-market fit. We will ask you to get out of your comfort zone and talk to customers. We use the Business Model Canvas methodology to begin the creation of your business model.

⭐IMPORTANT: This virtual program is designed for entrepreneurs/startups with a technology idea or technology product in current development. You will be sent a short survey prior to the training cohort. We are not looking for you to disclose your secret technology to us.

Cameras on!

*This registration will register you for the entire 4-part VIRTUAL workshop series.
Contact Jason Boudreaux (jboud55@lsu.edu) with any questions.

TENTATIVE AGENDA

SESSION 1 - 9/10/2026

5:00 Program Introduction: Quick Intros, Expectations, Goals & Objectives

5:15 Lecture: BMC and Customer Development

5:55 BREAK

6:00 Lecture: Best Practices for Customer Discovery

How to get, conduct, and record customer interviews;

Pro tips; Address Concerns and Challenges

6:55 Wrap and End

SESSION 2 - 9/17/2026

5:00 Opening remarks

5:10 Team Reports: (3 minutes presentation / 2 min Q&A)

5:35 Lecture: Introduction to Customer Segments

6:10 BREAK

6:15 Lecture: Value Proposition

7:00 End

SESSION 3 - 9/24/2026

5:00 Welcome Remarks

5:10 Team Reports

5:45 Break

5:50 Lecture: Customer Ecosystems

6:15 Workshop: Ecosystem Workshop

6:45 Wrap up: Q & A

SKIP A WEEK

SESSION 4 - 10/8/2026

5:00 Welcome Remarks

5:10 Final Team Reports

6:00 Lecture: Funding

6:50 Wrap up & END

Speaker(s): Jason Boudreaux, LSU Innovation Park

Andrew Schwarz, Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration

Jim Moss, LSU Southwest Hub I-Corps Program Manager

Jacob Clemmons

Co-Sponsor(s):  Economic Development Administration, National Science Foundation

  ⭐⭐⭐Please note: This workshop series is intended exclusively for technology-focused ideas.       ⭐⭐⭐If you have more than one team member, we ask that you each register separately with the same "Company/Team" name.

Fee: No Cost