The Social Innovation Startup Lab is a graduate level crash course in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, featuring hands-on incubator-style classes with dedicated mentorship from tech industry members, like Intel and NXP. It aims to explore the use of technology for sustainability and social good. During the semester, students will work in teams of up to 5 on a business challenge and apply various analyses and types of inquiries to develop technical and business solutions for community organizations.

Students gain expertise in Design Thinking, Customer Discovery, Business Model Development, Systems Thinking, Go-to-Market Strategy, among other tools, and refine their power skills. Organizations receive a team of well-prepared and independently mentored students to propose a consistent, validated solution tailored to their specific challenges and needs.

• See pics, testimonials, and more from previous years in the SISL Presentation.

• Students will develop a problem statement re-framed from the project challenge.
•  Learnings from customer discovery: customer pains and root causes of the problem.
• Development of customer journey map, stakeholder management and ecosystem mapping, as applicable
• Technical and business model proposed solutions presented over the course of three pitch sessions for client/organization validation.
• Initial low-resolution prototyping (service, physical, and virtual products) for solution scope validation.
• Final pitch presentation showcase: competition for eSeed grant to execute the proposed solution next step/milestone.